Mathäus Rath

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Mathäus Rath , also Matthäus Rath , since 1815 Mathäus Edler von Rath (born September 7, 1761 in Raggendorf , Lower Austria , † January 23, 1828 in Vienna ) was an Austrian officer and real councilor of appeal.

Life

Mathäus Rath finished his legal-political course in Vienna at the beginning of 1784 in order to then continue his education as an auditor.

military service

In 1785 he passed the required testing and judge was directly as an auditor for šajkaši recalled -Grenzbataillon. He proved himself so that in mid-1787 he was transferred to the Gradiscaner border canton . In 1788 he was promoted to captain and at the end of 1788 to Infantry Regiment No. 49 (Pellegrini) and at the beginning of 1789 he switched to the Emperor Franz Dragoon Regiment as a cavalry auditor . During the First Coalition War (1792–1797) he was involved in the campaigns in the Netherlands. In 1794, on his retreat from the Netherlands, he saved the regimental treasury.

Police service

He was then promoted to police commissioner in Vienna and as early as 1796 to police director. In addition, he received the title of State Governing Council . In 1797 he became police director in Graz and from this position in 1804 he was transferred to Klagenfurt as an inner Austrian councilor of appeal .

Appeal Council

From 1804 until his death, Mathäus Rath was the Appellate Councilor under Count von Enzenberg at the Inner Austrian Appeals and Criminal Higher Court in Klagenfurt. From around 1817 as a real council of appeals .

Director of Studies

In addition to his work at the appellate court, Rath was from 1815 to 1820 and from 1824 to 1826 director of studies for philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt.

Mainz Central Investigation Commission

He interrupted his work as director of studies from 1820 to 1824 when he was recalled as an Austrian commissioner to the Mainz Central Investigation Commission .

From 1826 he occupied a position as a councilor of appeal in Vienna.

At the end of 1815 he was raised to the hereditary nobility for his services .

Mathäus Rath was married and had two daughters and a son, Johann von Rath (also later a councilor of appeal). He died after a short illness in early 1828 of an infection in the intestine .

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhardt Friedrich Voigt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 7, Part 1, BF Voigt, 1831, p. 3 ff.
  • Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie , Beck'schen Universitäts-Buchhandlung, fourth volume, 1836, p. 350 + p. 351
  • Helmut Gebhardt: The Graz Police 1786-1850: a contribution to the history of the Austrian security system in enlightened absolutism and in the Vormärz , Leykam-Verlag, 1992, p. 101 ff.

Trivia

The following statement by Mathäus Rath from the work of the commission from 1820 to 1824 has been handed down analogously: one does not have to look for the perpetrator for the crime, but rather the criminal for the perpetrator .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire. Vienna 1807-1843 . 1811 ( google.de [accessed on January 13, 2018]).
  2. ^ Joseph Carl Edlen v Wagersbach: Archive for important orders . 1820 ( google.de [accessed on January 13, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire: 1818 . 1818 ( google.de [accessed on January 13, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The Wanderer . Strauss, 1826 ( google.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon: in association with several historians . Voigt, 1867 ( google.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  6. ^ Journal of Austrian legal scholarship and political law: 1829.3 . Geisinger, 1829 ( google.de [accessed February 11, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Wolfram Siemann: "Germany's Peace, Security and Order": The Beginnings of the Political Police 1806 - 1866 . Walter de Gruyter, 1985, ISBN 978-3-11-162998-8 ( google.de [accessed on February 11, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Rath, Mathäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rath, Matthäus; Rath, Mathäus Edler von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian officer and real councilor of appeal
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Raggendorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1828
Place of death Vienna