Alexander von Dorn
Alexander Dorn Ritter von Marwalt (born February 9, 1838 in Wiener Neustadt , † January 1, 1919 in Vienna ) was an Austrian economist, publicist and local politician.
Life
Alexander Dorn first attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna . At the age of 20 he got a job in the kk state administration. The following year he volunteered as a lieutenant in the campaign to Italy . On the occasion of an exhibition in Constantinople in 1863, the Ministry of Commerce entrusted him with the official reporting; In addition to his reports to the Austrian government, Dorn published his personal impressions in 1864 under the title "The National Exhibition in Constantinople 1863".
Until 1868 Dorn was employed in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce. He then took over the editing of the economic section of the Pester Lloyd and in 1872 the editing of the Triester Zeitung , in which he represented Austrian commercial interests and defended the Austrian constitutional concept in the most liberal direction.
At the opening of the Austrian exhibition in Trieste was of separatists a bomb attack perpetrated. Dorn was badly wounded and cuffed to the sickbed for almost a year.
Since the end of 1883 he lived in Vienna as the owner and editor of the “Volkswirtschaftliche Wochenschrift”, in which specialist journal he advocates the principles of free trade and personal responsibility towards protective tariff and state socialist currents. At the congress of German economists , of which he has been a permanent deputation since 1868, Dorn particularly vigorously emphasized the common interests of Austria and the German Reich.
family
The progenitor of the noble family is Franz Dorn, who was a noble valet in Vienna in 1800. His son Josef Dorn (* 1800, † January 3, 1880 in Laibach ) was kk Oberfinanzrat and on October 31, 1869 was raised to the Austrian knighthood "von Marwalt". His son Alexander comes from his marriage to Marie Dorn von Marwalt, b. Walter. Since 1876 he was married to the writer Paula Dorn von Marwalt (born June 15, 1842 in Arad , née Hertschka), who also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Andor , which the actor Wolfgang Zilzer later used again.
Works (selection)
- Tasks of the Eisenhahnpolitik , Berlin 1874
- Navy and Economics , Vienna 1884
- Maintenance and promotion of commercial progress by the government in Württemberg , Vienna 1868
- On the export issue , Vienna 1864
- (with Josef von Lehnert and others): The sea ports of world traffic. 2 vols. Dorn, Vienna 1891/1892
- Vol. 1. Ports of Europe and the Asian and African coasts of the Mediterranean basin. Dorn, Vienna 1891 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
- Vol. 2. Ports outside Europe and the Mediterranean basin. Dorn, Vienna 1891 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive ).
literature
- Mandrel 3). In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 5. Leipzig 1906, pp. 135 f. ( zeno.org )
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 234, No. 1803 (wrong year of death 1905!).
- Dr. Alexander von Dorn-Marwalt. In: Stefan Leichtfried: Political elites in the Austrian monarchy using the example of the Vienna chairman conference 1914-1918 . Vienna, University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Diploma thesis 2009, p. 30 f. ( online ; PDF; 1.5 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in the Laibacher Zeitung No. 3 of January 5, 1880, p. 20 ( online ).
- ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Vol. 61, Glücksburg: Starke 1975, p. 3.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dorn, Alexander von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dorn, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian economist and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiener Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 1, 1919 |
| Place of death | Vienna |