Adolf Pilz

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Adolf Pilz (born July 10, 1877 in Vienna ; † September 23, 1947 there ) was an Austrian legal scholar , judge and politician .

Life

Adolf Pilz was born in Vienna on July 10, 1877. After completing general schooling, he studied law at the University of Vienna . In 1900 he entered the service of the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy. From 1923 to 1924 he was district captain of the Mödling district before he was replaced by Adalbert Pamperl . Before that, Pilz appeared in 1922 as district captain of Waidhofen an der Thaya . In 1924 he became district captain of Baden . There, the Councilor was also involved with the Austrian Red Cross by helping to set up the Baden office as district captain. When the 6th International Scout Guide Conference took place in Baden near Vienna in July 1931 , District Captain Pilz was listed as a member of the Honorary Committee. After more than ten years as district captain of Baden, he resigned from this office in 1934.

In addition, he appeared from 1930 to 1933 as a substitute member of the Austrian Constitutional Court . In May 1933 he resigned from his office with a number of other members of the Court of Justice, as a result of which the Constitutional Court no longer had a quorum, which ultimately resulted in its repeal.

He was then from 1934 to November 1936 in the Council of the Austrian Federal Court of Justice . After the then Federal Chancellor and Front Leader Kurt Schuschnigg had already planned his close confidante and friend Ignaz Tschurtschenthaler , who was considered hated by the nationalists, as the new Minister of Justice, Schuschnigg was changed after the threat of resignation from Federal Minister Edmund Glaise-Horstenau and appointed Adolf Pilz as the new Minister of Justice, who took office on November 3, 1936.

Pilz worked for the Catholic-conservative monthly for culture and politics published by Johannes Messner and published from 1936–1938.

In a questioning requested by the Gestapo on August 19, 1939 , Schuschnigg stated on September 2, 1939 that he had "never considered Tschurtschenthaler's appointment to the federal government". The reason for this statement was a request from Tschurtschenthaler's wife, stating that her husband was currently imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . Following the Berchtesgaden Agreement on February 12, 1938, Pilz had to resign from his position as Minister of Justice on February 15, 1938 after 470 days in office; he was followed on the following day by Ludwig Adamovich senior , the last minister of justice in the last Austrian government, Schuschnigg IV , which in turn resigned on March 11, 1938, at the beginning of the annexation of Austria .

Pilz was arrested at the beginning of the National Socialist regime and then dismissed from civil service without a pension.

After the war Pilz was President of the Austrian Red Cross before he was replaced in this position by Karl Seitz .

On September 23, 1947, Pilz died at the age of 70 after a long and serious illness in his apartment in Vienna and was buried six days later in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 17, group extension E, row 16, number 2). The right to use the grave is for the duration of the cemetery.

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government reshuffle in Austria. In:  The interesting sheet , November 12, 1936, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dib.
  2. ^ Stenographic minutes of the Lower Austrian Parliament, 1922
  3. ↑ a b c Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic: 1918–1938. Dept. 9, July 29, 1934 to March 11, 1938; Vol. 6, Cabinet Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, August 27, 1936 to November 4, 1936
  4. ^ History of the Baden Red Cross Office , accessed on October 22, 2019
  5. ^ 6th International Scout Guide Conference - Vienna - Baden, Austria, 1931 , accessed on October 22, 2019
  6. ↑ a b Erika Kustatscher : “Profession” or “Stand”? A key political term in Austria in the interwar period. Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna – Cologne – Weimar 2016, p. 570
  7. ^ Thomas Zavadil: The elimination of the Constitutional Court in 1933 . Vienna 1997 (diploma thesis in the humanities at the University of Vienna).
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Broucek : A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmung Glaises von Horstenau. Volume 2. Minister in the corporate state and general in the OKW. Böhlau Verlag , Vienna – Cologne – Graz 1983, pp. 130–131.
  9. ↑ a b c Former Justice Minister Dr. Mushroom died. In:  New Austria. Organ of the Democratic Unification , September 25, 1947, p. 3 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nos.
  10. ↑ a b Adolf Pilz in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at.
  11. ↑ Appointments and Awards. In:  Wiener Salonblatt , November 14, 1937, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsb.
personal data
SURNAME Pilz, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian legal scholar, judge and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1947
Place of death Vienna , Austria