Heinrich Steger
Heinrich Steger (born November 14, 1854 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; died December 7, 1929 in Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer.
Life
Heinrich Steger was the son of a Jewish businessman in Vienna; his younger brother Emil Steger (1856–1929) became an opera singer. Steger attended the Academic Gymnasium and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1872 and received his doctorate in 1877. He married Jeanette Mandl in 1878. From 1883 Steger was court attorney and from 1899 worked in a law firm with his son-in-law Alexander Hirsch.
Steger was known for his theatrical pleadings and took on high-profile mandates. After the fire in the ring theater, he was responsible for the acquittal of the illuminator. In 1900 he defended the writer Karl Michael von Levetzow in a trial for homophilia , in 1901 the banker Albert Vogl, who was accused of inheritance fraud. In 1905 he acted as a victim attorney in the trial against the pederast Theodor Beer , one of the victims being a son of Steger. Karl Kraus criticized his appearance. In 1919 the bar association opened disciplinary proceedings against Steger because he had charged fellow lawyers drafted as military judges during the First World War of having passed judgments on orders. In 1927 Steger prevented the opera singer Trajan Grosavescu's wife , who had killed him, from being convicted .
Steger also wrote music reviews and was chairman of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna from 1897 .
Steger was a co-owner of the Vienna Jedlesee margarin works .
Fonts (selection)
- Defense speech in the Albert Vogl jury trial: delivered on July 12, 1901 . Vienna: Perles, 1901
- The defense in the Austrian criminal case: five sketches . Vienna: Perles, 1926
- Defense speech in the trial against Ms. Nelly Grosavescu for the crime of spousal murder: go on June 25, 1927 before the Viennese jury court . Vienna: Perles, 1927
literature
- M. Martischnig: Steger, Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 138 f. (Direct links on p. 138 , p. 139 ).
- Karl Kraus : Die Kinderfreunde , in: Die Fackel , November 1905
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Steger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Hödl : Between Wienerlied and Der Kleine Kohn: Jews in Viennese popular culture around 1900 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017, p. 46ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steger, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1929 |
| Place of death | Vienna |