Franz von Klebelsberg zu Thumburg

In 1798 he was made chamberlain and in 1800 'gubernialrat' (councillor) in Bohemia. In 1811 he was made director of the body which organised a dole of wood and bread to the poor in Prague and two years later director general of Bohemia's military hospitals. He was made vice-president of the Moravian-Silesian Region in 1825 and gubernium (equivalent to the modern post of deputy governor) of Bohemia in 1827. He was also made a privy councillor in 1827, then governor of Lower Austria the following year. He finally served as president of the Hofkammer from 1830 to 1834. In 1843 he became the third husband of the widow Amalie von Broesigke, mother of Ulrike von Levetzow, the last love of the poet Goethe.

• Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950. Band 3, 1964, S. 373.