Századok – 2014
TANULMÁNYOK - Deák Ágnes: Forradalmár emigránsok nyomában - a bécsi rendőrség ügynökei külföldön az 1850-es években III/601
A BÉCSI RENDŐRSÉG ÜGYNÖKEI KÜLFÖLDÖN AZ 1850-ES ÉVEKBEN 623 Ssz Név Fedőnév Származási ország Állomáshely Alkalm kezd. 1850 jún. 1851 jan. 1851. jól. 1852. ápr. Havi fizetés (ezüstfrt) 58 Dr. Licht Frankfurt 1834 X 60 59 Perczel? N. P. Magyarország Kütahya, New York 1850. nyár X 100 60 Lórody L. Magyarország Kütahya, New York 1850. nyár X Forrás: AVA, Nachlass Bach, Kt. 26. Polizei:Staatspolizei IN THE TRACE OF REVOLUTIONARY EMIGREES. THE AGENTS OF THE VIENNESE POLICE ABROAD IN THE 1850s by Deák Agnes (Abstract) In the wake of the European revolutionary tide in 1848 the system of intelligence gathering that had been carefully built up by the Austrian state police was dissolved both at home and abroad. In April 1849 the Austrian government set about the task of its reorganisation outside the borders. The chief aim was to keep an eye on the Hungarian, Italian and Polish democratic emigration, and the observation of the international workers’ organisations, at first under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which supervised police matters until 1852, and under the direction of the so-called Chief Police Authority (Oberste Polizeibehörde) thereafter. The study examines in detail the organisational principles of this network of state police (with „lodges” or „chief agencies [Hauptagentur], „agencies [Agentur], independent correspondents [Korrespondent]), its leaders, and reconstructs on the basis of the lists of confidants which have survived from the period between the spring of 1850 and that of 1852 as part of the legacy of minister of home affairs Alexander Bach, the circle of persons who belonged to this intelligence network. It also deals with the results and limits of centralisation that was aimed at by baron Johann Kempen von Fichtenstamm, head of the Chief Police Authority after its establishment. The author also pays attention to the role and cooperation of foreign embassies and consulates in the work of information gathering. The study comes to the conclusion that while the intelligence network failed to meet all the expectations of its leaders, it did manage to provide the political decision-makers of the Empire continuously with more or les reliable information.
