Anton Stöhr

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Anton Stöhr

Anton Stöhr (born September 6, 1830 in Bečov nad Teplou , † January 16, 1906 in Vienna ) was a doctor of law and Austrian politician of German nationality from Bohemia .

Life

Anton Stöhr went to high school in Eger ( Cheb ) and Plzen (Pilsen), before in Prague and Vienna to study law, where he in 1856 to Dr. jur. received his doctorate. He then worked as a lawyer in Vienna. After the restoration of the Bohemian constitution through the February patent in 1861, Stöhr went into politics. In the subsequent elections he was elected to the Bohemian Landtag , to which he belonged until 1867. The Imperial Council elections of 1873 he was sent to the Curia right to vote as a delegate for the places Schonfeld , Petschau and Sanger mountain in the Imperial Council elected, to which he belonged by re-election (1879, 1885, 1896 and 1897) to the 1,901th

Stöhr was considered a German liberal. He was initially a member of the German Liberal Party , a centralist constitutional party that rejected federalist efforts by non-German ethnic groups. In 1881 he became a member of the United German Left , which had first formed as a parliamentary group in the Reichsrat. Their goals were to maintain the state unity of the Danube Monarchy , to preserve and strengthen German influence in administration and government and to protect the liberal school. When the United Left constituted itself as a party in 1888, Stöhr was there. When the German Progressive Party (Austria) was founded in 1896 , he joined it and was elected to the Reichsrat for the party in 1897.

Anton Stöhr died in Vienna in 1906 and was buried in his hometown of Bečov. Stöhr was an honorary citizen of communities (e.g. Tachau ) in his native West Bohemia and held some honorary posts there. He was chairman of the board of directors of the local railway Mariánské Lázně – Karlovy Vary .

Literature (biographies)

  • Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands (BLGBL), Volume IV / 6: Stodola - Stransky. Munich 2016, pp. 405–406.
  • Communications from the Sudeten German Archives, issues 58–61. 1980, p. 37.

Web links

Commons : Anton Stöhr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bohemia newspaper of March 23, 1861 : “JUDr. Stöhr, from Beschau derz. Vienna, was elected as a member of the Bohemian state parliament for the cities of Ellbogen, Schlaggenwald, Schönfeld and Bečov. "
  2. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for the year 1882 , p. 60 .: In 1882 Stöhr was a member of the electoral district 32 for Mies, Kladrau, Taschau, Haid, Plan, Marienbad, Tepl, Sandau, Beschau, Schönfeld, Dobřan, Staab and Bischof-Teinitz.
  3. ↑ Bohemia newspaper from January 19, 1906 : “where there was a funeral service at which, in addition to numerous deputies, the President of the Audit Office Dr. von Plener and the former Minister of Railways Dr. von Wittek participated. "
  4. ^ Collection of the findings and decisions of the Administrative Court , Volume 22, Part 1 (1898) p. 592.
  5. ↑ Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administration, Volume 37 (1997), p. 219.
personal data
SURNAME Stöhr, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, art collector and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Bečov nad Teplou
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1906
Place of death Vienna