Franz Philipp of Sommaruga

Franz Philipp von Sommaruga , since 1838 Freiherr von Sommaruga (born March 5, 1815 in Vienna , † June 26, 1884 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Life

The son of a higher regional court president studied philosophy and law in Vienna from 1830 to 1835 and then began as an auscultant , from 1840 as an actuary, in the legal state service in Vienna. After intervention by the Austrian censorship authorities, he was unable to publish the crime statistics he had compiled.

In 1846 he was appointed court councilor at the highest judicial office. In the following year he moved as a councilor to the mercantile and exchange court and in 1848 became district administrator in Vienna.

As part of the March Revolution , he was next to Anton von Schmerling , Austrian representative in the Committee of Seventeen of the German Confederation and then a member of the Bohemian constituency of Elbogen / Eger in the Frankfurt National Assembly , of which he was a member from May 20, 1848 to April 30, 1849. Sommaruga was a member of the casino faction there , after which he moved to the Parisian court after its small German definition . He was active in a large number of parliamentary committees in the National Assembly, particularly in the constitutional committee and in committees on Austrian and Greater German issues.

After the end of the National Assembly, Sommaruga was appointed higher regional judge in Vienna in the Ministry of Justice and was particularly concerned with the organization of the judiciary in Hungary. From 1851 he worked at the regional court and the commercial court in Vienna. He belonged to the association of the first Austrian savings bank from 1854, from 1857 as headmaster, from 1860 to 1869 as director.

In 1856 he became a section councilor, in 1866 a ministerial councilor in the Austrian Ministry of Finance and administrative council of the Empress Elisabeth Railway (Westbahn). In 1862 he joined the German Reform Association . Sommaruga was retired in 1867 because of his critical stance on the Austro-Hungarian constitutional settlement. From 1868 to 1869 he was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sommaruga, Franz Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 35th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 284–286 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 323.
• HP Hye, Ch. Mentschl:  Sommaruga Franz Philipp Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 410 f. (Direct links on p. 410 , p. 411 ).
• Christian Jansen :  Sommaruga, Franz Philipp Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 564 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Franz Philipp von Sommaruga  - Sources and full texts