Kaspar Moosbrugger

Kaspar Moosbrugger (born January 6, 1830 in Au , † March 11, 1917 in Nüziders ) was an Austrian civil servant ( court adjunct ), writer, party founder and brother-in-law of Franz Michael fields (1839-1869).

Life and activity

Coming from a large farming family in Au, district of Schrecken, Moosbruger graduated from grammar school and studied law in Innsbruck (1852 to 1855) with initial hardships . In 1856 he was a court intern in Bezau . He was transferred to Hungary around 1850 (until 1861). In 1861 his sister married the writer Franz Michael Felder, with whom he became friends. In 1864 he was a brief actuary at the district court in Dornbirn and from 1864 to 1889 court adjunct at the district court in Bludenz . In 1889 Moosbrugger applied for dismissal from civil service.

After the early and sudden death of his friend Felder (1869) he was hardly politically active anymore. In smaller writings such as Psychische Erlebnisse ( Psychic Experiences) (1893) he looked back once more on certain aspects of his life.

Hostility in Vorarlberg

Moosbrugger and his brother-in-law Franz Michael Felder were exposed to considerable hostility in the very Catholic and conservative Vorarlberg because of their sometimes revolutionary and new socialist ideas, which were unfamiliar at the time. In 1867 they founded the early socialist Vorarlberg party of equality and demanded z. B. universal suffrage for every citizen and the introduction of general conscription. In 1869 Moosbrugger called again in the Vorarlberger Volksblatt for the establishment of workers' education associations.

In 1867 Moosbrugger received a severe warning from the ministry because of his joint appearance with Franz Michael Felder. He therefore remained court adjunct throughout his life and was not promoted.

Moosbrugger was against the First World War set and was, because he before young Bregenzerwälder reservists spoke against the war, by the gendarmerie in protective custody and taken to the National Court Feldkirch admitted. However, there was no high treason trial and Moosbrugger was only placed under house arrest.

Publications

Own publications

Moosbrugger published four works:

• Call from Vorarlberg for equality. 1866. (published anonymously)
• Clarification of the Vorarlberg party of equality. 1867. (party publication)
• Culture talks from Vorarlberg. Innsbruck 1878.
• Psychological experiences. 1883.

His correspondence with Franz Michael Felder was published in 1999 under the title Letters 1869-1894 .

Publications about Kaspar Moosbrugger

• Walter Methlagl : Franz Michael Felder - Kaspar Moosbrugger. Correspondence. Complete Works, Volume 7, Lingenhöle Verlag, Bregenz 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kaspar Moosbrugger , website: Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek.
2. ^ Lecture on the 100th anniversary of Kaspar Moosbrugger's death , website of the Vorarlberg Catholic Church.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Literature Archives of the Austrian National Library, Vienna, July 2010.
4. ^ ^{A b} Rudolf Vierhaus: Kaspar Moosbrugger. In: German Bibliographical Encyclopedia. (DBE), 2nd edition. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 185.
5. ↑ Petra Paterno: Franz Michael fields - farmer and do-gooder.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website: wienerzeitung.at from September 20, 2014.  
6. ^ Günter Dietrich : Social Democracy in Vorarlberg. P. 6.
7. ^ Meinrad Pichler : Das Land Vorarlberg 1861 to 2015: History of Vorarlberg. Volume 3 , p. 27.
8. ↑ Gerhard Oberkofler: Beginnings - the Vorarlberg workers' movement until 1890 - from workers' education association to workers' party. In: Kurt Greußing: In principle hope - workers' movement in Vorarlberg 1870-1946 . Fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1984, ISBN 3-900438-07-9 , p. 36.
9. ^ Günter Dietrich: Social Democracy in Vorarlberg. P. 7.
10. ↑ Meinrad Pichler: Das Land Vorarlberg 1861 to 2015: History of Vorarlberg, Volume 3 , p. 97 f.