Johann Demel
Johann Nepomuk Demel (since 1867 Knight von Elswehr) (born March 29, 1825 in Teschen , † September 15, 1892 in Opava ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician .
Demel studied law at the University of Vienna from 1842 to 1847 . In 1850 he received his doctorate there and then worked in his father's law firm, later a lawyer in Dresden and Bielitz . 1861-1892 he was mayor of Teschen, where he also worked as a notary and lawyer from 1864/65 . From 1884 to 1892 he held the post of Deputy Governor of Austrian Silesia in Opava. In 1860, at Demel's suggestion, the Polish and Czech languages became the auxiliary languages of the Crown Land, but later, when he led the German Liberal Party in Cieszyn Silesia with Theodor Haase , he fought further initiatives of the Polish national movement in the area.
After the resignation of Josef Kalchegger von Kalchberg, he sat from October 10, 1848 to June 18, 1849 in the Frankfurt National Assembly for the constituency of Austrian-Silesia ( Teschen ) as a member of the German-Liberal Constitutional Party and the German Court .
From 1861 to 1892 he was a member of the Austrian-Silesian Landtag and a member of the Presidium. During the same period he was an old liberal member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat from the third curia in the Teschen district. In 1885 the Teschen market square was renamed Demelplatz after him. He died of a heart attack in Troppau and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Teschen .
Johann Demel von Elswehr was the father of the Egyptologist Hans Demel , as well as of Leonard Demel von Elswehr , future mayor of Teschen and member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat from the constituency of Silesia from 1907 to 1918. His brother, Benjamin Demel, was mayor in Kroměříž .
literature
- Heinrich Best , Wilhelm Weege: Biographical manual of the members of the Frankfurt National Assembly 1848/49. Droste, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-7700-0919-3 , p. 122.
- Krzysztof Nowak, Idzi Panic: Śląsk Cieszyński od Wiosny Ludów do I Wojny Światowej (1848–1918) [Teschner Silesia from the Spring of Nations to the First World War (1848–1918)] . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2013, ISBN 978-83-935147-3-1 (Polish).
Web links
- Demel, Johann Ritter von Elswehr (1867) Dr. iur. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demel, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demel, Johann Nepomuk (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 29, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Teschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1892 |
| Place of death | Troppau |