Julius Sylvester
Julius Sylvester (born June 30, 1854 in Vienna , † July 13, 1944 in Seekirchen am Wallersee ) was an Austrian lawyer and anti-Semitic politician .
Life
Sylvester studied law at the University of Vienna . In 1874 he became a member of the Teutonia Vienna fraternity and in 1881 a member of the Libertas Vienna fraternity. Later established as Sylvester Old Mr. in the 1880s and 1890s, the Teutonia as anti-Semitic connection.
In 1877 he received his doctorate. iur. and worked as a lawyer in Salzburg from 1884 . Since moving to the city, Sylvester has gradually made it the center of Georg von Schönerer's anti-Semitic ideology . Later he became chairman of the Germanic League and the Kyffhäuserbund . In 1892 he acquired the Zeller Schlösschen in Seekirchen am Wallersee not far from Salzburg. In 1896/1897 he was Vice Mayor of the City of Salzburg. At that time, from 1894 to 1898, Gustav Zeller was mayor of the city. From 1897 to 1918 Sylvester was a member of the German progressive party in the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat , in the XXI. Session from the Reichsrat election in 1911 to the adjournment in March 1914 President of the House of Representatives.
As a German MP, Sylvester was a member of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria in 1918/1919 and was appointed by the latter to be the state notary of the new state (abolished on March 14, 1919) , who had to certify legislative resolutions. In 1919 Sylvester was appointed a member of the newly created Constitutional Court.
From 1915 to 1922 Sylvester was President of the International Mozarteum Foundation .
Julius Sylvester died in 1944 in his little castle in Seekirchen am Wallersee and was buried there.
Honors
- 1901: Honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg
- 1927: Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna
- 1945: Dr.-Sylvester-Strasse in the city of Salzburg
literature
- New Year Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2012–,ISBN 978-3-7001-7312-0, p. 93.
- 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. 573-575.
Web links
- Julius Sylvester on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Literature by and about Julius Sylvester in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 519.
- ↑ G. Lehner, S. Rolinek, C. Strasser: Im Schatten der Mozartkugel, Czernin Verlag
- ^ Julius Sylvester on Salzburg WIKI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | New Year's Eve, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Seekirchen |