Eduard Lamezan-Salins
Eduard Graf Lamezan-Salins (born August 28, 1835 in Lemberg , † March 15, 1903 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and rescue specialist.
Live and act
Eduard Graf Lamezan-Salins comes from a French family near Toulouse , who came to Austria in 1709. Count Lamezan first graduated from the Theresianum in Vienna and then studied law at the University of Vienna .
From 1858 he was in the court service, from 1870 initially a substitute public prosecutor and then a public prosecutor. From 1889 he was President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters in Vienna , then President of the Regional Court for Civil Law Matters , also in Vienna. He retired in 1903. Shortly afterwards he died after a long illness. He is buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .
During the fire in the ring theater in 1881, he broke into the burning building and organized the rescue of the injured and the recovery of the dead. In the same year, under the impression of the 400 victims the fire claimed, he founded the Vienna Voluntary Rescue Society together with Johann Nepomuk Graf Wilczek and the doctor Jaromír Mundy , of which he became director in 1883. He also made great contributions to the construction of the rescue station on Radetzkystraße.
He was also a founding member of the Austrian Olympic Committee in 1896 .
His son was the Austrian officer Robert Graf Lamezan-Salins .
Appreciation
In 1982 Lamezanstrasse in Vienna- Liesing was named after him.
literature
- Lamezan-Salins Eduard Gf .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 414 f. (Direct links on p. 414 , p. 415 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ † Count Eduard Lamezan. In: Neue Freie Presse , March 16, 1903, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Historical origin and development from 1894 to 1938 on the ÖOC website, accessed on January 30, 2010
Web links
- Entry on Eduard Lamezan-Salins in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamezan-Salins, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamezan-Salins, Eduard Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and rescue specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1903 |
| Place of death | Vienna |