Ferdinand von Stelzhammer

Ferdinand von Stelzhammer ; since October 22, 1849 Freiherr Ferdinand von Stelzhammer (born March 22, 1797 in Vienna , † July 8, 1858 in Graefenberg in Silesia ) was an Austrian lawyer .

Life

family

Ferdinand von Stelzhammer was the son of Paul von Stelzhammer (* 1747; † 14 September 1797), who had been employed in the judicial service in Lemberg and Tarnów from 1780 and was most recently employed as a councilor at the Supreme Court of Justice (today: Supreme Court ) in Vienna was, and his wife Aloysia von Obermaier; his father was raised to the Galician nobility in 1787 . Ferdinand von Stelzhammer was the nephew of the Catholic clergyman and physicist Johann Christoph Stelzhammer .

He married on September 18, 1827 in Lemberg Juliana (née Mosing) (* December 18, 1807, † November 17, 1873); they had four children together:

• Emil von Stelzhammer (born July 16, 1828 - † May 10, 1852), auscultant at the Higher Regional Court;
• Ottilie von Stelzhammer (* December 11, 1830 - August 22, 1850), married to Rudolph Fellner von der Arl (* April 17, 1820 - March 23, 1862), governor's travel secretary in Vienna;
• August Anton von Stelzhammer (born February 11, 1832 in Vienna), major, married to Natalie, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Ladislaus Singer von Gleichenau;
• Maria Antoinette von Stelzhammer (born December 29, 1833), married to Dr. Emil von Czyrniański , Professor of Chemistry at the Imperial University of Cracow .

Career

After attending the Theresian Knight Academy in Vienna from 1808 to 1819, Ferdinand von Stelzhammer entered the civil service on September 18, 1819 as an auscultant for Lower Austrian land law . In 1824 he was appointed councilor at Landrecht in Lemberg and was promoted to council there in 1829.

In 1831 he returned as a councilor on Lower Austrian regional law and in 1839 he was appointed to the Appellationsrat before he came to Vienna in 1843 as a councilor to the Supreme Judicial Office. In August 1848 he was appointed as Undersecretary of State in the newly established Ministry of Justice, which he deputized in the absence of the Minister.

In 1853 he was appointed to the Real Secret Council before he retired in 1855 for health reasons.

Professional activity

After the accession of Emperor Franz Joseph I to the throne, Ferdinand von Stelzhammer played a leading role in all legal reforms and thus in the reorganization of the judiciary after 1848; he served as an adviser to three ministers.

honors and awards

• On October 22, 1849, Ferdinand von Stelzhammer was raised to the baron status.
• In 1849 he received the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class.

literature

• Ferdinand von Stelzhammer . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon .
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stelzhammer, Ferdinand Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1879, p. 191 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stelzhammer, the barons of . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ferdinand von Stelzhammer . In: Wiener Zeitung 1858, No. 163, p. 2753.
• Ferdinand von Stelzhammer . In: Michael Friedrich Maschek von Maasburg: History of the Supreme Judicial Office in Vienna: (1749-1848) . Prague 1879.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . BoD - Books on Demand, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8460-4879-5 ( google.de [accessed on August 6, 2020]).
2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Perthes, 1870 ( google.de [accessed on August 6, 2020]).
3. ↑ Michael HAHN: Handbook for the nobility and the knights of the order of Austria. A counselor in all Austrian aristocratic and religious matters ... As well as the chronological list of names of all living persons decorated with Austrian orders at home and abroad . 1856 ( google.de [accessed on August 6, 2020]).