Ernst Seidler from Feuchtenegg

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Ernst Josef Stephan Seidler von Feuchtenegg (born June 5, 1862 in Schwechat , Lower Austria ; † January 23, 1931 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer, university professor, politician and Imperial and Royal Prime Minister .

Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg (1918)

Life

Birthplace in Schwechat

Seidler was the son of the judge Stephan Seidler and his wife Josefa Eleonora (née Reimann) and was born at Wiener Straße  19 (today: No. 10) in Schwechat . He studied at the University of Vienna Law at Carl Menger and was established in 1887 to Dr. jur. PhD. After temporary employment at the Financial Directorate and in the judiciary, he joined the Leoben Chamber of Commerce as a secretary in 1894, for which he wrote numerous statements on current draft laws and at the same time taught at the Bergakademie Leoben as a lecturer in economics. In 1900 he joined the kk agriculture ministry, headed the trade policy department, responsible for trade contracts and water law, and completed his habilitation in administrative law and administration theory at the University of Vienna in 1901. From 1906 he taught at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and in 1908 he returned to the Ministry of Agriculture as Ministerialrat , 1909 Section Head . In 1916 he was raised to the nobility as a knight of Feuchtenegg .

In the Ministry Clam-Martinic officiated Seidler 1-23 June 1917 in the wake of Clam-Martinic as Minister of Agriculture . After Clam's resignation as Prime Minister, Emperor Karl I resorted to the politically inexperienced expert Seidler as a compromise candidate and appointed him Austrian Prime Minister on June 23, 1917 . To solve the nationality problems of Cisleithania , Seidler strove for a constitutional reform in which, while retaining the crown lands, nationally uniform circles with their own autonomy should be created as far as possible. There was an increasing opposition to the authoritarian Foreign Minister Count Ottokar Czernin .

Despite concerns about trialism , Seidler said that one day there would be a unification of Bosnia-Herzegovina , Croatia and Dalmatia . Only a union with the Slovenes is excluded. But he refused any hints in this sense, to calm the southern Slavs .

Seidler's grave at the Dornbach cemetery

He tried by means of an amnesty for Czech activists to reconcile them with the Habsburg monarchy , but did not succeed. His planned administrative reform for Bohemia and Moravia , which provided for nationally demarcated districts, and the unresolved food crisis ultimately led to his overthrow. Due to the " peace of bread " with Ukraine , and the related cession of the Cholm area , Seidler lost the support of the Polish Club in the Reichsrat , whereupon he had to resign on July 25, 1918. Subsequently, as the successor to Arthur Polzer-Hoditz, he was the last cabinet director of Emperor Karl, jointly responsible for his Manifesto.

Seidler was a typical representative of the nobility of civil servants shaped by Austrian neo-absolutism , advocating the German course with the “fanaticism of the German national partisans”. He was in close contact with the "Ultras" of the German national parties.

After the war, Seidler took over positions in industry and banking and devoted himself to his scientific work. With his wife Theresia (1865–1950) he had two daughters, Alma (1899–1977), actress, Elfriede and their son Ernst (1888–1958), who became General Director of the Austrian Federal Railways .

In the spring of 1930 Seidler suffered a minor stroke from which he should soon recover. At the beginning of January 1931 he suffered another stroke, from the consequences of which he died on January 23, 1931 in his apartment. Seidler was buried on January 27, 1931 in the Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna's 17th district; the grave site was abandoned in 2015.

Fonts (selection)

  • The social science knowledge. A contribution to the methodology of social theory. G. Fischer, Jena 1930 (reprint: Springer, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-211-83125-8 ).

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Broucek :  Seidler von Feuchtenegg, Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 131 f. (Direct links on p. 131 , p. 132 ).
  2. ↑ Miklós Komjáthy (Ed.): Protocols of the Joint Council of Ministers of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (1914–1918). Budapest 1966, p. 661ff.
  3. ↑ Entry on Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  4. ↑ Helmut Rumpler: The Sixtus action and international manifesto of Emperor Charles. On the structural crisis of the Habsburg Empire in 1917/18. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Versailles - St.Germain - Trianon. Upheaval in Europe fifty years ago. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 1971, pp. 111–125, here: p. 122.
personal data
SURNAME Seidler from Feuchtenegg, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seidler, Ernst; Seidler, Ernst Wilhelm Engelhardt Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and Prime Minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwechat
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1931
Place of death Vienna