Luigi Ossoinack (26 June 1849 – 29 October 1904). Born in

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, studied in

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and

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, where he graduated at the commercial academy. He practised trade in

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, London and North America. In 1873 he came back to Fiume, where he started his own maritime agency. His businesses expand uninterruptedly: in 1877 he opens the first regular line between Fiume and

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, and had direct influence on the institution of the Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Company "Adria",(1881). On his initiative the Magazzini Generali were opened in (1878), and he engaged also in industrial activities with the Rice mill in (1881), and an Oak Wine Barrels plant at Mlaka (1888), and the steam shipping company "Oriente" (1891), for trade with Asia. Luigi Ossoinack participated also in the first Hungarian oil refinery, established in Fiume in 1882, and was a company board member. Luigi Ossoinack had a decisive influence on the political life in Fiume, being the principal financial supporter of the fiuman

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. Both Autonomist Party leaders

Michele Maylender Michele Maylender ( hu, Maylender Mihály) (September 11, 1863 – 1911) was an Italian politician (inside the Hungarian Crown's states) who was the founder of the Autonomist Association, known also as Autonomist Party in Fiume. Michele Maylend ...

and

Riccardo Zanella Riccardo Zanella (27 June 1875 – 30 March 1959) was the only elected president of the short lived Free State of Fiume. Biography Zanella was born to an Italian father and Slovene mother in Fiume, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). He a ...

were actually his employees. In 1904, for unknown reasons, he committed suicide, leaving a vacuum in the political and economic life of the city, that was never healed again. His son

Andrea Ossoinack Andrea Ossoinack (1876-1965) was a businessman and politician who became notable in the process of creating the Free State of Fiume. Biography Andrea Ossoinack was the son of Luigi Ossoinack, one of the foremost businessmen in Fiume. He studied e ...

, last deputy from Fiume at the Hungarian parliament, claimed for his city the right of national self-determination, at the end of World War I.

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* 1849 births 1904 deaths Hungarian politicians 1904 suicides Suicides in Italy {{Hungary-politician-stub