Eduard Sturm (politician)

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Eduard Sturm

Eduard Sturm (born February 8, 1830 in Brno , † August 24, 1909 in Bad Kirchberg ) was an Austro- Moravian lawyer and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a high school professor, Sturm studied law at the local lyceum after attending high school in Olomouc . In 1852 he was promoted to Dr. iur. obtained his doctorate and worked from 1856 to 1861 as a lawyer in Pest , then in Brno and from 1871 in Vienna . In 1870 he became a member of the Arminia Brno fraternity . He worked as a legal writer under the pseudonym Adam Osten . From 1865 he was a member of the Moravian Parliament for the city of Jihlava . He belonged to the German Liberal Party in Moravia, in whose state parliament central election committee he was from 1871 and whose state committee he was an assessor. From 1867 he was also a member of the Reichsrat ; first in the Club of the Left, later he belonged to the Progress Club from 1876, to the United Left from 1881, to the German-Austrian Club from 1885; he was always on the board, often serving as chairman. As a member of the Moravian state parliament (until 1889), he tried to achieve a constitutional and national balance between Czechs and Germans.

Eduard Sturm is considered to be the "creator" (Gerald Stourzh) of the Austrian fundamental rights, which on the basis of the constitution he drafted in 1867 are still part of the Austrian constitution. At the end of his career, he was elected a member of the Austrian State Court in 1892.

He was an honorary citizen of Brno and many other cities and towns in Moravia.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 564-565.
  • Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848-1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848-1849, Reichsrat 1861-1918. A biographical lexicon (= studies on the history of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy 33), Part 2: MZ , Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2014, ISBN 9-783-7001-7589-6, pp. 1245f.
  • Christian Neschwara: On the legislative and impact history of the constitutional state law on the general rights of citizens of 1867 , in: Christian Neschwara (Hrsg.), Materials on the history of the Austrian fundamental rights. 150 Years of the Basic Law on the General Rights of Citizens, Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7046-7844-7 , pp. 1–46.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerald Stourzh: The Austrian December Constitution , in: Österreichisch in Geschichte und Literatur 12 (1968), pp. 1–16, here 10.
personal data
SURNAME Sturm, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Moravian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1909
Place of death Bad Kirchberg