Luigi Ossoinack. Born in Fiume, studied in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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, Graz

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 and Vienna

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

Trieste

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, Odessa

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, London and “North America”.

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

Liverpool

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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 Autonomist Party

Autonomist Party

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. Both Autonomist Party leaders Michele Maylender

Michele Maylender

Michele Maylender was a Hungarian politician who was the founder of the Autonomist Association, known also as Autonomist Party in Fiume....

 and Riccardo Zanella

Riccardo Zanella

Riccardo Zanella was the only elected president of the short lived Free State of Fiume.Zanella was born to an Italian father and Slovene mother in Rijeka, Austria-Hungary . He attended Hungarian Commercial School in Rijeka and Budapest. Soon he was professor of bookkeeping in the same school in...

 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

Andrea Ossoinack was a businessman and politician who became notable in the process of creating the Free State of Fiume.Andrea was the son of Luigi Ossoinack, who was one of the foremost businessmen in Fiume...

, 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.