Karl Grabmayr

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Karl Grabmayr from Angerheim

Karl Grabmayr-Angerheim ( from Angerheim until April 3, 1919 , born February 11, 1848 in Bozen , Tyrol , Austrian Empire , † June 24, 1923 in Meran , South Tyrol , Kingdom of Italy ) was a conservative Tyrolean and Austrian MP, 1913–1918 President of the Imperial Court of the kingdoms and states represented in the Imperial Council, and 1919–1921 President of the Administrative Court of the new Republic of Austria . The Tyrolean land register and the court law ( inheritance law ) go back to him.

Life

Mayr grave of Angerheim studied in Innsbruck Law (Dr. jur. 1871) and opened in 1878 in Merano as a lawyer, as lawyers were then called, his own firm. As a representative of the constitutional large estates, he was elected to the Tyrolean state parliament in 1892 and was still a member of it in 1914.

In 1897 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Imperial Council , the Parliament of Cisleithanien , according to the curiae suffrage . In 1901 he was elected chairman of the constitutional committee by the Reichsrat, which unsuccessfully dealt with the Trentino question of autonomy.

In the Tyrolean state parliament, Grabmayr was primarily active in securing the property. On his initiative, the Tyrolean land register was created, in which the property rights to all properties were officially recorded. With a special court law it was determined that after the death of the farmer, farm properties could only be passed on to one heir and could not be split up. This was intended to counter the emergence of uneconomically small properties.

In 1906 Grabmayr gave up his law firm in Merano and moved to Vienna . In the Reichsrat he participated intensively in the discussion about the general and equal suffrage for all male citizens announced in 1905 by the Imperial and Royal Prime Minister Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn . Grabmayr wasn't for it; He emphasized that the right to vote is not a natural right , but a public function that is performed in the interest of the general public. The proposed new suffrage would inappropriately reduce the political influence of the educated and the wealthy. Political power is only played into the hands of the inferior or non-possessing and the under-educated or uneducated masses. In addition, one could not speak of universal suffrage anyway, because it was withheld from the better half of the population, from women as well as from soldiers. The bill would only go hand in hand with the supremacy of the Slavs and a massive increase in the power of social democracy.

In 1907 Grabmayr, no longer elected to the House of Representatives under the new Reichsrat suffrage, was appointed to the manor house , the upper house of the Reichsrat, by Emperor Franz Joseph I. At that time he was Deputy President of the Imperial Court.

In 1913 the Kaiser appointed him President of the Imperial Court . After the founding of the state of German Austria (on October 30, 1918, republic from November 12, 1918), the Constitutional Court followed on January 25, 1919 , and Paul Vittorelli was appointed its first President by the German-Austrian State Council on February 14, 1919 . On the same day Grabmayr was appointed by the State Council Directorate as President of the Administrative Court decided on February 6, 1919 and remained so until 1921.

On April 3, 1919, the Constituent National Assembly for German Austria abolished the nobility on April 10, 1919.

Publications

memories

  • Vienna: Grabmayrgasse in the 21st district since 1956
  • Innsbruck : Dr.-Karl-von-Grabmayr-Straße
  • Meran: Karl-Grabmayr-Straße

literature

  • Karl v. Grabmayr: Memories of a Tyrolean politician 1892–1920. From the estate of the author who died in 1923 . Wagner, Innsbruck 1955 (Schlern writings 135)

Web links

Commons : Karl Grabmayr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Mail from the Parliamentary Directorate on August 23, 2007 on the centenary of universal male suffrage
  2. Stenographic Protocol. Mansion. XVIII. Session. 1. (Opening) session on June 17, 1907. P. 1, P. 3