Alexander von Peez

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Alexander von Peez

Alexander von Peez (born January 19, 1829 in Wiesbaden , † January 12, 1912 in Weidling (municipality of Klosterneuburg) , Lower Austria) was a German-Austrian politician and industrialist.

Life

Born as the son of the Wiesbaden fountain and bath doctor August Heinrich Peez (1785–1847) and his wife Marie, b. Weinrich, Alexander Peez attended grammar school in Aschaffenburg and Wiesbaden and studied law in Heidelberg , Göttingen , Munich and Prague. In Heidelberg he was a member of the Corps Nassovia and in January 1849 was one of the founders of the Corps Rhenania .

Peez obtained his doctorate in Göttingen. jur. At the end of the 1850s he went to Austria and was initially editor of the Reichenberger Zeitung in Reichenberg (Bohemia). In 1864 he took over the function of General Secretary of the Association of Industrialists. He was the official reporter at the world exhibitions in Paris in 1867 and Vienna in 1873 . In 1874 Peez was one of the co-founders of the Association of the Mining, Iron and Machine Industry in Austria. From 1875 he was secretary of the Industrial Club (1891–99 and 1904/05 its president). Peez himself entered the manufacturing industry in 1886 with the establishment of a cellulose factory on the family estate in Weißenbach an der Enns.

From 1876 to 1885 he was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives for the Reichenberg Chamber of Commerce , and from 1890 to 1895 for the Leoben Chamber of Commerce. In 1902 he was appointed a lifelong member of the Austrian manor house .

Peez was also active as a journalist and as a völkisch opinion leader and author of the magazine Hammer in the late 19th century. The magazine was about the central organ of the nationalist anti-Semitism , even in some other works Peez 'there are anti-Semitic elements, such as the book published in 1905 , the tasks of the Germans in Austria , the Peez near a later Hitler moved -Vertrauten and anti-Semitic groups. England and the continent are also said to contain anti-English elements.

Peez was also Vice President of the Society of Austrian Economists, curator of the Austrian Museum of Commerce , member of the State Railway Council and founder of the Vienna People's Education Association (1887), when he created the first public municipal libraries in Austria. He also rendered services to the establishment of the Postsparkasse, the central bank of the German savings banks, the expansion of the Bohemian railway network and the renovation of the First Danube Steamship Company . In 1903 he suggested the building of the House of Industry in Vienna on Schwarzenbergplatz .

Peez was buried in the Weidlinger Friedhof .

Honors

Alexander Peez was raised to hereditary nobility in 1889. In 1910 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin.

In 1926, Peezgasse in Vienna- Döbling (19th district) was named after him.

Fonts

  • Germany at the turning point in its history. Wiesbaden 1859.
  • The Germans in the past and the future: a patriotic fantasy. Goettingen 1859.
  • Seven commercial letters from England. Leipzig 1863.
  • Austria and the Orient. 1875.
  • Customs treaty with Germany or economic autonomy? Vienna 1879.
  • The Economic Value of Inland Waterways. 1880.
  • The American competition. 1881.
  • The diet of the Austrian workers. 1886.
  • On the history of cellulose fabrication 1848-1888. 1888.
  • The routes to India and the Anglo-Indian post. Vienna 1888.
  • Customs policy negotiations between the German Reich and Austria. Vienna 1890.
  • Austrian trade policy for the past twenty-five years. Leipzig 1892.
  • To the latest trade policy. Vienna 1895.
  • The position of our railways in world trade. Leipzig u. ao J.
  • Germanistic thoughts in the service of the present. Munich 1903.
  • Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. Berlin 1904.
  • The tasks of the Germans in Austria. 1905.
  • The significance of Friedrich List for the present. Vienna 1906.
  • The yellow peril in the history of Europe. 1908.
  • England and the continent. 1909/10.
  • England's supremacy. 1912.
  • Experienced and hiked. 1914.
  • Europe from a bird's eye view. 1916.
  • England's role in the Middle East. 3. Edition. Fromme, Vienna / Leipzig 1917.

literature

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  1. ^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 290, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ↑ Weidling parish cemetery book. (PDF) Weidling Parish, December 25, 2018, accessed on March 22, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Peez, Alexander von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1912
Place of death Weidling (municipality of Klosterneuburg)