Max Menger

Max Menger von Wolfensgrün (born September 10, 1838 in Neusandez , † August 30, 1911 in Mondsee ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Life

Max Menger was born in Galicia . His younger brothers were Anton Menger and Carl Menger . He studied law and political science at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1864. In his doctoral thesis he represented the thesis of organized self-help through small businesses , which had been developed by Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch . In 1871 he moved to Vienna , where he worked as a lawyer .

politics

As a result of the theses in his doctoral thesis that were friendly to the cooperative system , he was sent in 1869 by the Troppauer Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a member of the Silesian state parliament . In 1871 and 1872 he represented the rural community district of Eger-Karlsbad in the Reichsrat , and from 1874 the Silesian district of Jägerndorf-Freudenthal-Freiwaldau. Max Menger was then from 1897 to 1907 member of the Austrian Council for Moravian-Ostrava. Menger joined the MPs of the Progress Club and the United German Left in the Reichsrat. He was also a member of the Vienna City Council from 1882 to 1885 .

Publications

• Max Menger von Wolfensgrün: The Electoral Reform in Austria , 1873
• Max Menger von Wolfensgrün: The Reform of Direct Taxes in Austria , 1895

literature

• Helmut Slapnicka:  Menger (von Wolfensgrün) Max. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 222.

Web links

• Entry on Max Menger in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )