Erwin Schwartzenau

Erwin von Schwartzenau (born September 11, 1858 in Vienna ; † January 13, 1926 there ) was an Austrian administrative lawyer, governor of Tyrol and briefly Austrian interior minister.

Erwin Schwartzenau (1901)

Life

Erwin Albert Ludwig Freiherr von Schwartzenau's father was an officer and landowner. He graduated from the Theresianum in Vienna in 1876 and then studied law at the University of Vienna until 1879 . In 1880 he went to the state service at the Lieutenancy in Innsbruck and from 1885 worked for the District Commission of Merano . In 1885 he married Countess Maria Trapp von Matsch (1858–1926), with whom he had a son. From 1887 he was a senior official in the Ministry of Education in Vienna and from 1891 as district captain of Neunkirchen . In 1893 Schwartzenau was appointed Ministerial Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, where he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor and in 1890 to Head of Section. He played a leading role in the creation of the 1896 amendment to the home law and won the trust of Prime Minister Ernest von Koerber .

At Koerber's instigation, Schwartzenau officiated from December 21, 1901 to March 26, 1906 as governor of Tyrol and Vorarlberg . As head of the country, he tried to deal dilatorily with the autonomy issue of Trentino . In the event of unrest between German national and Italian-speaking students in 1904, in the wake of the planned establishment of an Italian-language law faculty in Innsbruck-Wilten , hereinafter referred to as Fatti di Innsbruck (German: The Events of Innsbruck), Schwartzenau ordered the use of the Kaiserjäger . The Ladin painter and art student August Pezzey was killed by an emperor hunter with a bayonet stab . Koerber supported Schwartzenau against attacks by the Pan-Germans , but later he was removed from office by his successor and then appointed President of the Senate of the Administrative Court.

From 1911 to 1915 Schwartzenau was head of the commission for administrative reform. From 1916 until the end of the war in 1918 he was a member of the manor house of the Vienna Reichsrat . After a two-month term as Minister of the Interior in the Koerber War Cabinet at the end of 1916, he was the first President of the Administrative Court in 1917. In 1919 he retired.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Schwartzenau, Erwin Frh. Von (1858-1926), civil servant and politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 12.
↑ ^a ^b Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Fateful Years of Austria 1908–1919. Josef Redlich's political diary. Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 196.
^ Josef Fontana : History of the State of Tyrol. Volume 3: The time from 1848 to 1918. Athesia, Bozen 1987, ISBN 88-7014-454-2 , p. 260.

personal data
SURNAME	Schwartzenau, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schwarzenau, Erwin; Schwartzenau, Erwin Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian civil servant, governor and minister
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1926
Place of death	Vienna , Austria

[ÖBL-1] Schwartzenau, Erwin Frh. Von (1858-1926), civil servant and politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 12.

[Fellner-2] Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Fateful Years of Austria 1908–1919. Josef Redlich's political diary. Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 196.

[3] Josef Fontana : History of the State of Tyrol. Volume 3: The time from 1848 to 1918. Athesia, Bozen 1987, ISBN 88-7014-454-2 , p. 260.