Friedrich FG Kleinwächter

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Friedrich Ferdinand Gabriel Kleinwächter (born March 19, 1877 in Prague , † June 29, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer ( ministerial official ) and publicist .

Life

Friedrich Kleinwächter grew up in Czernowitz , where his father Ludwig Kleinwächter worked as a gynecologist and obstetrician and his uncle Friedrich von Kleinwächter as a professor of political science. He studied law at the Franz Josef University , passed the state examination in 1902 and received his doctorate in 1903 .

In 1904 he began working in the Chernivtsi Financial Procuratorate , in 1906 he passed the financial procuratorial examination in Lemberg . In 1907/08 he worked as a court trainee in Vienna and Prague and pursued national economic studies at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague. In 1910 he was appointed to the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Finance and continued his scientific work in the seminar of Eugen Böhm von Bawerk . He was also active as a journalist, especially for the Neue Freie Presse . In 1914 he passed the bar exam. In 1917 he became managing director of the war credit institution for the southern war zone in Klagenfurt .

After the defeat in World War I, he saw the future of Austria in a " pan-Europe ". Kleinwächter was involved in the preparation of the referendum in Carinthia in 1920 . He took early retirement as a civil servant and opened a law firm in 1924. In 1934 he became vice mayor of Klagenfurt. As a financial expert, he reduced the debt burden of the state capital Klagenfurt . After the annexation of Austria he was banned from practicing his profession in 1938 and banned from Carinthia. He returned to Vienna, where he lived on a small pension.

After the end of the Second World War he worked as a financial expert in the State Commissariat for Federal Affairs of the State of Tyrol . In 1949 he returned to Vienna. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Works

Kleinwächter wrote books and essays on political, historical, economic and sociological topics that deal - often autobiographically - with Austrian history.

  • The essence of the urban rent. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1912.
  • The fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Koehler, Leipzig 1920.
  • The German-Austrian man and the connection. Luser, Vienna 1926
  • Right of self-determination for Austria! DVA, Stuttgart 1929
  • Edited with Heinz Paller : The follow-up question in its cultural, political and economic significance. With a preface by Paul Löbe and Alfred Gürtler . Braumüller, Vienna / Leipzig 1930.
  • The cheerful presidentialist. Amandus, Vienna 1947.
  • Bureaucrats. A cheerful novel from old Austria. Amandus, Vienna 1948.
  • From Schönbrunn to St. Germain : The emergence of the Republic of Austria. Styria, Graz 1964.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kleinwächter, Friedrich , website by Gerhard Köbler , accessed on March 3, 2013.
  2. ^ Friedrich Kleinwächter grave site , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 1, Row 3, No. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Kleinwächter, Friedrich FG
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleinwächter, Friedrich Ferdinand Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1959
Place of death Vienna