Josef Maschat

Josef Maschat (* 20th September 1874 in Vienna ; † 9. June 1943 in Munich ) was an Austrian administrative official and manager . From 1924 to 1926 he was General Director of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB).

biography

Maschat was the son of a princely Schwarzenberg estate manager. After studying law, Maschat was appointed to the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Finance (Department for Railway and Shipping) in 1907 and in 1914 moved to the Supreme Audit Office , where he worked as a councilor as an expert on railways . In 1923 he was appointed finance director of ÖBB as part of the hive-off of the railway from the federal budget, and the following year he was appointed general director of the company. Maschat made a contribution to the introduction of double bookkeeping and a number of important new regulations in the administrative service.

Together with his successor Rudolf Foest-Monshoff , Maschat was involved in an affair about a "secret fund" in the ÖBB and was finally sentenced after a civil lawsuit in 1934 to make repayments to the company.

Maschat was brother-in-law of the actor Ernst Nadherny .

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• Peter Panholzer / Christiane Reich-Rohrwig (eds.): Ernst Freiherr von Nadherny. Memories from old Austria . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2009 ISBN 978-3-205-78415-9 p. 314
• Hans Freihsl: Railway without hope. The Austrian railways from 1918 to 1938. An attempt at a historical analysis. Wilhelm Limpert Verlag, Vienna 1971, p. 170
• Mechtler, P .:  Maschat, Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 124.