Karl Beurle

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Karl Beurle (also Carl Beurle ; born April 24, 1860 in Großhof near Porlitz , Moravia ; † January 4, 1919 in Linz ) was an Austrian lawyer , economic pioneer and German national politician.

biography

Karl Beurle attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Vienna , where he became a member of the Libertas fraternity in 1878 and an honorary member of the Germania Leoben fraternity in 1882 , and completed his doctorate in 1884. He became a trainee at the Ernst Jäger law firm in Linz. From 1885 he was a committee member of the Liberal-Political Association , from 1888 of the German Association . In addition, he worked as a teacher for commercial and bill of exchange law at the Linz Commercial Academy .

From 1890 he was an independent lawyer in Linz. In 1898 he was a co-founder of the Linz Tramway and Electricity Company (ESG). From 1905 he was legal advisor and later owner of the Poschacher brewery , he was also president of the breweries Wieselburg, Gmunden, Kaltenhausen (later Brau AG ) and president of the board of directors of ESG. Beurle also worked for the magazines “Unadulterated German Words” (Linz), “Kyffhäuser” (Linz) and “Bauernfreund”. In 1893 he was a co-founder of the "Monday Post". Beurle was married and had five children.

The Beurle law firm is still located in the Beurle-Haus on the Linzer Taubenmarkt (center right; in the 1970s with the Brau AG emblem on the roof).

From 1890 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1915 he was a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament , from 1895 to 1898 a councilor in Linz and from 1901 to 1907 a member of the Austrian Reichstag . In 1917 he was appointed a member of the manor . In 1918/19 he was a member of the provisional provincial assembly of Upper Austria .

On December 3, 1917, he acquired a neglected defensive tower of the Linz tower fortification for the fraternity of the Ostmark , today's fraternity tower .

The Beurleweg, named after him, is located on the Pöstlingberg in Linz.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 93.
  2. ^ Klaus Oldenhage: The fraternity tower in Linz on the Danube. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Vol. 122, 2007, p. 139.

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personal data
SURNAME Beurle, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beurle, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, economic pioneer and German national politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Großhof near Porlitz , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1919
Place of death Linz