Ignaz Harrer

Ignaz Harrer
portrait from 1891

Ignaz Harrer (born July 19, 1826 in Lambach , Upper Austria , † June 11, 1905 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician. He was mayor of the city of Salzburg and a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

biography

Ignaz Harrer came to Salzburg in 1838 after taking preliminary lessons at Lambach Abbey . In the then district capital of Austria ob der Enns, he attended high school and excelled as a singing boy in the Nonnberg monastery . After his mathematics -Studies (two Rigorosen ) at the University of Salzburg , he then studied in Vienna and Innsbruck Law and received his doctorate in 1852 at the University of Innsbruck for Doctor Juris .

In 1857 Harrer got a notary's office in Zell am See , from 1860 to 1863 he was a kk notary in Neumarkt am Wallersee. He then returned to Salzburg, where he was elected to the municipal council of the now crown state capital in 1865, after only two years, and remained in this position until 1872. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , he was appointed to the Salzburg state parliament in 1867. At his request, he dealt for the first time with the establishment of a Salzburg state insane asylum in 1868. The actual opening did not take place until 1898 - 30 years after the initiation by Harrer. On November 19, 1872 he took over the office of mayor of the city of Salzburg from his predecessor Heinrich Ritter von Mertens and held it for three years. In 1875 he resigned as mayor, but was a member of the Salzburg state parliament as a member of the Liberals until 1896 .

He was a knight of the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class , officer of the Grand Ducal Tuscan Civil Service Order , as well as honorary citizen of Salzburg and Neumarkt am Wallersee .

Working in the context of his time

Ignaz Harrer was praised by his contemporaries as particularly philanthropic and a loyal liberal. Even after his death, his philanthropy was expressed in numerous generous legacies . As a member of the state parliament (1867-1896), he campaigned primarily for the state institutions. A special concern of his was the establishment of the state insane asylum - today the Christian Doppler Clinic , the initiator of which he is still considered to be the initiator of his application in the Salzburg state parliament in 1868.

As mayor, he was remembered as the reorganizer of the Salzburg school system and as a vehement advocate of the construction of the 9 km long Fürstenbrunn high spring water pipeline , which was completed after two years of work at the end of his term of office and which supplied the city with drinking water with a volume of 4,000 m³ per day . During his term of office, the construction of the slaughterhouse (1873/74), the completion of the upper real and community school building (1873) and the opening of the grounds on the right and left banks of the Salzach between the city and the Karolinenbrücke fell. At the end of his term of office as mayor, Ignaz Harrer opened the pavilion in the spa garden in 1875, which from then until 1937 served as an exhibition building for Johann Michael Sattler's world-famous city ​​panorama and the 119 cosmoramas of his son Hubert .

Honors

Following his term of office, he was honored on November 15, 1875 "in grateful remembrance of his energetic and effective representation of the interests of the city of Salzburg ... as well as in due recognition of his outstanding services to ... Salzburg through the most difficult conditions ... . With noble self-sacrifice and with ... successfully led management of the municipal administration ... " appointed honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg. Before that he was also an honorary citizen of Seekirchen am Wallersee.

During his lifetime, the city of Salzburg paid him another honor by naming the main street of the growing Lehen district, which was laid out between 1900 and 1903 . The "Ignaz-Harrer-Straße" is now one of the busiest streets in the state capital and leads from the Lehener Brücke into the Munich main road.

After his death on June 11, 1905, he received his final resting place in an honorary grave in the Salzburg municipal cemetery .

Fonts

Ignaz Harrer gave information about his work as mayor with a report: The municipal administration of the provincial capital Salzburg 1872-1875 . After retiring into private life, he gave further insights into key topics of his tenure with his own essays for the Salzburger Landeskunde society.

• The high spring pipe from the Fürstenbrunnen on the Untersberg to the city of Salzburg. In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. Vol. 40, No. 2, 1900, ISSN  0435-8279 , pp. 117-154 .
• The insane being in the Duchy of Salzburg and the new Salzburg state hospital for the mentally ill. In: Communications from the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. Vol. 42, No. 1, 1902, pp. 1-48 .

Literature and Sources

• Minutes of the municipal council meeting in 1875 (extract on the appointment as an honorary citizen).
• Josef Gassner: The honorary citizens of the state capital Salzburg. Catalog for the 10th special exhibition. Self-published by the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum, Salzburg 1954.
• Harrer Ignaz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 191 f. (Direct links on p. 191 , p. 192 ).
• Ludwig Netsch: The Salzburg mayors from 1847. Documentation of the city of Salzburg. Magistrat Salzburg - Documentation about what is happening in the city, Salzburg 1987.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich von Mertens	Mayor of Salzburg 1872 - 1875	Rudolf Biebl