Franz von Hillenbrand

Who is Franz von Hillenbrand?

Franz von Hillenbrand was a Roman Catholic German aristocrat. He was born in Zolochiv, c. 1801, the Polish city that time was part of the Holy Roman Empire. His family migrated to the Galizien region from Augsburg in the late 18th century. It is unknown how many generations and members of the family lived in Galicia and what the reason was to choose the city as a new place for the family. The only known is that Franz von Hillenbrand left Zloczow in cca. 1841. He met Ernestine Emilia Johanna von Böckh, and got married on 21 August 1841 in Pozsony, the administrative center of Hungary that time. Both of them and their children lived in Wien-Alpenvorstadt, where Franz von Hillenbrand worked as an Imperial and Royal Accountant. Not so later, they moved back to Pozsony.

According to some reminiscences, he has a brother named Alexander von Hillenbrand. He also worked in Wien at the Secretariat of the Orden der Eisernen Krone.

It needs some researches to clarify the life of the von Hillenbrand family in Zolochiv. We cannot exclude the possibility of other brothers and sisters married and lived in Zolochiv after.