Carl Brockhausen

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Carl Brockhausen , also Karl Brockhausen (born May 9, 1859 in Emmerich , † September 16, 1951 in Kitzbühel ) was an Austrian administrative lawyer .

Life

Carl Brockhausen, born in Emmerich, son of the businessman Robert Brockhausen and Elise, née von Gimborn, devoted himself to studying law at the University of Vienna after graduating from high school , which he acquired in 1882 with the academic degree of Dr. iur. completed.

Carl Brockhausen began his professional career in the Ministry of Education , and was later given the position of university chancellery director. In addition, Brockhausen was available in an advisory capacity to the interior , social and trade ministers of both the German Empire and the Republic of Austria. In addition , he completed his habilitation in 1894 at the University of Vienna with a book on “Unification and Separation of Communities” , published in Vienna in 1893, for Austrian administrative law. In 1907 he was appointed full professor there .

Carl Brockhausen was married to Elsa, the daughter of Section Head Adolf Ritter von Doppler. He died on September 16, 1951 at the age of 92 in Kitzbühel. In 1960 Brockhausengasse in Vienna's 22nd district was named after him.

Act

In his administrative law work, Brockhausen dealt with three problem areas, namely self-administration , police law and administrative reform . He demonstrated the pointlessness of the legal comparison of the delegated and independent sphere of activity of municipalities, presented the illegality of police bans according to Section 7 of the ordinance of April 20, 1854 and advocated the introduction of a criminal liability for the political authorities.

During the First World War , Carl Brockhausen published a patriotic text called "Osterreichs Kriegsziel" in 1915 , in which he presented "sustainable peace" as the aim of the war for Austria-Hungary. He was mocked for this by Karl Kraus in “ The Last Days of Mankind ” , Act I, Scene 6.

After uncovering atrocity propaganda in Austrian newspapers about alleged crimes of Serbian soldiers, he helped found the International Rundschau to combat “systematic and thoughtless sedition”.

Based on his liberal ideals, he became a champion of pacifism and international understanding . In his late work “Erdwandel, Seelenwandel und die Völker Europa” , published in 1936, he describes this not only as a commandment of morality, but also as one of reason. Brockhausen was one of the founders of the first popular university courses in Europe in 1895.

Works

  • About the so-called right of prohibition of the sovereign political authorities, In: Grünhuts Zeitschrift, Vienna 1896
  • The criminal obligation of the political authorities, In: Grünhuts Zeitschrift, Vienna 1898
  • The Austrian municipal code, Vienna 1905
  • Austrian administrative reforms, Vienna 1911
  • Austria's war target , Hölzel, Vienna 1915
  • On the Austrian administrative reform, Vienna 1917
  • Europe 1914 and 1924, Vienna 1924
  • Germany in the mirror of France, 1926

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Author: Carl Brockhausen  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Troll: Der Grosse Herder, Volume 11, Issue 5, Herder, 1953
  2. ↑ Brockhausengasse. In: Vienna History Wiki . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  3. ^ Karl Kraus : The last days of mankind in the Gutenberg-DE project
  4. ^ Arnd Brummer: Against anti-Serbian atrocity propaganda. In: Chrismon . September 2012, accessed on July 10, 2018. See also Annette Kolb : Die Internationale Rundschau und der Krieg. In: The white sheets . 1915, no. 3, pp. 269-284 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Brockhausen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brockhausen, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian administrative lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein )
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1951
Place of death Kitzbühel