Anton of Le Monnier

Portrait of Anton Ritter by Le Monnier

Family grave of Anton Ritter von Le Monnier

Anton Ritter von Le Monnier (born December 21, 1819 in Frankfurt am Main , † June 17, 1873 in Vienna ) was an Austrian civil servant . He was police director in Vienna and was appointed the city's first police chief.

Life

Anton Le Monnier was born as the son of the office director of the Frankfurt Bundestag , with whom he moved to Vienna as a child. A scholarship from Emperor Ferdinand I enabled him to visit the Löwenburg Konvikt in the Josefstadt and the Theresianum .

Anton Le Monnier joined the Austrian civil service on May 17, 1843 after completing his studies, where he worked in various police stations in Vienna between 1845 and 1848 (from 1845 as a trainee in the Wieden police district directorate , from 1847 as a court clerk in the police -Hofstelle). Between 1848 and 1849 he was the office director of the Central Commission at the Army High Command in Hungary .

In 1851 he moved to the city of Salzburg as chief commissioner , where he first became head of the new Salzburg commissioner and in 1853 became police director. On July 23, 1860, on the occasion of his move to Brno , where he also became police director, he was made an honorary citizen of Salzburg . In the same year, Anton von Le Monnier was appointed councilor .

In 1869 Anton Le Monnier was raised to the nobility.

Anton Ritter von Le Monnier returned to Vienna in 1869 on the orders of Minister Carl Giskra , who knew him as the former mayor of Brno, to initially take on the position of deputy police director and, after Josef Strobach Ritter von Kleisberg's retirement in 1870, the post of police director to compete. In the same year he was also appointed Ministerial Councilor. On the basis of a very high resolution by Emperor Franz Joseph I on June 7, 1873, Anton Ritter von Le Monnier was the first police director of the city to be granted the authorization to use the title of “President of the Vienna Police Department” . However, since this approval only became valid on July 1 of the same year, the deceased could no longer officially use this title. From the contemporary press, which reported about his death, he is nevertheless referred to as "police chief". The cause of death is a pneumonia called what he did in the adoption of the Russian Tsar Alexander III. had moved from Vienna to the Penzing train station .

Anton Ritter von Le Monnier was buried on Thursday, June 19, 1873 after a funeral service in St. Peter's Church in Vienna's 1st district in the Hundsturm cemetery . After its closure, he was transferred to the Vienna Central Cemetery , where he was reburied in a grave with the right to use the grave for the duration of the cemetery.

Services

His achievements in Vienna include, among other things, the introduction of the section division that still exists today and the abolition of the previously usual confederate system . The dissolution of the military police goes back to Anton Ritter von Le Monnier. The Prater Police Department was created from the establishment of a police department for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873, which he directed . A new regulation of prostitution by Anton Ritter von Le Monnier in 1873 resulted in the keeping of health books. Other innovations ordered by Anton Ritter von Le Monnier were the establishment of a police telegraph network and the criminal album.

He was no longer able to realize his request to set up a contemporary headquarters for the Vienna Police Department. Only his successor in office managed to at least purchase the Hotel Austria at Schottenring 11 after the rejection of a new building .

family

Anton Ritter von Le Monnier and his wife Franziska had four children: Antonia (married to Ferdinand Ritter von Widmann), Karoline, Franz and Sophie .

Honors and functions

• Member of the kk world exhibition commission
• Chairman of the Imperial and Royal Vault Guard Commission
• Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown 3rd class
• Commander of the Royal Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic
• Knight of the Royal Bavarian Order of Merit of St. Michael

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Memorial plaque for Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

During his time in Brno, Anton Le Monnier took on the recommendation of a teacher Tomáš Masaryk , who attended high school under poor circumstances. Tomáš Masaryk also moved to Vienna with the Le Monnier family, where he completed the academic high school together with Franz Le Monnier, who was born in Salzburg on December 7, 1854 .

A memorial plaque on a house on St. Peter's Square reminds us that Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk lived here for a number of years, but it does not establish any connection with the fact that the Vienna Police Department was once located in this building.

literature

• "Public Security" magazine - Vienna's first "Police President" (PDF; 191 kB)
• Neue Münchener Zeitung (Morgenblatt), September 8, 1860
• Wiener Abendpost - supplement to the Wiener Zeitung , June 17, 1873
• Neue Freie Presse (Abendblatt), June 17, 1873
• Wiener Zeitung , June 18, 1873
• Neue Illustrierte Zeitung - Oesterreichisches Familienblatt , June 22, 1873
• Engelbert Steinwender: From the city guard to the security guard - Viennese police stations and their time , Volume 1, Herbert Weishaupt Verlag, Graz, 1992, ISBN 3-900310-84-X
• H. Oberhummer carpenter:  Le Monnier Anton von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 125.
• Caesar Barazetti:  Monnier, Anton Ritter von Le . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 172 f.

credentials

1. ↑ case Lemonnier in a letter of recognition from kk Interior Minister Count Eduard Taaffe of 7 July 1870 Part facsimile in: Vienna Police Department (ed.): 100 years Viennese security guard from 1869 to 1969 , Vienna 1969, p 40
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 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. 
3. ↑ http://www.encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=3367
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