Franz von Stejskal

Franz von Stejskal

Franz Ritter von Stejskal (born October 20, 1829 in Trebitsch , Moravia , † August 25, 1898 in Reichenau an der Rax ) was an Austrian police chief in Vienna. From 1892 to 1897 he was head of the Imperial and Royal Police Directorate in Vienna with the title of Police President .

Franz von Stejskal studied law at the University of Vienna and then joined the Vienna Police Department as an intern in 1853. He headed the Prater commissioner during the 1873 World 's Fair. In 1879 he became a police advisor, in 1880 a government councilor and head of the Prague Police Department. In 1892 he was appointed President of the Vienna Police Department. In the first year of his term in office, on January 1, 1892, the suburbs of Vienna on the right bank of the Danube came into effect as districts 11 to 19. The previously independent communities in this area were, however, already part of the Imperial and Royal Police Rayon Vienna. Not only as a result of this incorporation, the population of Vienna increased very sharply in these years. The social problems (unemployment and homelessness) preoccupied the police in particular, since social policy in the current sense did not yet exist.

The entertainment establishment “ Venice in Vienna ” , which opened in 1895 in the Vienna Prater , was criticized by Karl Kraus , among others, because of the experiences one could have there . Stejskal took a more pragmatic view of the topic: "Finally we have come to the place where we will all find crooks."

literature

• M. Petz-Grabenbauer:  Stejskal Franz von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 202.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Maderthaner, Lutz Musner: The anarchy of the suburb. The other Vienna around 1900 , Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-593-36334-8 , p. 131