Johann Kaspar Ratz

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Johann Kaspar Ratz (born December 22, 1786 in Bezau , † July 7, 1860 in Bregenz ; from 1854 Johann Kaspar Ritter von Ratz ) was an Austrian politician and judge. Ratz was a member of the Austrian Reichstag in 1848/49 and lastly from 1850 to 1854 President of the Regional Court of Feldkirch .

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Johann Kaspar Ratz was born on December 22, 1786 as the son of Kaspar and Katharina Ratz (née Moosbrugger) in the Bregenzerwald community of Bezau. He attended high school in Feldkirch from 1801 to 1805 and then began studying philosophy at the University of Innsbruck , which he gave up in 1808 in favor of studying law . In 1809 Johann Kaspar Ratz moved to the University of Landshut , where he developed the juridical in 1811 Absolutorium gained.

After completing his studies, Ratz moved back home, where he worked as a legal intern at the Bezau district court from 1811 to 1814 . In 1814 he became a city court assessor in Bregenz, and in 1817 court adjunct in Dornbirn . In 1819 he was finally appointed as a judge at the Montafon Regional Court . In 1820 he was able to get a judge's position at the Bezau regional court and in 1830 at the Dornbirn regional court. After all, from 1850 to 1854 Johann Kaspar Ratz was President of the Regional Court at Feldkirch Regional Court , where he retired in 1855.

On June 16, 1848, Johann Kaspar Ratz was elected to the newly founded Austrian Reichstag. In the Reichstag he advocated Vorarlberg's independence, but could only achieve the creation of its own crown land. Otherwise he agreed with his voting behavior with the Vorarlberg MP colleague Lukas von Zwickle and the Tyrolean MPs and therefore voted in a reactionary tendency.

Private life

Johann Kaspar Ratz married Maria Reiner, with whom he had a total of fifteen children. 1854 Ratz was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown awarded the third class and the hereditary knighthood ennobled . From this point on he carried the hereditary title of nobility Ritter von Ratz . Ratz 'son Johann Kaspar Ratz junior (1829–1913) was appointed the first and until 1870 only Vorarlberg state official in 1861 after the Vorarlberg state sovereignty had been achieved.

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  1. ^ A b c d Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in Parliament and Government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848–2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Messages from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 , p. 188–189 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).
  2. ^ Ratz Johann Kaspar von, lawyer and politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 434.
  3. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur : Johann Kaspar von Ratz. Ancestor of the Vorarlberg state employees . In: V-Dialog. Magazine for employees of the Vorarlberg regional administration . No. 4 , December 2011 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).
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SURNAME Ratz, Johann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ratz, Johann Kaspar Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Bezau
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1860
Place of death Bregenz