Karl von Banhans

Coat of arms of the Barons of Banhans (1886)

Karl (Freiherr von) Banhans (born June 12, 1861 in Kloster , Bohemia , † June 15, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Career

Banhans was born as the son of the Cisleithan civil servant and politician Anton von Banhans , who was also responsible for the railway system as the Imperial and Royal Minister of Commerce from 1871 to 1875. He studied at the Vienna Schottengymnasium and at the University of Vienna (degree: Dr.). From January 1, 1907, he was in the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry head of the newly established Imperial and Royal Northern Railway Directorate for the nationalized Kaiser Ferdinands- Nordbahn; the northern railway was the most important railway of the monarchy.

On 23 June 1917 he was Emperor Charles I on a proposal by Prime Minister Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg , who took office on the same day, the Ministry Seidler appointed imperial railway minister and remained so in the Ministry Hussarek and in the last imperial cabinet to its removal on November 11, 1918.

With the entry into force of the Nobility Repeal Act passed on April 3, 1919, Banhans' title of baron fell away.

In the Republic of Austria from 1923 he was Vice President of the Administrative Commission of the Austrian Federal Railways , which operated the lines of the kk state railways in the new state . From March 1930 to October 2, 1930 he was its president.

Karl Banhans was married to Eugenie Banhans, née Léon von Wernburg (7 December 1867–22 August 1942), who was persecuted as a Jew by the Nazi rulers. With Banhans' death, his wife lost the protection of "mixed marriage" and was now exposed to persecution unabated. Four weeks after the death of her husband , she was deported from their apartment in Vienna 1., Teinfaltstrasse 3, on August 13, 1942 to Theresienstadt , where she died on August 22, 1942.

Orders, awards and honors

• Order of the Iron Crown 1st class
• Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order with the war decoration
• War Cross for Civil Merit, 1st Class
• Knight of the Austrian Imperial Leopold Order
• Merit Cross of the Red Cross with the war decoration
• Jubilee cross for civil servants
• Jubilee medal for civil servants
• Magistral Knight of the sovereign Order of Malta

• Secret advice

There is a Banhansgasse in Strasshof an der Nordbahn not far from Vienna .

literature

• Banhans Karl Frh. From. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 48.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia - Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quotation from the decision of the Advisory Board pursuant to Section 3 of the Federal Act on the Return of Works of Art from the Austrian Federal Museums and Collections, Federal Law Gazette I No. 181/1998 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I No. 117/2009 (Art Restitution Act), dated June 10, 2011 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 76 kB) 
2. ↑ A Letter to the Stars , entry
3. ↑ Self-published and administered by the KK Railway Ministry: Almanach of the kk Austrian State Railways 1918/1919 . Vienna, page 5