Josef Kopp
Josef Kopp (born April 13, 1827 in Vienna ; † January 22, 1907 there ) was a court and court advocate and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament .
Life
Kopp, who came from a family of civil servants, studied law at the University of Vienna from 1845 to 1849 and from 1849 law at the Theresian Knight Academy . Even before his doctorate in 1854, he was giving lectures on the oral process.
In 1862 he became court advocate for four decades, from 1867 a member of the Viennese municipal council , was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and temporarily on the state committee. After the first direct elections in 1873, he entered parliament as a member of the Reichsrat and leader of the Austrian German Liberals. There he initially represented the Mariahilf district and later the inner city .
Kopp devoted his energies to public life at an early age. He fought in the Academic Legion in 1848 , founded the German People's Association in Vienna in 1859, which was a political rallying point for a long time and from which the Deutsche Zeitung emerged in 1871 .
During a speech as dean of the juridical doctoral college, an incident occurred in 1871 when his words cheered the assembled students and they let themselves be carried away to demonstrations against the members of the Hohenwart government, which made him a well-known personality.
He campaigned for a reform of the code of criminal procedure , the code of civil procedure and press law and was a successful defender in numerous political trials, as well as in the anti-Semitically motivated trial of the theologian August Rohling against the rabbi and Reichsrat member Joseph Samuel Bloch .
In 1883, Koppstraße in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) was named after him.
literature
- Ströher: Kopp, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 118 f. (Direct links on p. 118 , p. 119 ).
- Anton Bettelheim: Biographical Yearbook and German Nekrolog . Georg Reimer, 1909. Vol. 12, p. 245.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Theodor Gomperz: A learned life in the middle class of the Franz-Josefs-time . Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1974. p. 154.
- ↑ Other sources mention 1869 as the year of foundation
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kopp, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Court and court advocate and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1907 |
| Place of death | Vienna |