Friedrich Moritz von Burger

Friedrich Moritz von Burger, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1851

Friedrich Moritz Burger (born July 4, 1804 in Wolfsberg ; † October 2, 1873 in Vienna ), ennobled as Friedrich Moritz Freiherr von Burger from 1853 , was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Burger was the son of the Austrian agronomist Johann Burger . He studied law at the University of Vienna and settled as a lawyer in Trieste . In 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly , 1849 to 1857, appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph I , governor of the Duchy of Styria and from 1857 to 1858 of the Kingdom of Lombardy . In 1853 he was appointed a real secret councilor by the emperor . In 1859 he became governor of the Austrian coastal state, which existed as crown land until 1861, with his seat in Trieste and remained so until 1862 after the coastal land was divided into three crown lands, for which he now acted as governor.

In 1861 he (Trieste had just become its own crown land) was elected to the Trieste Landtag and sent by the Landtag as one of two members to the Austrian Reichsrat , where he was sworn in on November 4, 1861 for the first session, which lasted until the end of 1862 took. From 1862 to 1865 he served as the Austrian Minister of the Navy , responsible for the war and merchant navy (this ministry was abolished in 1865).

After his political career, Baron Burger was, according to the entry in Lehmann's Vienna address book, 1872 edition, on the board of the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn and the Kronprinz-Rudolfsbahn .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Burger, Friedrich Moriz Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, pp. 407–409 ( digitized version ).
• Burger Friedrich Moritz Frh. From. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 128 f. (Direct links on p. 128 , p. 129 ).