Johann Heinrich Steudel

Johann Heinrich Steudel

Grave of Johann Heinrich Steudel in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Johann Heinrich Steudel (born March 31, 1825 in the former Viennese suburb of Schaumburgergrund ; † September 13, 1891 in Weikersdorf , Lower Austria , Protestant AB) was a left-liberal Austrian politician, on whose initiative the creation of Vienna's 10th district, Favoriten , goes back.

Life

Steudel was the son of an innkeeper in what was then the Viennese suburb of Schaumburgergrund, which today largely belongs to the 4th district, Wieden . His inn was at today's address 10., Favoritenstraße 76 (then: 4., Himberger Straße 2). Steudel graduated from the Academic Gymnasium , which was unusual for the son of an innkeeper at the time, and then began to study English, French, music and singing, but was prevented from continuing to study shortly after the start of the course due to his father's illness; he had to represent his father at the inn. 1844–1846 he made an extensive trip abroad, which took him via Bavaria and Württemberg to Paris and London. The way back was via France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Saxony and Prussia. Then he finally ran his father's inn. Steudel's local community Wieden was incorporated into the city of Vienna in 1850.

Through property speculation, Steudel succeeded in acquiring great wealth. He was elected to the Vienna City Council in 1861, more than 50 years before the introduction of general and equal suffrage in Vienna, and in 1867 also to the Lower Austrian Landtag . In the mid-1860s, Steudel joined the Far Left, which had split off from the liberal left, and led this faction in the Vienna City Council, although Franz Menter was initially at its head. After his death in 1866, Steudel became chairman.

Steudel ran again and again for the office of mayor's deputy and, although he belonged to the smallest liberal parliamentary group, had repeatedly respectable successes. These candidacies, in which Steudel had run against Felder, resulted in a tense relationship with the later mayor Cajetan Felder . In 1867 Steudel campaigned for the revision of the electoral code. A year later he proposed to convert the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat into a directly elected parliament; the proposal was implemented in 1873. Steudel’s plan turned out to be far-sighted: the settlement, which had grown to a considerable size outside the line wall , was incorporated in 1850 and had been divided into its own 10th district since 1861 between the 4th and the new 5th district of Vienna, Margareten , separated from it to convert. Due to the factories in that area, and above all the brickworks on Wienerberg , enormous population growth was foreseeable. Against the resistance of the affected districts, which were to lose territory, Steudel's plan was implemented in 1874. He became the first district head of the new district known as Favoriten and was active in this function from 1875 to 1883.

In 1882 Steudel was elected as the second deputy mayor and remained so until 1889. Then the first deputy mayor, Johann Nepomuk Prix , became mayor himself and Steudel moved up. In addition, Steudel was from 1873 to 1885 a liberal member of the Reichsrat from the Crown Land of Lower Austria.

Honors

In 1875, Steudelgasse in the 10th district, Favoriten , was named after him, unusual in that other streets in Vienna were usually only named after people who had died. Steudel was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14A, number 26). In the area of ​​the southern station , which was demolished in 2010 , a connecting tunnel between the southern and eastern lines was called the Steudeltunnel ; the tunnel was demolished in 2010 during the construction of the new main station .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steudel, Johann Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 323 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Ch. Mentschl:  Steudel Johann 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. 243 f. (Direct links on p. 243 , p. 244 ).
• Felix Czeike: Historisches Lexikon Wien vol. 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna, 1997

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich Steudel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Illustration of the grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery

predecessor	Office	successor
none	District head of Favoriten 1875 - 1883	Johann Heinrich Knöll