Ludwig Wrba

Ludwig Wrba as Austro-Hungarian Railway Minister (1909)

Ludwig Wrba (born March 6, 1844 in Venice , † August 20, 1927 in Pressbaum , Lower Austria ) was a civil servant and twice Imperial and Royal Railway Minister of Cisleithanien .

Life

Wrba studied at the University of Vienna and the Charles University in Prague . In Prague he became a member of the Corps Teutonia. In 1866 he joined the Financial Directorate in Vienna and in 1869 was taken on as a concept adjunct in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce. Here in 1895, immediately before the creation of the new railway ministry, he became titular and after it was founded in 1896, he became head of the section and secret council .

After Heinrich von Wittek's resignation, he was appointed Minister of Railways on May 1, 1905 by Emperor Franz Joseph I at the suggestion of Minister-President Baron Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn and removed on June 2, 1906 at the same time as the Prime Minister. On July 24, 1905, Wrba introduced a law to increase the financial resources for the New Alpine Railways and other projects decided in 1901 by the Reichsrat . During his term of office, preparations were made for the nationalization of the Emperor Ferdinand's Northern Railway , which his successor Julius Derschatta brought through parliament in 1906. At the suggestion of Prime Minister Richard Graf von Bienerth-Schmerling , he was again Minister from February 10, 1909 to January 9, 1911. During Wrba's second term in office, the Tauern Railway opened on July 5, 1909 in the presence of the Emperor. Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel came to the funeral .

Honors

Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
Order of the Iron Crown (Austria) 2nd class
Knight of the Austrian Imperial Leopold Order

literature

Wrba, Ludwig in: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 20. Leipzig 1909, p. 759 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bertold Spuler: Regents and Governments of the World. Vol. 3, AG Ploetz, 1962, pp. 301, 302, 304 ( excerpts ).
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Adolf Siegl: The suspended corps of the Prager SC - Teutonia 1861–1869 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 134-136.
↑ RGBl. No. 129/1905 (= p. 282)

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personal data
SURNAME	Wrba, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian civil servant and railway minister
DATE OF BIRTH	March 6, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1927
Place of death	Press tree

[Spuler_1962-1] Bertold Spuler: Regents and Governments of the World. Vol. 3, AG Ploetz, 1962, pp. 301, 302, 304 ( excerpts ).

[Siegl-2] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Adolf Siegl: The suspended corps of the Prager SC - Teutonia 1861–1869 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research , Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 134-136.

[3] RGBl. No. 129/1905 (= p. 282)