Georg Ratkay

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Wayside shrine spinner on the cross

Georg Ratkay (born April 3, 1845 in Törökbálint , † May 30, 1868 in Vienna ) was a robbery who was the last person to be publicly executed in Austria.

The carpenter's assistant had committed a robbery on January 9th, 1868 on the carpenter's wife Marie Henke . He killed her with a plane. According to the files, the death sentence was passed on May 20, 1868. The death sentence was announced to him on May 28, 1868. Two days later he was executed on the spinner on the cross on the gallows . In the literature, the date of the announcement of the conviction and not that of the execution usually appears incorrectly.

This was the last public execution in the Danube Monarchy after a proper legal process, because there had been scuffles and excesses of drunkenness among the spectators gathered at the place of execution, as at a folk festival, which allegedly even collapsed a grandstand, but at least damaged it. Children are even said to have asked their teacher not to come to school for class. The events led the judiciary to move the executions inside the courtyard of a court. According to a drawing, Ratkay would have been executed at the choke barrels . The executions, which were later carried out with the choking algae, took place in camera in the State Court I , the so-called Galgenhof . Emperor Franz Joseph I also issued an order that executions may no longer take place in public. The executions carried out by the military during the First World War were carried out under civil law .

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  1. ↑ On January 9, 1868, Ratkay killed the carpenter's wife with a plane and went into hiding. https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article176835031/Todesstrafe-in-Oesterreich-Tod-am-Wiener-Wuergegalgen-Was-fuer-eine-Mordsgaudi.html .
  2. ↑ https://services.bka.gv.at/oesta/archivalien/Archivalien_des_Monats_2006-2018.pdf p. 26 ff. According to the files here facsimile, this judgment was sent on May 23, 1868.
  3. ↑ https://www.archaeo-now.com/2019/08/15/gevatter-tods-langsamer-r%C3%BCckzug/
  4. ↑ https://services.bka.gv.at/oesta/archivalien/Archivalien_des_Monats_2006-2018.pdf P. 26 ff. According to the documents facsimile there, the death sentence was passed on May 20, 1868.
  5. ↑ A teacher reported that children asked him to be exempted from class for the day of the execution: “Mr. Teacher, tomorrow I won't come to the school, I'll go and see the Ratkay being hung. “ Https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article176835031/Todesstrafe-in-Oesterreich-Tod-am-Wiener-Wuergegalgen-Was-fuer-eine-Mordsgaudi.html .
personal data
SURNAME Ratkay, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Robbery
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Törökbálint
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1868
Place of death Vienna