Karl Eppinger

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Karl Eppinger (born January 6, 1853 in Braunau ( Broumov ) in Bohemia , † July 15, 1911 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician of the German Progressive Party in Bohemia.

Life

Karl Eppinger, a brother of Heinrich Eppinger (* 1842 in Karolinenthal near Prague, died 1913 in Broumov / Braunau in Böhmen), lawyer, state advocate and district chairman in Braunau and of the medical doctor Hans Eppinger senior (1848-1916), studied as the son of a notary after attending the grammar school in his hometown, law studies at the University of Prague . During his studies, he became in 1870 a member of the fraternity Carolina Prague, after 1945 Academic fraternity Carolina to Prague in Munich. He was promoted to Dr. iur. doctorate and worked as from 1881 lawyer and attorney in Niemes in Northern Bohemia , where he 1890 local school board, city council and city council was. He was a member of the German Progressive Party in Austria and from 1895 to 1911 its member of the state parliament in the Bohemian state parliament . He fought against the Baden language ordinance of April 5, 1897 (see: Kasimir Felix Badeni ) and strongly advocated the national self-government of Bohemia.

From 1902 to 1907 Karl Eppinger was a state committee member of the Kingdom of Bohemia in Prague and also head of the finance department. Since 1907, as a member of the Herrenhaus (Austria) at times also director of the German State Theater in Prague, the later Státní opera Praha .

literature

  • Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon on the History of the Bohemian Lands. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, Vol. I, p. 315, ISBN 3-486-49491-0
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , pp. 259-260.
  • Günther Berka: 100 years of the German fraternity in Austria 1859–1959, Aula Verlag, Graz 1959, p. 123 f.
  • Hansjörg Brockmann, Rudolf Simm, Jürgen Wokoek: The Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prague in Munich commemorates their deceased, fallen and murdered brothers. Copyright 2014; in short biographies of important Caroliner, p. 139, Eppinger junior, Karl
personal data
SURNAME Eppinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunau
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1911
Place of death Salzburg