Alfred Gürtler

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Alfred Gürtler (born October 30, 1875 in Deutsch-Gabel in Northern Bohemia / Austria-Hungary , † March 15, 1933 in Laßnitzhöhe near Graz ) was an Austrian statistician , economist and politician .

origin

Alfred Gürtler was the eldest of six children of the factory owner Wilhelm Gürtler (1847–1912), son of Ignaz Gürtler (* 1802 in Tölzelsdorf (Tlustce) Gem. Gross-Walten (Velky Valtinov), district Deutsch-Gabel, 1829 founder of the weaving mill and Cotton goods company I. Gürtler in Deutsch-Gabel, died in 1870 ibid.), Who together with his brother August Heinrich Gürtler (died 1902) became heir and head of his father's business. Wilhelm Gürtler married Maria Schwab (* 1848 in Budapest, died on February 2, 1926 in Deutsch Gabel), daughter of a professor, from 1912 to 1926 independent manager of the I. Gürtler company in order to keep it as a family business. (see: Commemorative publication: 100 years of I. Gürtler Sons (1929))

Life

Alfred Gürtler attended high school in Leitmeritz and Böhmisch-Leipa , where he passed the Matura in 1895 . He then completed a degree in law and political science at the Universities of Prague , Chernivtsi and Graz . There he graduated in 1902 as Dr. jur. from. From 1903 to 1905 he was a research assistant at the Styrian State Statistical Office in Graz and from 1904 to 1909 private assistant to Ernst Mischler (1857–1912), Austrian structural engineer and economist. During his studies in 1894 he became a member of the Carolina Academic Fraternity in Prague .

From 1907 Alfred Gürtler was a private lecturer and from 1911 an unpaid associate professor of statistics and Austrian financial law, from 1919 a full professor of financial law, statistics and political science at Graz .

In 1907 he failed as a candidate for the German People's Party in the Reichsrat elections , but was still politically active for the German Nationals. In 1919 he moved to the Christian Social Camp.

Christian social politician

As advisor of the chancellor Karl Renner in the Austrian Delegation to the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the Austria-Hungarian Empire Alfred Gürtler was from 1919 to 1920 for the Christian Social Party (Austria) a member of the Constituent National Assembly and was until 1930 a deputy in the National Council .

Under the federal government of Schober I and Schober II , he was Austrian Federal Minister of Finance from 1921 to 1922 . From 1926 to 1927 he was Governor of Styria and from 1928 to 1930 Christian Social President of the National Council .

Private

Alfred Gürtler married Irene Miglitz (1892–1983), a daughter of the Imperial Medical Council and owner of the sanatorium in Laßnitzhöhe Eduard Miglitz , in the Evangelical Parish of Graz on September 14, 1912 . The three daughters Liselotte (1913–2003), a doctor, married to the doctor Karl Tritthart (1905–1974), Annemarie (1915–1973) and Magdalene (1921–1977), medical-technical assistant, married to the marriage Doctor N. Peters.

Publications (selection)

  • Directory see Wilhelm Kosch : Biographisches Staatshandbuch 1–2 (1963)
  • The censuses of Maria Theresa and Joseph II, 1909
  • Austria-Hungary and the German Empire's share in world trade, 1915
  • Austria-Hungary as a scheme for Central Europe, 1916
  • Middle class policy, 1918
  • Jesus Christ or Karl Marx?, 1931

swell

  • Registries of the diocese of Graz-Seckau, various parishes.
  • Grazer Tagblatt from September 16, 1912, p. 4.
  • Arno Kerschbaumer, Andreas Filipancic: Laßnitzhöher Villenwanderweg and Kainbacher Höfe . Laßnitzhöhe 2015.
  • City cemetery Graz-St. Peter, evangelical part, gravesites, Gürtler, Tritthart and Peters.

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 490, there: Gürtler, Textilfabrikanten and Gürtler Alfred
  • Academic fraternity Carolina in Prague in Munich: (Ed.) In memory of a more than 150 year old fraternity tradition - Academic fraternity Carolina in Munich May 12, 1860; Year of publication 2014, there in: Short biographies of important Caroliner p. 139 Gürtler, Alfred
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 200-201.

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