Albert Richter (politician, 1843)

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Albert Richter (born November 1, 1843 in Chotzen , Bohemia , Austrian Empire , † March 3, 1897 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and liberal politician. From 1885 to 1896 he was a member of the Vienna City Council and from 1890 to 1896 a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag . From 1891 he was also second, from 1892 first vice mayor of the city of Vienna.

Life

Richter attended a Viennese grammar school and the Stiftsgymnasium Melk in Lower Austria. 1862-1866 he studied law at the University of Vienna , in 1872 he graduated as Dr. jur. In 1868/69 he did his legal practice , in 1869 he joined the office of the later mayor Johann Nepomuk Prix as a trainee ( trainee lawyer) . In 1875 he became court and court advocate and started his own business. In 1885 he became a disciplinary councilor at the Vienna Chamber of Lawyers.

From 1885 to 1896 he was a member of the Vienna City Council, where he was a member of the then majority parliamentary group, the Liberal Progress Club under the mayors Eduard Uhl and Prix. His greatest merits as a member of the municipal council lay in the areas of city expansion and the development of the water supply. In the Lower Austrian state parliament he was from October 14, 1890 to October 14, 1896 a member of the cities (Vienna I). In the debate about the incorporation of Viennese suburbs in 1891, as the responsible speaker in the state parliament, he was the spokesman for the liberals and as such an opponent of Karl Lueger . In the same year he was first second as protégé of Mayor Johann Nepomuk Prix, then in 1892 first deputy mayor.

After Prix's unexpected death in 1894 and the poor performance of the Liberals in the municipal council elections on May 14, 1895 - with a narrow majority, ten members of their parliamentary group sympathized with the anti-Semites or were considered unreliable - Richter developed a politically controversial faction for the new mayor Raimund Grübl Strategy. Accordingly, the members of the Liberal Club should all resign from their offices in the city administration in order to bring about new elections. There was no doubt that the Christian Socials would win even more votes, but it was expected that their leader, Karl Lueger, would not be able to rule the city or would fail. When the municipal council met on May 14, 1895 to confirm Richter as vice mayor, he immediately rejected the election. In the second ballot, Lueger was elected with the help of liberal dissenters and took office. Grübl resigned on the same day. On May 29, Lueger was elected First Mayor, but did not accept the election, so that governor Erich Kielmansegg dissolved the municipal council and appointed civil servant Hans von Friebeis as acting head of the city administration.

The election campaign, which lasted until the new elections in Vienna at the end of September 1895, was extremely tough and dirty. Richter, who had been elected the top candidate by his parliamentary group, was attacked particularly hard. The anti-Semitic propaganda aimed primarily at the fact that he was married to a Jewish woman and also had no denomination. Kielmansegg and Prime Minister Windisch-Grätz also indicated that Richter would not have a chance to be confirmed as mayor by the Kaiser due to his lack of denomination. The fact that Richter re-entered the Catholic Church only opened up new areas for attack for the opposition. Richter eventually withdrew from the candidacy. In the end, the Christian Socialist Josef Strobach became mayor, followed by Lueger after only one year. The era of the liberal mayors of Vienna, which lasted more than four decades, was over.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John W. Boyer: Karl Lueger (1844-1910). Christian social politics as a profession . Böhlau, Vienna 2010, p. 161ff.
  2. ^ Felix Czeike: Vienna and its mayors . Vienna 1974, p. 336f.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and liberal politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Chotzen , Bohemia , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1897
Place of death Vienna