Franz Erne

Franz Josef Erne (born April 29, 1878 in Bregenz , † December 14, 1965 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian politician and judge. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After primary school in Bregenz, Erne attended two classes of the community school and then switched to the state high school in Brixen , where he passed the Matura on July 15, 1899 . He completed two semesters at the Law and Political Science University in Graz and then did his military service for a year with the Innsbruck State Rifle Regiment. He then continued his law studies at the University of Innsbruck and obtained his doctorate in law (Dr. jur.) On March 17, 1906 in Innsbruck.

Erne completed his time as a legal trainee from 1905 at the district court in Feldkirch, the regional court in Innsbruck and the district court in Bregenz and was appointed judge for the higher regional court district of Innsbruck on September 16, 1910. In May 1911 he became a judge at the District Court in Bregenz and on August 12, 1912 Princely Liechtenstein District Judge in Vaduz. In the course of the First World War he entered the Landsturminfanterie-Regiment II in Schwaz on August 1, 1914 and was deployed on the Galician front in the battles for Lemberg and Grodek in August and then as a first lieutenant in Przemysl. He was captured by Russia in March 1915 and had to spend in captivity in Siberia until July 1920.

After his return he worked as a civil judge at the Bregenz District Court before he was transferred to the Feldkirch Regional Court in February 1925. From 1930 he worked as a judge at the Princely Liechtenstein Supreme Court as well as at the Liechtenstein State and Constitutional Court and in 1936 took over the position of Vice President at the Feldkirch Regional Court. After the National Socialists came to power on March 12, 1938, Erne was relieved of his position as Vice President the following day and retired on November 30, 1938. Due to the shortage of judges, however, he was hired as a revoked civil servant from October 1939. On August 20, 1944, he was taken to the Reichenau labor camp near Innsbruck for 10 days .

After the end of the Second World War, Erne was appointed by the governor to take care of the affairs of the regional court president on August 6, 1945 and appointed president of the Feldkirch regional court on July 5, 1946. He finally retired in 1949, but was entrusted with continuing the administrative business until the end of April 1950.

Politics and functions

Erne was a member of the Catholic student associations KÖHV Carolina Graz and AV Austria Innsbruck . In 1934 he was appointed as a representative of the public service by the Vorarlberg governor to the state parliament and was a member of the state parliament from November 14, 1934 until the annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938.

Erne was one of the founders of the Regional Association of the Red Cross for Vorarlberg and was made an honorary member in 1957.

Private

Franz Erne was born as the son of the Bregenz goldsmith Xaver August Gebhard Erne (1824–1902) and his wife Franziska Walburga Hehle (1839–1914). He married Bertha Wagner (1885–1950) on May 18, 1911 and in 1912 had a son. After the death of his first wife, he married Amalie Adamer, who was born in Reith in Tyrol, on May 5, 1951, and in 1951 had a daughter.

Awards

• Military Merit Cross
• Commander's Cross of the Liechtenstein Order of Merit
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg (1964)
• Gold medal of the Austrian Society of the Red Cross

Web links

• Franz erne's biography (PDF; 82 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.