Joseph Strobach von Kleisberg

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Joseph Strobach von Kleisberg (born December 3, 1803 in Haida as Joseph Strobach, Böhmen ; † January 22, 1890 in Oberdöbling in Lower Austria , today part of the 19th  district of Döbling ) was 1860–1870 kk police director of Vienna. He was knighted by Kleisberg in 1866, and on his retirement in 1870 he was promoted to the status of a baron.

Life

Origin, training and civil servant career

Joseph Strobach came from the northernmost part of Bohemia near the border with the Kingdom of Saxony . He studied in Prague Law and began in 1827 at the police headquarters in what was then the Empire of Austria associated Venice to work, was then to the police authorities in Vicenza and Verona offset did at the law firm of Archduke Rainer , the in Milan reigning viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia , service and was then reinstated in Venice, where he kept secret files safe during the revolution of 1848 .

In 1850 Strobach was transferred to Prague as a police advisor and in 1852 promoted to police director of Ljubljana . In 1855 he became police director in Linz and in 1858 in Milan , which was lost to Austria in 1895 together with Lombardy . Back in Vienna in 1860 he was promoted to court counselor and director of the Imperial and Royal Vienna Police Directorate , which, together with his official residence, was then in the 1st district , at Peter 364, today Petersplatz 7. (The management moved to Schottenring 11 only five years after Strobach's departure , where it remained until 1945).

In autumn 1869 Hofrat Strobach fell ill with an unspecified illness, so that his retirement was expected since then. In the same year of the coming in to the office of kk Home Secretary was instructed Carl Giskra Councilor Anton Le Monnier (contemporary and also officially written as Lemonnier), since July 1860 police director in Brno , appointed on October 10 to Vienna and Strobach as Vice Director put aside. Effective March 9, 1870, Strobach was relieved of his office and - according to the official diction - "after the postponement he had requested into permanent retirement" and raised to the baron status tax-free in recognition of his many years of service. As it was already a foregone conclusion, he was succeeded by Le Monnier, who was appointed Hofrat and Ministerialrat at the same time, as Vienna Police Director.

Act

Police director Strobach proved himself in 1862 when Vienna was flooded by the Danube and in 1866 during the war between Prussia and Austria , which Austria lost. In 1867 Count Eduard Taaffe , Deputy Prime Minister of the so-called Citizens' Ministry and responsible for security issues, sent him to study the security precautions there at the Paris World Exhibition . Based on the experience gained in Paris suggested Strobach Taaffe 1868 before, after the French model instead of working in Vienna (and for their lack of German language skills by the Viennese as "the Zarrucks" [= Back] designated) Military police station a civilian kk security guard to establish. In 1869, Emperor Franz Joseph I approved this plan; on June 15, 1869 , the first security guards took up duty in Leopoldstadt , the 2nd district. Furthermore, Strobach submitted a plan for the creation of a corps of criminal investigators, which was implemented from 1872, when he was already retired.

Councilor Strobach's tenure as police director was not without controversy, as the media showed on the occasion of his impeachment and retirement. For example, he was described in the press on March 12, 1870 as “not an organizer” who continued the official business as he had taken over “without being able to help the long-felt need to reorganize the security service” "Maintaining order in the civil servants with great severity", treated his officials "rather harshly and briefly and was greatly influenced by sympathies and antipathies towards individuals". However, it was "not inaccessible" to the advice of experts and was valid at the court .

The day before, on March 11th, one could read in the Neue Wiener Tagblatt :

“… With Hofrath Strobach a piece of the old police regime falls, which should bring the state thought of the Vormärz and the Bach era to mind. In a newly colored garment, under a slightly different company, Strobach only continued what his predecessors had started. ... "

- Mr. v. Strobach retires. In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , March 11, 1870, p. 1.

"... After more than 40 years of activity, Mr. v. Strobach from civil service, his chest adorned with a large number of medals from all over the world, which are supposed to bear witness to his many merits. May Hofrath v. Strobach will enjoy them for a long time in his quiet seclusion and find consolation in this recognition of the potentates for the fact that the Viennese did not agree with his regime, and divorced him without 'recognition'. "

- X. Y .: “I am the police”… In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , March 11, 1870, p. 2.

Awards

  • In April 1854 Joseph Strobach was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order by Emperor Franz Joseph I, with which he had acquired the right to be raised to the nobility upon application.
  • On March 11, 1866 he received the knighthood diploma with the addition of Knight von Kleisberg.
  • On September 19, 1866, Joseph Strobach Ritter von Kleisberg was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order .
  • On March 9, 1870, on the occasion of his retirement, he was raised tax-free to the hereditary baron status, he received the baron status diploma , now Joseph Strobach Freiherr von Kleisberg, on July 1 of the same year.

Private and death

Joseph Freiherr Strobach von Kleisberg was married to the daughter of a Milan government councilor. From this marriage came two sons and a daughter († 1887). One son, Franz, was a doctor of law and in k. k. Ministry of Commerce employed; the second was serving at sea in 1870 in Dutch India .

Since July 25th, 1888 he was in the "Leibesdorf'schen" "Sanatorium of Prof. Obersteiner zu Ober-Döbling ", where he died on January 22nd, 1890. It has been suggested that the death of his daughter in 1887, "to which he clung with extraordinary tenderness," "may also have contributed to the outbreak of the unfortunate man's mental illness."

Freiherr von Strobach-Kleisberg was buried in the Hietzingen cemetery . His grave has since been abandoned.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolph Lehmann ’s General Housing Gazette… . kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 245 ( Lehmann Online , p. 690 in wienbibliothek digital ).
  2. ↑ a b c Vienna, March 12th. In:  Die Presse , Abendblatt., March 12, 1870, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr: “Today's Wiener-Zeitung contains the official announcement about the dismissal of Hofrath v. Strobach from the post of a Vienna police director and the appointment of Herr von Lemonnier as his successor. Hofrath v. Strobach received the title of baron, Mr. v. Lemonnier is promoted to Ministerial Councilor. The relevant announcement bears the date of March 9, [note] and the signature of Minister Giskra. "
  3. ↑ a b c Official announcement. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Official Part., March 12, 1870, p. 904 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz: "Se. k. k. Apostolic Majesty have with the highest resolution of March 9th d. J. graciously deigned to raise the court councilor and police director of Vienna Joseph Ritter Strobach von Kleisberg, on the occasion of the request for permanent retirement, in recognition of his many years of loyal and excellent service to the baron class. At the same time [...] the government councilor and vice director Anton Ritter v. Lemonnier as Ministerialrathe and Police Director in Vienna ... "
  4. ↑ a b Caesar Barazetti:  Monnier, Anton Ritter von Le . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 172 f.
  5. ↑ a b c d Local-Anzeiger: Retirement of the police director Strobach. In:  Die Presse , March 12, 1870, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / apr
  6. ↑ a b Mr. v. Strobach retires. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , daily edition, March 11, 1870, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg
  7. ↑ X. Y .:  "I am the police" he once said to the writer of these lines in a reproachful tone, ... In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , daily edition, March 11, 1870, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg
  8. ↑ a b c d Constantin von Wurzbach : Strobach von Kleisberg, Joseph Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, pp. 58–60 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , September 23, 1866, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz: "... with the highest resolution of September 19th d. J. deigned to bestow graciously the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order to the Vienna Police Director Hofrathe Joseph Strobach tax-free. "
  10. ↑ Small Chronicle - Hofrath Freiherr von Strobach †. In:  Wiener Zeitung , Wiener Abendpost, January 23, 1890, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz: “The former police director and k. k. Councilor Joseph Freiherr von Strobach-Kleisberg died yesterday evening, 87 years old, in the sanatorium of Prof. Obersteiner in Ober-Döbling. [...] In 1887, Baron von Strobach was hit by a severe blow. His daughter […] died, and this may also have contributed to the outbreak of the unfortunate man's mental illness. From July 25, 1888 until his death, Baron von Strobach was in the Leibesdorf'schen Anstalt. "
  11. ↑ Small Chronicle - Hofrath Freiherr von Strobach †. In:  Wiener Zeitung , January 25, 1890, p. 16 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz: “The corpse of the former Viennese police director, court councilor Joseph Freiherrn Strobach von Kleisberg, who died on Wednesday, will be brought tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from the mourning house, Landstrasse, Reisnerstrasse No. 22, to the Metropolitan Church in St. Stephen , where it will be solemnly consecrated and after another blessing buried the Hietzingen local cemetery in its own grave to rest. "
  12. ↑ The Gräber- / deceased search of cemeteries Vienna provides for the Hietzinger cemetery after Strobach (but also by Kleis Mountain ) no result, neither historically nor currently; accessed on April 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Strobach von Kleisberg, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strobach, Joseph (original name); Strohbach von Kleisberg, Joseph Ritter (Adelung); Strobach von Kleisberg, Joseph Freiherr (Freiherrenstand)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Police Director of Vienna (1860–1870)
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Haida , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1890
Place of death Oberdöbling , today Vienna