Posjedi obitelji Thurn Taxis nakon 1918. godine

master's thesis

• Title (english): Thurn Taxis Estates in Croatia after First World War
• Author: Stjepan Prusac
• Mentor: Ivica Šute (mentor)
• Committee member: Goran Hutinec (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of History); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2023-09-25, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; History; Croatian and World Modern and Contemporary History

Abstract

Obitelj Thurn Taxis, njemačko- talijanska obitelj koja se obogatila razgranatom poštanskom
mrežom uspostavljenom još u srednjem vijeku bila je najveći privatni veleposjednik u Kraljevini
SHS, kasnije Jugoslaviji. Nakon Prvog svjetskog rata velika većina privatnih posjeda našla se na
meti agrarne reforme pa tako i posjedi obitelji Thurn i Taxis. Tadašnja glava obitelji, Albert
Maria Lamoral Thurn i Taxis, nije htio svoje bogate posjede predati bez borbe. Naime, u
njegovom posjedu nalazilo se golemo prostranstvo šumske površine, a drvna industrija bila je
jedna od najunosnijih u tadašnjoj Jugoslaviji. U toj borbi knez Thurn Taxis koristio se različitim
sredstvima te, između ostalog, iskoristio koruptivni element kojeg je u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji bilo
na odmet. Slijedom toga, u ovom radu će se prezentirati ekonomska povijest tadašnje Kraljevine,
akumulirani posjedi obitelji Thurn i Taxis te sudbina nekih od tih posjeda za vrijeme agrarne
reforme. Veliki se naglasak stavlja upravo na metode kojima se knez Albert poslužio, ali i na
koruptivni element Kraljevsta bez kojeg knez u svojoj borbi vrlo vjerojatno ne bi ni uspio

Abstract (english)

Thurn Taxis family, a German- Italian family that accumulated large amount of wealth thanks to
the vast post network established in the Middle ages, was one of the largest private estate owners
in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, or what was later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After
the First World War the Thurn Taxis estates, as well as most of the other private estates, were the
target of the agrarian reform. Fürst Albert Lamoral Maria Thurn Taxis, head of the family at the
time, didn’t want to give his estates without a fight. His estates encompassed a large amount of
forests and the wood industry was one of the most lucrative ones in Yugoslavia. In his fight,
Fürst Albert Thurn Taxis used a wide array of tactics, namely the corruptive element of
Yugoslavija which at the time was abundant. This paper will present the economic history of
Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia, accumulated estates of the Thurn Taxis family as well as their fate
during the agrarian reform. Big emphasis is put on the methods which the Prince used as well as
the corruption in Kingdom of Yugoslavia because the Princes’ fight would probably have been
for nothing without it

• Keywords: agrarna reforma; korupcija; plemstvo
• Keywords (english): agrarian reform; corruption; nobility
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:511295
• Study programme: Title: History; specializations in: Research, Teaching; Course: Teaching; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije povijesti (magistar/magistra edukacije povijesti)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-09-26 17:40:42