Marcell Frydmann

Frydmann is a redirect to this article. For people with similar family names, see Frydman .

Marcell Frydmann von Prawy (amateur photo from 1905)

Vienna, 7 Hegelgasse , where Marcell Frydmann von Prawy lived around 1900

Gravestone for Marcell Frydmann von Prawy and his family in the Vienna Central Cemetery

Marcell Frydmann (since 1899: Marcell Frydmann Ritter von Prawy ; born May 25, 1847 in Jaslo , Galicia , † November 13, 1906 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and journalist .

biography

Frydmann came from a Jewish civil servant family. He completed his law studies at the University of Vienna , which he completed with a doctorate ( Dr. jur. ). One of his teachers at this university was Max Menger von Wolfensgrün .

After completing his studies, Frydmann embarked on a career as a civil servant , which he ended as court counsel in Vienna. As a student, he was also active as a journalist for the newspapers Debate and the daily press . Among other things, he reported as a foreign correspondent from Paris during the Franco-German War .

In the 1870s and 1880s, Frydmann made a name for himself as a criminal defense lawyer , but continued to work as a journalist and became known as a writer of political editorials . In 1878 he finally became editor of the Wiener Fremdblatt , which he headed from 1886.

Frydmann received high awards for his work: in 1883 he was appointed Governing Council appointed in 1894 to the Imperial Councilor , and in his hometown of Jaslo he became an honorary citizen . In 1899 he was also raised to the Austrian knighthood (diploma issued in Vienna on March 24, 1900), where he received the territorial predicate "Prawy" and a coat of arms . As part of his ennoblement process, Frydmann had - as was common in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the time - to submit a list of three of the territorial predicates he wanted, whereby he had “Goda”, “Ropa” and just “Prawy” ( Polish for “the just “) Suggested. Frydmann was also Commander of the Franz Joseph Order .

Marcell Frydmann von Prawy lived around 1900 in the 1st district of Vienna at 7 Hegelgasse . He was the grandfather of the lawyer and opera critic Marcel Prawy . His grave is located in the Old Israelite Department (3rd Gate) in the Vienna Central Cemetery , where his wife Bertha, who died in 1927, and his daughter Hedwig (married Edle von Wurzian ), who died in 1960, are also buried.

family

1. Dr. jur. Marcell Frydmann , since 1899 Knight Frydmann von Prawy (* May 25, 1847 in Jaslo, Galicia; † November 13, 1906 in Vienna) ⚭ January 29, 1882 Bertha Wormser (* October 31, 1858 in Homburg ; † March 4, 1927 in Vienna), and had from this marriage:
   1. Hedwig Frydmann von Prawy , called "Hedi" (born November 9, 1889; † 1960), ⚭ (I) 1911 Dr. Wilhelm Herrmann Ritter von Gutmann (1889 - March 6, 1966); (II) 1924 Karl von Taussig (* 1878; † 1944); (III) Hans Ritter von Wurzian (*?; †?)
   2. Dr. jur. Richard Ritter Frydmann von Prawy (* October 21, 1882 in Vienna; †?), Ministerialrat at the Administrative Court ⚭ 1910 Marie Mankiewicz (*?; † June 18, 1925 in Vienna); (II) after 1925 Mimi Prokesch (* 1902; † December 21, 1931), and had from I. marriage:
      1. Dr. jur. Marcell Horace Ritter Frydmann von Prawy (born December 29, 1911 in Vienna; † February 23, 2003 in Vienna), dramaturge, opera critic and opera expert
      2. Edith Frydmann von Prawy (*?; † 2007 in Denver )

coat of arms

Coat of Arms (1900): Split; on the right in blue on green ground, which is traversed by three silver oblique left wavy bars , a golden deciduous tree growing; left in black two gold bars each with two black stars. Two crowned helmets: I growing a black eagle; II a closed flight , black in front and covered with two gold bars, blue in the rear . Ceilings: right blue-gold, left black-gold.

Works

• Systematic handbook of defense in criminal proceedings based on Austrian law and taking into account foreign, in particular German criminal procedure law . Vienna: A. Hölder 1878
• The new draft press law . Lecture given in the "Juristic Society" on February 7, 1903. Vienna 1903 ( full text in the Google Book Search USA )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Illustration of the Frydmann von Prawy coat of arms
2. ^ ^{A b c} Austrian State Archives Vienna, General Administrative Archives , Adelsarchiv: Adelsakt Frydmann von Prawy, 1899.
3. ↑ Marcell Frydmann von Prawy, death picture (1906)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Bertha Frydmann von Prawy's death (1927)
5. ↑ Sterbebild Marie Frydmann of Prawy (1925)

literature

• Frydmann-Prawy Marcell from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 376 f. (Direct links on p. 376 , p. 377 ).

Web links

Commons : Marcell Frydmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Journalists and writers' association “Concordia”. In:  Wiener Zeitung , November 15, 1906, p. 7 middle. (Online at ANNO ).