Gottfried Riccabona

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Gottfried Kuno Riccabona (born June 16, 1879 in Pocking , † December 30, 1964 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian lawyer and president of the Vorarlberg Bar Association .

Life

Gottfried Kuno Riccabona was born in Pocking , Bavaria, in 1879 , where his father was employed in railway construction. The family came from a family from South Tyrol . Riccabona had come to Feldkirch with his parents and siblings in 1894 when his father - a civil engineering technician - was transferred . After graduating from the Franciscan lower grammar school in Bolzano, he attended the Feldkirch state grammar school and graduated there in 1897. He studied law in Innsbruck and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1902.

Like his father, the young Riccabona felt part of the German-liberal milieu. He was a talented musician and had literary ambitions, published poetry, etc. a. in the Innsbruck literary magazine Der Föhn . He was considered a good musician and talented writer. He loved the mountains and went on many ski tours with his wife and friends. For years he was a guest in the house of the music-loving manufacturer Theodor Hämmerle (1859–1930) from Dornbirn .

In 1904 Gottfried Riccabona met the merchant's daughter Anna Perlhefter (1885–1960). In 1905 they got engaged and in 1906 they got married. When the father of his wife Anna, Eduard Perlhefter, died in 1906, Gottfried Riccabona took over the task of running the company “E. Bead Stitchers & Co ”to coordinate. Riccabona was initially also the guardian of his brother-in-law Max Perlhefter, who lived with the family in Feldkirch. After passing his bar exam in 1909, Gottfried Riccabona opened his own law firm in Feldkirch, which in 1910 moved to the second floor of the new building at Marktgasse 13.

The married couple Gottfried and Anna had two children, Max Riccabona (1915–1997) and Dora (1918–2009).

Between 1909 and 1924 Gottfried Riccabona was active as a representative of the Greater German People's Party in Feldkirch in local politics and was a city councilor from 1917 to 1924. Gottfried Riccabona ended his work in politics in 1924.

From 1917 to 1937 he was head of the Sparkasse Feldkirch.

Gottfried Riccabona was a functionary of the Vorarlberg Bar Association : from 1914 he was on the chamber's committee, in 1921 he became vice-president and at the end of 1935 he succeeded Dr. Hans Ringler President. In 1938 he resigned from this office. In 1946 he recently became President of the Chamber. On the occasion of his resignation on November 27, 1954, he was elected honorary president.

After Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, the Riccabonas' marriage became a mixed marriage under Nazi law - Anna's parents came from a Jewish family, but had converted to Catholicism. Gottfried Riccabona had to find out from the newspaper that he had been obliged to pay 5,000 schillings because he was considered to be the chamber president of the Schuschnigg regime. The couple had to submit a “register of property” and Anna had to pay a Jewish property tax after the November pogrom in 1938 . After the imprisonment of his son Max Riccabona in Vienna at the end of May 1941 and his transfer to Dachau in January 1942, Gottfried Riccabona made regular payments to middlemen in order to improve his son's situation. Gottfried Riccabona was arrested on April 7, 1944 in connection with one of these intermediaries attempting to flee to Switzerland. He remained in the prison of the Feldkirch Regional Court until April 25, 1944.

The company E. Perlhefter & Co., which in 1938 was largely owned by his wife and brother-in-law Max Perlhefter, was taken over by the managing partner Johann Rhomberg after the connection. H. in Nazi jargon: Aryanized. After 1945 Rhomberg refused to restore the old ownership. Therefore, the company was placed under "public administration", the then mayor Andreas Josef Mähr acted as sequester . The restitution process lasted until 1949 and ended with a settlement.

Riccabona worked as a lawyer until 1960. As before, it was involved in the Feldkirch Schlaraffia , to which he had been a member since his student days. The attempt to let his son Max run his law firm failed. Max Riccabona had to give up the legal profession for health reasons soon after the death of his father.

Gottfried Riccabona often demonstrated his skills as a consultant and mediator, especially during the Nazi regime when he tried to protect his family - not least through his good relationships.

Exhibitions

  • The Riccabona case , December 3, 2016 to April 17, 2017, vorarlberg museum , Bregenz.

literature

  • Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Melichar : The Riccabona case, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 18–75
  2. ↑ Peter Melichar: The Riccabona case, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 18–75
  3. ↑ Press release on the special exhibition The Riccabona Case at the vorarlberg museum
  4. ↑ Alfons Dür: In the landscape of the files. Gottfried and Max Riccabona as lawyers, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 232–265, here 240.
  5. ↑ Alfons Dür: In the landscape of the files. Gottfried and Max Riccabona as lawyers, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 232–265, here 248.
  6. ^ Peter Melichar: E. Perlhefter & Co. A case of Aryanization in Feldkirch, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The case of Riccabona. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 294–315.
  7. ↑ Christoph Volaucnik, Gottfried Riccabona's engagement in Feldkirch, in: Peter Melichar and Nikolaus Hagen (eds.): The Riccabona case. A family story between acceptance and threat (vorarlberg museum Schriften 22), Böhlau Verlag - Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, Bregenz 2017, pp. 266–293
personal data
SURNAME Riccabona, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riccabona, Gottfried Kuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Pocking
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1964
Place of death Feldkirch