Gustav Scheu

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Gustav Scheu (born October 7, 1875 in Vienna ; † March 9, 1935 there ) was a lawyer in Vienna and for a short time also a Viennese city politician.

politics

For the Social Democrats (SDAP) he became a (unelected) member of the provisional council of the city of Vienna in December 1918 . This was created in order to supplement the previous municipal council elected by men according to the curial suffrage until the first democratic election by representatives of those parties that had little prospect of political representation in the municipal council under this suffrage. The provisional municipal council was in office until May 1919.

In the municipal council election of May 4, 1919 , all adult women and men of Vienna with citizenship were eligible to vote for the first time. Scheu was elected to the local council for the 16th district, Ottakring , on the list of social democrats (SDAP) . The SDAP parliamentary group elected him to the 30-strong Viennese city council , at that time the executive committee of the municipal council.

This was replaced by the Reumann City Senate on June 1, 1920 (with executive and non-executive city councilors, as to this day) after a change to the Vienna city statute by the Lower Austria state parliament, which was then endowed with a social democratic majority . Shyness was no longer part of this; his city council function was thus ended.

Scheu remained a member of the Vienna City Council , which was in office until 1923 and which also served as the Vienna State Parliament from November 10, 1920 due to the new Federal Constitution that came into force on that day , and co-decided the city ​​constitution for the City and State of Vienna, which was adopted on November 18 Came into force in 1920.

Private

Gustav Scheu was the son of Josef Scheu , the founder of the Austrian workers' singer movement, who died in 1904, after whom Scheugasse in Vienna's 10th district is named.

Gustav Scheu had been married to the Viennese journalist and publisher Helene Riesz since 1904 and had two children. In 1905 her son Friedrich Scheu († 1985), 1954–1972 foreign policy editor of the Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung and book author, was born, in 1912 their daughter Elisabeth († 2011), who studied architecture in Vienna and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in became a well-known architect in the USA. Together with her husband Winston Close, she ran the architecture firm Close Associates in Minneapolis.

In 1912/1913 Gustav Scheu had the villa, known in architectural history as Haus Scheu , 13 , Larochegasse 3, built according to a design by Adolf Loos , where the couple then lived. Helene Scheu-Riesz ran a salon in Larochegasse where artists such as Alban Berg , Oskar Kokoschka and Loos frequented.

In 1910, Scheu was still listed in Lehmann's Vienna address book at address 13. , Trauttmansdorffgasse 5; At that time his law firm was at 7 , Mariahilfer Strasse 8, where his wife, as a writer, also had her office. In 1920 and 1930 the law firm in Heinrichshof , 1., Opernring 3, opposite the Vienna State Opera , was in the address book.

On September 4, 1928, Scheu took over the defense of Adolf Loos as a lawyer , who at the time was responsible for the “crime of partly committed and partly attempted desecration; partly accomplished, partly attempted seduction into fornication ”was charged. On September 6, 1928, Scheu brought the law firm Hans Stieglandt and later the law firm Valentin Rosenfeld to Loos' defense. Loos was finally sentenced to four months of strict arrest for seduction to fornication.

On February 12, 1934, the Social Democratic Party was banned by the Dollfuss dictatorship government .

Gustav Scheu died the following year. His urn was buried on March 18, 1935 in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall in Vienna (Department 8, Ring 3, Group 1, No. 15). In 1970 the urn of his widow Helene was buried here. The urns of their son, Friedrich Scheu (1905–1985), and his wife Herta (September 10, 1912–1995) were also buried in the same tomb.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Scheu house on a private Hietzingen website.
  2. ↑ Lore Brandl-Berger u. a .: Women in Hietzing , Vienna 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Documentation on the website of the Vienna City Administration  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  3. ↑ Adolph Lehmann's general housing gazette for Vienna, edition 1930, volume 1, p. 1398 (= p. 1425 of the digital representation)
  4. ↑ StPO form. No. 115 (Minutes of the main hearing before the lay judge's court), p. 1
  5. ^ Andreas Weigel : file number 27 Vr 5707/28 - criminal case against Adolf Loos. About the court file and the court ruling on the criminal case against Adolf Loos. Retrieved March 26, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Grave site search on the website friedhoefewien.at of the city's own cemetery management company
personal data
SURNAME Shy, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer in Vienna and for a short time also Viennese city politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1935
Place of death Vienna