Karl Irresberger

Charles III Irresberger (1860–1932), engineer and politician

Karl Irresberger (also: Carl Caspar Irresberger ; born April 26, 1860 in Salzburg ; † January 29, 1932 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( DF ) and foundry director. From 1918 to 1919 he was a member of the provisional state assembly ( Salzburg state parliament ) as well as its deputy president.

Life

He was the eldest son of the hotelier ( "Österreichischer Hof" ) Karl (II.) Irresberger († 1873) and the Henndorf brewer's daughter Barbara Irresberger born. Moser. After elementary school he attended middle school in Salzburg, but was excluded from further attendance by the school authorities. He then moved to Leoben to continue his education, but after a pub with members of the Corps Schacht , of which he was a member from 1880 to 1882, he was excluded from all Austrian secondary schools by the school authorities. He continued his studies privately and was able to take the Matura in 1880 . He then studied between 1880 and 1884 at the kk Bergakademie Leoben , where he also completed an apprenticeship as a mold maker. In 1882 he was a co-founder of the Germania Leoben fraternity . After his years of wandering in Tyrol and Germany between 1884 and 1889, he worked in the Michelbacher Hütte in Hesse from 1888 and in 1889 managed the establishment of a foundry in Pegnitz . Between 1891 and 1894 he founded and ran his own iron foundry in Zuffenhausen , and in 1894 he moved to Wilhelmshütte in Eulau in Silesia as a foundry director . He then worked as a foundry director at Bopp & Reuther in Mannheim between 1897 and 1905 , then at the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz and finally at the Rudolf Otto Meyer foundry in Mannheim, before moving to Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte as foundry director from 1905 to 1907 changed in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 1912 he finally returned to Salzburg as a civil engineer for iron and steel. There he was committed to the German Freedom Party and became one of its leading personalities.

Politics and functions

Irresberger was a co-founder of the Democratic Association of Estates in 1918 and between 1919 and 1920 was the chairman of the German Freedom Party in the city of Salzburg. On November 3, 1918, he became a member of the Provisional Salzburg State Assembly and was a member of it until April 21, 1919. Between November 7, 1918 and November 29, 1918 he was also President-Deputy of the Provisional National Assembly. Irresberger was from 1919 to 1920 also a member of the municipal council of the city of Salzburg and club chairman of the local German freedom group. He was also a member of the Sparkasse Committee of the Salzburger Sparkasse from 1919 to 1922.

Fonts

• Grand Nonsense of Dr. Schöpf, illuminated by a native of Salzburg. Reiss, Vienna 1888.
• The German-Austro-Hungarian Economic and Customs Alliance. A study with special consideration of the Austro-Hungarian point of view. Springer, Berlin 1916, digitized .
• The molding materials of the iron and steel foundry. Their essence, their examination and preparation. Springer, Berlin 1920, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-48549-7 .
• Cupola furnace operation (= workshop books for company officials, foremen and skilled workers, booklet 10). Julius Springer, Berlin 1922 ( digitized ).

literature

• Crazy Carl Caspar. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 42.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Volume 7: Klaus Oldenhage (Ed.): Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 496-497.
• Richard Voithofer: " That's why you are freshly joining Germany ..." The Greater German People's Party in Salzburg 1920–1936 (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2000, ISBN 3-205-99222-9 .
• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Web link

• Salzburgwiki, Article Karl (III.) Irresberger