Julius Roller

Julius Roller

Julius Roller (born October 28, 1862 in Thomigsdorf , Bohemia , † December 27, 1946 in Vienna ) was a Bohemian- Austrian politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Bohemian Landtag , a member of the Austrian House of Representatives , Austrian State Secretary for Justice and President of the Supreme Court .

Life

Julius Roller was born the son of a farmer and graduated from high school in Landskron . Between 1880 and 1884 he studied law at the University of Vienna , in 1891 he graduated as Dr. jur. During his studies in 1880 he became a member of the Bruna Sudetia Vienna fraternity . He did his military service with the 3rd Fortress Artillery Regiment, where he was last lieutenant in the reserve. Professionally, Roller was employed in the civil service from 1885. he initially worked as a judge in various places in Bohemia and in 1898 took over the office of head of court in Hohenelbe (Vrchlabí). Roller was appointed regional judge in 1907, councilor of the higher regional court in Prague in 1912 and court counselor in 1918.

Roller stood in the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the electoral district of Bohemia 96 , where he was able to prevail in the runoff election against the candidate of the Social Democrats. In 1911, Roller was able to defend his mandate in the runoff election against a social democrat. He held his mandate as a member of the Reichsrat until 1918 and was also a member of the Bohemian state parliament from 1908 until its dissolution in 1913. As a member of a German-speaking constituency, he was a member of the Provisional National Assembly between October 21, 1918 and February 16, 1919 . In the Republic of Austria, Roller held the post of State Secretary for Justice from October 30, 1918 to March 15, 1919 and from July 7 to November 20, 1920 . He was given the task of converting the judiciary to the new form of government and the new Austrian territory. Roller took over the function of the first president of the newly created Supreme Court from 1920 to 1927, where he headed the organization of the new court and played an important role as chairman of senates in the judiciary .

Roller, a proponent of the annexation of Austria to Germany, was an "illegal" member of the NSDAP even before the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 107-108.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1907–1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911–1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna, p. 333
• R. Harflinger:  Roller Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 226.

Web links

• Julius Roller on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ANNO, Salzburger Volksblatt: independent. Daily newspaper f. City u. Province of Salzburg, 1942-10-28, page 3. Retrieved on March 12, 2019 .