Felix Busson

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Felix Busson

Felix Busson (born September 30, 1874 in Innsbruck , † June 14, 1953 in Graz ) was an Austrian mining engineer and lawyer. He was Secretary General of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society.

Life

Busson was a son of the professor for history at the University of Innsbruck Arnold Busson , who immigrated from Westphalia in 1870 had acquired Austrian citizenship. His brother was the writer Paul Busson .

Felix Busson studied law at the University of Graz and Montan science at the University of Leoben . He became a member of the Corps Joannea (1892) and the Corps Schacht Leoben (1895). After graduating as Dr. iur. and the diploma examination in Leoben, he entered the civil service. In Leoben, he last acted as chief miner. He opened a law firm in 1912, but was soon appointed General Secretary of the Austrian-Alpine Mining Company , Austria's largest mining and iron and steel company at the time. After the First World War , in German Austria , he operated the accession of the Austrian Corps to the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . In the interwar period he was a member of the Styrian Homeland Security , and acted as its legal advisor and representative. After the annexation of Austria , he was for his oppositional stance against the Nazis dismissed. In retirement, he continued to deal with questions of mining law . In 1942 he wrote a commentary on the General Mining Act. In occupied post-war Austria he was entrusted by the Austrian government with the preparatory work for the revision of the mining law. As an honorary member of his two corps, he died of a stroke at the age of 78.

Knightly honor protection

Its importance lies above all in the reform of the code of honor widespread among officers and students in Austria , by subjecting Franz von Bolgár's rules of dueling, which had been largely recognized until then, to a fundamental revision. He competed at least eleven times on sabers during his active time and was considered an expert in the Austrian saber duel. The knightly honor protection , developed by him in collaboration with other weapons students (including Franz Aubell , later rector of the University of Leoben) and published under his name, was adopted soon after its publication in several Austrian university cities and is still recognized today as binding by many weapon student corporations. One of the essential changes compared to the Bolgár rules was the departure from the subjective concept of honor propagated by Bolgár based on the Romanesque model and the demand for factual characteristics as well as a proven intention to insult in order to be able to accept a defamation worthy of duel. This severely restricted trade of honor for no reason. In the 1980s there was a great "Busson dispute" among Austrian weapons students. Many connections refused the Busson because of the unconditional satisfaction . As a result, connections that represented different positions in this dispute terminated each other's bang-out .

Publications

  • Knightly honor protection. Pechel, Graz 1907.
  • Accident prevention in the mining industry. Practical tips for mining authorities and company officials, taking into account the regulations applicable in the German Empire and Austria-Hungary. 2 volumes. Nüßler, Leoben 1908-1910;
    • Volume 1: The conveyance on a level and inclined track.
    • Volume 2: Saigere conveying and loading.
  • Absolute satisfaction. In: Deutsche Corpszeitung. Vol. 42, 1925/1926, ISSN  0931-0215 , pp. 275-277.
  • Commentary on the general mining law of the Ostmark. Bohmann, Vienna 1942.

See also

literature

  • Richard Walzel : Felix Busson. The life picture of an Austrian corps student on the background of political and student history . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 7 (1962), pp. 156-168. ISSN  0420-8870
  • Peter Hauser : "The rules of the duel" and "Knightly honor protection". To the dueling manuals by Franz von Bolgár and Felix Busson. Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 97-116.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 49/96; 94/67
  2. ^ Walter Wiltschegg: The home guard. An irresistible popular movement? (= Studies and sources on Austrian contemporary history. Vol. 7). Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-486-52431-3 , p. 175.
personal data
SURNAME Busson, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mining engineer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1953
Place of death Graz