Maximilian Joseph Gritzner

Maximilian Joseph Gritzner (born October 13, 1794 in Völkermarkt / Carinthia , † August 27, 1872 in Heidelberg ) was an Austrian administrative lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

Life

Gritzner studied law in Vienna from 1819 to 1822 , where he joined the fraternity of Vienna in 1819 . From 1822 to 1825 he studied at the Bergakademie Schemnitz . From 1825 to 1831 he was honorary professor in Tyrol , from 1826 to 1828 in Laibach , from 1828 to 1829 in Eisenerz (Styria) and from 1829 in Salzburg .

From 1831 to 1834 he was an actuary and provisional cashier. Afterwards Berggerichtssubstitut and cheerfulness cashier in Ljubljana and later First Assessor at Oberbergamt and Berggericht in Klagenfurt . From 1847 to 1849 Gritzner was court secretary at the Austrian General Accounting Directorate in Vienna.

Gritzner was from 1848 to 1849 a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the electoral district of Carinthia for the Donnersberg parliamentary group . In 1849 he took part in the October Uprising in Vienna and was therefore temporarily imprisoned and suspended from his position. The following year he fled to North Carolina via France .

In the 1960s he returned from America with his son Max Carl Gritzner . They founded the Gritzner sewing machine factory in Durlach .

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• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 180-181.