Ivo Benkovič

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Ivo Benkovič (before 1908)

Ivo Benkovič (born June 24, 1875 in Stein , Krain , † September 23, 1943 in Ljubljana ) was a politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and member of the Styrian Landtag .

Life

Benkovič was born the son of a Slovenian farmer. He attended elementary school in his native Stein and then graduated from high school in Ljubljana by 1894. He first studied Romance studies for a year at the University of Vienna and then switched to law. He finished his studies in 1898 at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1902 for Dr. iur. in Vienna. Professionally, Benkovič worked as an auscultant at the Stein District Court from 1898 , from 1901 he was a trainee lawyer in Trieste , later he moved to Klagenfurt , Ljubljana and Gorizia . From 1905 he worked as a lawyer in Rann , from 1910 he worked in Celje and from 1918 in Laibach. After 1918, Benkovič was a member of the board of directors of various Slovenian mining companies.

Benkovič did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the "kuk Styrian Infantry Regiment" Albert I. King of the Belgians "No. 27" and served in World War I as a first lieutenant - auditor , most recently at the Landwehr Divisional Court in Ljubljana.

In addition to his professional activity, Benkovič was the editor of the national radical magazine Posavska Straža and was active as a writer under the pseudonym "Benko". He was also chairman of the Slovenian Catholic political association. He was a member of the Slovenian Farmers' Union for Styria (Slovenska kmečka zveza za Štajersko) and, after its merger with other Slovenian parties, belonged to the All- Slovenian People's Party . He ran for the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the constituency of Styria 29 and was a member of the Reichsrat from June 17, 1907. He was also able to defend his mandate in the 1911 Reichsrat election, which meant he was a member of the House of Representatives until November 12, 1918. There he belonged from 1907 to 1911 to the "Slovenski Klub" (Slovenian Club) and from 1911 to 1917 to the "Hrvatsko slovenska zajednica" (Croatian-Slovenian Association) in the Hrvatsko slovenski Klub (Croatian-Slovenian Club), which in May 1917 in "South Slavic Club" rose. In addition, Benkovič was a member of the Styrian state parliament from 1909 to 1918. On October 10, 1918, as a delegate in the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat, he gave a speech in which he called out the familiar words "It is too late!" To the Habsburg leadership. It was the last speech in the Reichstag by a South Slav delegate in the Vienna Reichsrat.

literature

  • Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849, Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= Studies on the History of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. 33, 1). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-7001-7589-6 , p. 69 f.
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical manual. 1907-1913. XI. Legislative period. (XVIIIth session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna et al. 1907, ZDB -ID 2181069-2 , p. 230.
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical manual. 1911-1917. XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 157.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat in 1918. XXII. Session. IV. Volume: 84.-95. Meeting. Vienna 1918, p. 4566 ( onb.ac.at ).
  2. ↑ Feliks J. Bister: "Your Majesty, it's too late ..." Anton Korošec and Slovenian politics in the Vienna Imperial Council until 1918. Vienna a. a. 1995, p. 311 .
personal data
SURNAME Benkovič, Ivo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Benkovič, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian politician, member of the House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamnik
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1943
Place of death Ljubljana