Karl von Krauss

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Karl Freiherr von Krauss ( wood engraving , 1879)

Karl von Krauss , raised to the nobility in 1834 as a knight of Krauss , from 1852 Baron von Krauss (born September 13, 1789 in Lemberg , Galicia , † March 5, 1881 in Vienna ), was a legal clerk in the Austrian Empire and, by Franz Joseph I. appointed, from 1851 to 1857 in the cabinets of Felix zu Schwarzenberg and Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein k. k. Minister of Justice.

family

His younger brother Philipp von Krauss (1792–1861), who died 20 years earlier, was the kk finance minister from 1848–1851, his brother Franz a civil servant. They came from a Bavarian-Austrian civil servant family; her father held a post in the crown land of Galicia . Franz's son Franz von Krauss became police chief in Vienna in 1885 .

Life

Karl von Krauss studied in Lviv Jus and entered 1809 in the civil service. In 1825 he became director of the law faculty of the University of Lemberg , in 1833 President of the Galician Land Law and in 1846 Vice President of the Supreme Judicial Office , the predecessor of the Supreme Court of Austria founded in 1848 .

In 1850 Krauss was elected to the Vienna City Council.

In 1851 Emperor Franz Joseph I , then 21 years old, appointed the 62-year-old Minister of Justice. The monarch ruled without a parliament at this time, later called neo-absolutism . His head of government until 1852 was Prince Schwarzenberg thirty years his senior, then Count Buol, 33 years older than the Kaiser.

After his ministry, Krauss was appointed President of the Supreme Court by the Kaiser in 1857 . In 1859 the city of Vienna granted him honorary citizenship. From 1861 he was also appointed by the emperor for life, a member of the newly constituted manor house of the Reichsrat .

In 1867, now 78 years old, he was appointed President of the Reichsgericht , the new court under public law for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council ( Cisleithanien ). The Reichsgericht started operations in 1869.

Krauss died in the city center of Vienna in the house at Plankengasse 7. His body was consecrated on March 7, 1881 with the participation of the highest officials of the imperial court, three archduke and many other prominent personalities in the court parish church St. Augustin and buried in the Viennese central cemetery.

Karl von Krauss left two sons: Section head Karl Freiherr von Kraus and regional judge Heinrich Freiherr von Kraus.

Appreciation

On the day after Krauss's death, the Viennese daily Neue Freie Presse wrote, among other things:

… What an abundance of events and changes, of triumphs and catastrophes, is connected with this life, of which more than seventy years were devoted to the Austrian civil service! ... The imperial handwriting with which he was honored a few weeks ago for the goal of an unprecedented, brilliant career and which commemorated his excellent services rendered under three emperors, did not say too much, if it made him tireless as an ornament of the judiciary, as an uplifting example Described loyalty to the entire civil service. ... ...

The obituary stated that Krauss had turned against those who were undertaking the transformation of Austria today . He had joined the German Liberal Party and opposed a policy based on the Poles, Czechen and Ultramontanes . In the final part of the obituary it said:

Oh, the patriots in Austria will have to join their badly thinned ranks very tightly if they are to withstand the events which are storming against them. But if there is anything else that can give them courage and strength to survive this struggle victoriously, it is the uplifting awareness that they have had convictions and convictions, as Baron v. Krauss was one.

At the meeting of the manor house on March 8, 1881, its president, Count Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff (1825-1896), stated that Krauss, the well-deserved Nestor of this house for many years, would keep his name in honorable memory among the living and indelible Traits in the annals of this House.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Franz von Krauss
  2. ↑ The funeral of Baron v. Krauss. In: Neue Freie Presse daily newspaper , Vienna, No. 5936, March 8, 1881, p. 4
  3. ↑ † Baron v. Krauss. In: Neue Freie Presse daily newspaper , Vienna, No. 5934, March 6, 1881, p. 2
  4. ↑ Stenographic Protocols. Mansion. IX. Session. 31st meeting. March 8, 1881, p. 341
personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, knight of; Krauss, Baron von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Minister of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv , Galicia
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1881
Place of death Vienna