Ferdinand Gorup from Besánez

Ferdinand Gorup of Besánez (before 1915)

Ferdinand Johann Gorup Freiherr von Besánez (born February 1, 1855 in Saaz , Bohemia , † April 15, 1928 in Vienna ) was an Austrian police lawyer and police chief of Vienna.

Live and act

Gorup studied from 1873 Jus at the University of Vienna and was in 1876 a member of the fraternity Teutonia Vienna . In 1880 he entered the civil service as a concept intern at the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy. In 1887 he was in the Imperial Police Headquarters in Vienna appointed.

As a police officer in 1889, after the incidents in Mayerling Castle near Vienna , Gorup, together with Johann von Habrda , the then police chief of Vienna, was involved in secretly bringing the uncarried body of Mary Vetsera from the hunting lodge in Mayerling to the cemetery of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey .

1901–1908 he acted as central inspector of the kk security guard , d. H. as organizational head of the uniformed Vienna police. During this time, in 1904, Floridsdorf was incorporated as the 21st district, which is now the largest in Vienna; the large community had previously belonged to the Vienna police bayon. On November 28, 1905, Gorup and the security guard had to accompany an electoral demonstration on Vienna's Ringstrasse with 250,000 (!) Participants, which took place in solemn silence. In 1906, at an international automobile exhibition in Vienna, attention was drawn to the motorization of the city that had begun, which presented the security guard with new tasks.

Gorup von Besánez was the legal advisor to Emperor Franz Josef without a position in this regard . 1914–1917 he was the chief of police in Vienna and thus the penultimate chief of police during the monarchy before Edmund von Gayer (1860–1952).

After a funeral speech in the school association for civil servants' daughters, who suffered a stroke, Gorup's health deteriorated and he died shortly after his collapse in his apartment at Tulpengasse  2, Vienna-Josefstadt . He was buried on April 18, 1928 in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 11, no. 95). His wife, née Johanna Helene Reithoffer, from the industrialist family after Johann Nepomuk Reithoffer , died at the age of 73 on July 17, 1941 in Vienna from a serious illness.

literature

• Gorup von Besánez Ferdinand Johann Frh .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 34.
• Fred Hennings : As long as he lives . Volume 2: The course is set . Herold, Vienna / Munich 1969, OBV .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: politicians , subband II: F-H . Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , p. 160.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ → History → People → Places → Theories → Archive → Forum on mayerling.de.
2. ↑ Central Inspectorate of the Vienna Federal Security Guard (Ed.): Sixty Years of the Vienna Security Guard , self-published by the Vienna Federal Police Directorate , Vienna 1929, p. 42.
3. ↑ Hennings: As long as he lives , p. 51.
4. ↑ Hennings: As long as he lives , p. 67.
5. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) The former police chief Gorup has died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 22839/1928, April 16, 1928, p. 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). .