Emil Hardt

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Emil Hardt , after being ennobled on August 29, 1900 Emil Ritter von Hardt (born November 11, 1842 in Vienna ; † February 24, 1929 there ), was the kk section head , curator of the kk Österreichische Handelsmuseum, vice-president of the local railway Triest – Parenzo and board member of Vintschgau Railway .

Emil Hardt

Life

Emil Franz de Paula Hardt was the eleventh and last child of the couple Albert Franz de Paula Hardt (1795-1853), notary, owner of the cloth trade "Zur Schäferin" since 1825, co-founder of the National Guard and his wife Marie Barbara, née Edle von Kratzer (1803-1871).

Memorial plaque in the Eisgrübel

After completing his legal studies on July 31, 1864, Hardt entered the Vienna Regional Court as a legal trainee, passed the judge's examination with distinction in 1868 and transferred to the Vienna Financial Procuratorate in the same year.

From there he came in 1871 as a legal adviser to the general management of the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873 and founded the "Cercle Oriental" from his own resources, which subsequently became the Oriental Museum (since 1886 "Austrian Trade Museum"), of which he was the curator belonged, and ultimately in 1907 the Museum of Applied Arts emerged .

In 1874 Hardt was appointed to the Ministry of Commerce as Deputy Secretary.

In 1896 he came to the newly created Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry as Ministerialrat .

Emil Hardt's division

1895-1897 as part of a larger city regulating the houses where houses 609, 608, were 607, 606 and 605 and demolished after a design by Emil Bressler by Oskar Laske and Viktor Fiala of the conversion of the old Eisgrübels performed. As a reminder of this, there is still a plaque inside from 1936 with Goethe's saying “What you have inherited from your fathers, acquire it in order to own it”.

In 1904 he retired as head of the section, on which occasion he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class.

In the same year he found in the estate of his deceased father-in-law Karl von Stremayr a magnificently furnished handwritten score of Anton Bruckner's Fifth Symphony with the express dedication for Karl von Stremayr. At the time, this dedication was still completely unknown.

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He died on February 24, 1929 at the age of 87 in Vienna.

family

In 1873 she married Bertha von Stremayr (1851–1928), daughter of the knight Karl von Stremayr and his wife Bertha, née. Hope, instead. From this marriage came three sons and three daughters:

  • Emil (1874–1880) died of a brief, painful illness
  • Bertha (1876–1953), twin sister of Karl ⚭ 1899 Hermann Ritter von Mitscha von Märheim
  • Karl (1876–1958), twin brother of Bertha 1. ⚭ 1907 Agathe von Hofmann (daughter of the industrialist Adolf Hofmann ); died in Gmunden in 1919 after severe suffering. 2. ⚭ 1922 Josefa Pichler. 1905 Change of name to Ritter von Hardt-Stremayr
  • Hermine (1879–1966) ⚭ 1907 Emil Stransky von Heilkron
  • Maria (1863–1864), ⚭ 1907 Theodor Sweceny
  • Emil (1884–1910), 1905 change of name to Ritter von Hardt-Stremayr

Ennoblement

Coat of arms of the Hardt and Hardt-Stremayr family

On August 29, 1900, Emil Hardt was awarded the hereditary Austrian knighthood.

Heraldic description of the coat of arms in the original text

“A shield divided lengthways by black and silver. In the right field is the picture of Themis on the green turf floor rising from the edge of the foot, clad in a robe of gold cloth, her eyes covered with a golden band; in the right hand holding a sword on the ground by the golden handle and in the left holding a golden scales in balance. A golden crescent moon set inward gleams in the upper right corner. In the left field, transversely divided by a red flooded bar, above a lyre made of brown wood with two red stars on each side, with a star-shaped perforated foot opening, and below three red lilies, one above two. Two granulated tournament helmets rest on the main edge of the shield; from the right-hand one, black covers with gold and from the left-hand one, red ceilings underlaid with silver. From the crown of the helmet on the right a black horse with wings on the fetters jumps out and the crown of the helmet on the left wears a closed, red-fronted and right-facing silver crescent-shaped eagle flight in the back. A golden band with the motto "SEMPER PROBUS" in black lapidary script spreads out below the shield . "

On March 4, 1905, the name association Ritter von Hardt-Stremayr was granted to the two sons Karl and Emil Ritter von Hardt and their legitimate descendants by means of an imperial resolution .

Honors

Old street sign in Purkersdorf
Country house of the Albert Hardt family in Hadersdorf near Vienna, 1854
  • Hardt-Stremayr Gasse in Purkersdorf : His father Albert Hardt owned a country house in Purkersdorf from 1893 to 1920 and made several foundations for kindergarten (20,000 kroner, in 2015 approx. € 100,000) and elementary school in Purkersdorf. Thus, in 1910, the municipal council decided to rename the existing "Katharinen-Gasse" to "Hardt-Gasse" or "Hardt-Stremayr-Gasse". Hardt decided on “Hardt-Stremayr-Gasse”.
  • Honorary citizen of Purkersdorf and Hadersdorf-Weidlingau , who owned a country house in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau (today Mauerbachstrasse 36).
  • Hardtweg in Bad Gastein : Due to several spa stays in Bad Gastein, Hardt donated 1000 crowns in 1912 for the construction of a path, after which this section of the path was called "Hardtweg".

Web links

Commons : Emil Hardt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vienna National Guard in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ↑ Absolutorium by Rector and Dean of the Professors College: reference number 7572 of July 31, 1864.
  3. ↑ KK. Ministry of Justice: No. 3287 Pr dated November 9, 1864.
  4. ↑ KK. Austrian Higher Regional Court: reference number 9606 from June 24, 1868.
  5. ^ Presidium of the KK. Financial Directorate: Reference 553 from August 28, 1870.
  6. ↑ K. k. Austrian Trade Museum (Hrsg.): The Imperial and Royal Austrian Trade Museum. 1875-1900. Vienna 1900, p. 2f.
  7. ↑ Amely E. Haslauer: Collecting and presenting Islamic art in Austria in the 19th and early 20th centuries . Vienna 2013, pp. 17–20.
  8. ^ Eisgrübel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  9. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Justice XX. Vintage. Vienna, December 31, 1904. Piece XXIV Edited in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Justice, page 345.
  10. ^ Finding a Bruckner score. In:  Die Zeit , supplement Abendblatt , No. 767/1904, November 14, 1904, p. 2, bottom center (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / zei.
  11. ^ Wiener Zeitung , August 28, 187, p. 9, bottom right in the subsection Personal News.
  12. ^ O. Maas: Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria. Volume 2, 1906-07.
    Neues Wiener Tagblatt , April 8, 1905, p. 7.
  13. ↑ Document dated October 31, 1873, reference number 5335
  14. ^ The Minister of Commerce: Business number 1494 Vienna, from December 24, 1873
  15. ↑ Hardtweg. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hardt, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hardt, Emil Franz de Paula Ritter von (full name); Hardt-Streymayr, Emil von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1929
Place of death Vienna