Karl Ghon

Karl Ghon , also Carl Ghon (born September 8, 1835 in Villach (September 7, 1835 according to baptism entry), † April 24, 1919 there ) was a businessman and member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Karl Ghon was the son of the businessman Anton Ghon († 1859). He attended a primary school in Villach from 1842 to 1846 and then attended a commercial school in Ljubljana from 1846 to 1849 . In 1849 he began a commercial apprenticeship in Klagenfurt and from 1855 to 1860 he was a traveling salesman and accountant in Trieste , Ljubljana and Vienna. In 1860 he became a merchant for spices and dyes in Villach. In 1862 he set up a fig coffee factory in Villach. He has also worked as a local historian .

In 1867 he was co-founder and member of the management of Villacher Sparkasse, from 1895 to 1919 he was its chairman. He was Deputy Mayor of Villach from 1864 to 1905 and Villach City Councilor until 1906 . Karl-Ghon-Strasse in Villach was named after him, he is also an honorary citizen of the city of Villach.

Karl Ghon was a Roman Catholic and had been married to Therese Nagele since 1868, with whom he had a son and four daughters.

Political functions

• 1874–1907: Member of the Carinthian Landtag ( 4th , 5th , 6th , 7th , 8th and 9th electoral terms), electoral class cities, markets and industrial locations , Villach region; he was sworn in for Ignaz Dinzl on September 29, 1874 and renounced his mandate in the fourth session (before September 1907)
• February 16, 1886 to January 23, 1891: Member of the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat ( VII legislative period ), Crown Land Carinthia, Curia Landgemeinden 3 , Villach , Rosegg , Paternion , Arnoldstein , Tarvis , Ferlach regions ; in a by-election after the death of Bartholomäus Wrann
• April 9, 1891 to January 22, 1897: Member of the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat ( 8th legislative period ), Crown Land Carinthia, Curia Landgemeinden 3 , Villach, Rosegg, Paternion, Arnoldstein, Tarvis, Ferlach regions
• March 27, 1897 to August 19, 1900: Member of the House of Representatives in the Reichsrat ( IXth legislative period ), Crown Land Carinthia, Curia Landgemeinden 3 , Villach, Rosegg, Paternion, Arnoldstein, Tarvis, Ferlach regions; he resigned for family reasons

Club memberships

Karl Ghon was a member of the German-Austrian Club from 1886 and from November 6, 1888 he was a member of the United German Left . From November 6, 1896 he was non-attached and from 1897 he was a member of the Association of the German People's Party.

literature

• Karl Ghon, History of the city of Villach from prehistoric times to the present (Villach 1901)
• Ghon, Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 437 f. (Direct links on p. 437 , p. 438 ).
• New German Biography (Berlin 1953 ff.)
• Gustav Kohn , Parliamentary Yearbook . 5 vol., Vol. 4 and 5 with the subtitle: The new parliament (Vienna 1891–1897)
• Sigmund Hahn , Reichsraths-Almanach for the session 1891–1892 (Vienna 1891)
• Anton Kreuzer , Carinthian. Biographical sketches . 10 vols. (Klagenfurt 1995-2002)

Web links

• Short biography of Karl Ghon
• Stenographic records - House of Representatives, register of persons
• Catalog of the Bavarian Library Association (BVB): 4
• Catalog of the Bavarian State Library Munich (BSB): 2
• Free votes, obituaries. In:  Free Voices. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , April 27, 1919, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).
• Free votes, Villacher Nachrichten. In:  Free Voices. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , April 27, 1919, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
• The parliamentary apparatus. In:  Südsteirische Post , April 13, 1887, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
• The composition of the dissolved House of Representatives. In:  Südsteirische Post , February 14, 1891, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
• The election results of the rural parish Curie. In:  Das Vaterland , March 20, 1897, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
• Free votes, advertising of fig coffee. In:  Free Voices. German Kärntner Landes-Zeitung / Free votes. Southern German-Alpine daily newspaper. Deutsche Kärntner Landeszeitung , October 23, 1894, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matricula Online - Villach - St. Jakob, Birth Book VI, 1823–1841, page 180, 6th line
2. ^ Matricula Online - Villach - St. Jakob, Sterbbuch X, 1903-1919, page 197, entry no. 20, 5th line
3. ^ Short biography of Karl Ghon
4. ^ Karl Ghon, History of the City of Villach from Primeval Times to the Present; Chronicle of the city of Villach from 1848 to 1889 together with several older memorable dates. Dedicated to the memory of the venerable community committee of the city of Villach, on the occasion of the opening of the new town hall on August 18, 1889. (Two works in one volume)