Arnold Eisler

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Arnold Eisler (born April 6, 1879 in Holleschau / Holešov , Moravia , † January 28, 1947 in New York City ) was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP). In 1956 in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon he was described as an excellent lawyer and brilliant speaker .

job

After attending secondary school in Kremsier in Moravia, he studied law at the University of Vienna from 1898 to 1902 . After six years as a trainee lawyer, Arnold Eisler worked as a lawyer in Graz from 1909 and in Vienna from 1925 . He was a lawyer for the state of Styria and lawyer for the city ​​trams in Vienna. In 1917 Eisler published a work entitled "Oesterreichisches Erbrecht" in the series "Commonly Understandable Representations of Austrian Laws" in the publishing house of the Graz bookstore "Arbeiterwille".

On May 3, 1919 Eisler was appointed as a substitute member of the Provisional Constitutional Court (VfGH) . On July 20, 1921, the Federal Council elected him a substitute member of the Constitutional Court, and on December 5, 1924, he was a full member of this court. Eisler's function ended on February 15, 1930. The conservative federal government had pursued the "depoliticization" of the Constitutional Court and declared judge mandates to be over, since the Federal President now had to appoint the constitutional judges due to a constitutional amendment .

politics

  • Member of the Graz municipal council
  • Member of the Styrian Landtag
  • November 6, 1918 - June 30, 1919 and July 13, 1920 - November 26, 1920: Provincial Councilor (= state government member) in Styria
  • March 4, 1919 - November 9, 1920: Member of the National Constituent Assembly
  • October 17, 1919 - July 7, 1920: Undersecretary of State in the State Office for Justice in the Renner III state government (The information on the parliamentary website that Eisler was Undersecretary of State until November 20, 1920 is, as reports at the time about the election of the Mayr I state government show , erroneous.)
  • November 10, 1920 - October 1, 1930 and December 2, 1930 - February 17 , 1934 : Member of the National Council

Eisler was thus continuously active as a social democratic parliamentarian in the First Republic, initially for the constituency of Upper Styria and later for Graz and the surrounding area.

Escape

Arnold Eisler was arrested by the Gestapo in the spring of 1938 in the course of the "annexation" of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich and held for several weeks.

After his release, he offered his colleague Adolf Schärf, who had also been arrested , to take over his apartment and office in Vienna 8th, Skodagasse 1, in June 1938, before he left the country. Schärf then lived there until his death. The handover from Eisler to Schärf could not be classified as Aryanization by critics after 1945 .

In the fall of 1938 Eisler was able to flee via Czechoslovakia , Switzerland , France and the West Indies and arrived in the United States in 1940 . There he was chairman of the socialists of Austria in America .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eisler in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1956
  2. ↑ All state governments since 1918 on verwaltung.steiermark.at ( Memento from June 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Heribert Sturm (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Countries. Volume 1: A-H. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Eisler, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAP), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Holešov
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1947
Place of death New York City