Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin
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Count Karl, portrait by Josef Scheiwl, 1869
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| Spouse(s) | Countess Marie Berchtold, Baroness of Ungarschitz |
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Issue
Count Anton
Bohuslav, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin |
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Full name
Karl
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| Noble family | Chotek |
| Father | Johann Rudolf, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin |
| Mother | Countess Maria Sidonia of Clary and Aldringen |
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23 July 1783 Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy |
| Died | 18 December 1868 (aged 85) Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (Czech: Karel hrabě Chotek z Chotkova a Vojnína, German: Karl Graf Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin); (23 July 1783 – 18 December 1868) was an Austrian chancellor, Government President (Gubernialpräsident) and school reformer of Bohemia and honorary citizen of Innsbruck and Prague.
Karl was born at Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy, the sixth child and fifth son of Johann Rudolf, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin (1748–1824) and Countess Maria Sidonia of Clary and Aldringen (1748–1824).
Karl Graf Chotek studied law in Vienna and Prague. In 1803 he joined the civil service. From 1809 he was senior administrative posts in Moravia and successfully reorganized the Trieste district office, which is why in 1815 after the defeat of Joachim Murat's he became governor-general in the Kingdom of Naples.
In 1818, he came a Privy Councillor and Vice President for Tyrol, where he was governor of Tyrol and Vorarlberg in 1819.
Together with the mayor of the city of Innsbruck, Felix Adam of Riccabona, in 1822 he initiated the founding of the "Sparkasse Innsbruck" (now Tiroler Sparkasse) as the second bank in Austria (after the First Austrian Savings Bank).
In memory of one of its founders, the Tiroler Sparkasse awards in the 2-year cycle the "Count Chotek University Award", awarded at a very good degree and master's theses.
As state governor, he founded in Innsbruck a committee to establish a "Patriotic Museum for Tyrol", which later became Tyrolean State Museum also known as the Ferdinandeum. As early as 1800, Archduke John had the idea of this epochal project - as a "collection of all provincial products, which should serve as a model for the rest of the hereditary states.", as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, but it was not established until 1823, a decade after the Universalmuseum Joanneum was opened in Styria.
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