Adolf Rhomberg

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Adolf Rhomberg
The Adolf Rhomberg House on Marktstrasse in Dornbirn was designed around 1900 by the architect Hanns Kornberger (postcard around 1905)

Adolf Rhomberg (born March 23, 1851 in Dornbirn ; † September 7, 1921 at Hofen Castle near Lochau ) was a textile entrepreneur. From 1890 to 1918 he was governor of Vorarlberg .

Life

Adolf Rhomberg comes from a family of manufacturers in Dornbirn. He was a partner in the oldest Austrian textile factory, the Herrburger-Rhomberg company . His parents were Eduard and Luise Rhomberg. From 1871 to 1875 he studied law in Innsbruck and Freiburg . In Innsbruck, Adolf Rhomberg married Anna Kogler in 1875. The marriage remained childless. Rhomberg was buried in the Capuchin Church of St. Joseph - which he founded in 1894 - in the center of Dornbirn .

In 1868 he was the founder and first senior of the academic regional association Vorarlbergia Innsbruck ; In 1877 he was a member of the preliminary fraternity of the Suevia Innsbruck fraternity . He began his political activities in 1876 as a member of the Dornbirn municipal council as a member of the Catholic-Conservative Party. In 1880 he was elected to the board of the Vorarlberg State Archives. Rhomberg was protector of the CV connection Saxo-Bavaria Prague and honorary member of Carolina Graz .

On September 21, 1890, Adolf Rhomberg was appointed governor of Vorarlberg by Emperor Franz Joseph I. He held this position until the end of the monarchy in 1918.

On November 3, 1918, eight days before Emperor Karl I abdicated, the provisional state assembly, chaired by Adolf Rhomberg, met again for the first time since the First World War and Vorarlberg's declaration of independence was approved by all 30 members.

Awards

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 190-191.
  • R. Hämmerle:  Rhomberg Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 114.
  • Karin Schneider: "So he tried to be useful, also a lot in public life". The memoirs of Vorarlberg Governor Adolf Rhomberg. Edition and commentary (=  Vorarlberger Landesarchiv [Hrsg.]: Sources on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 5 (NF)). Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : The Vorarlberg State Archives - Founding and Development 1898–1920 . In: Karl Heinz Burmeister and Alois Niederstätter (eds.): Archive and history. 100 Years of the Vorarlberg State Archive (= Vorarlberg State Archive [Hrsg.]: Research on the history of Vorarlberg . Volume 3 (NF)). Universitätsverlag Konstanz , Konstanz 1998, ISBN 978-3-87940-636-4 ( full text as PDF on the website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv). Full text as PDF ( memento of the original from September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  2. ^ Vorarlberg Chronicle: Adolf Rhomberg (1851–1921)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vol.at  
  3. ↑ From the history of the Landtag
  4. ↑ a b c Awarding ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 27 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Rhomberg, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian textile entrepreneur and governor of Vorarlberg
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1921
Place of death Hofen Castle near Lochau