Moritz Ertl

Mori (t) z Ertl (born January 14, 1859 in Vienna , † July 1, 1934 there , 1912 to 1919 Ritter von Ertl ) was an administrative officer and Austrian agriculture minister .

Life

Ertl was the son of a silk manufacturer, his brother was the writer Emil Ertl . He attended grammar schools in Vienna and Merano , where the family moved after the widowed mother's remarriage. After graduation Ertl studied 1878 jurisprudence at the University of Vienna and Berlin, 1883, he graduated as Dr. jur. In 1882/83 he served as a one-year volunteer and became first lieutenant in the reserve. In 1884 he entered the civil service with the Central Statistical Commission in Vienna. In 1886/87 he was employed by the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy and in 1890 moved to the Ministry of Agriculture. There he became Ministerialrat in 1906 , Section Head in 1911 and Privy Councilor in 1917 .

From June 23 to August 30, 1917, Ertl served as interim Minister of Agriculture in the Seidler government and was also a member of the Commission for War and Transitional Economics. After his retirement in 1918 he was in the Society for the Promotion of the Consumption of Milk and Domestic Dairy Products and from 1925 as a board member of Artmann & Comp. AG and as Vice President of the Austrian Trade and Approval Association.

Ertl was influenced by Karl von Vogelsang and an expert on agricultural cooperatives. He was involved in the law on agricultural professional associations and the law on the creation of a cattle recycling fund, as well as the establishment of the Austrian cattle and meat recycling company. In 1906 he received the Commander's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and in 1916 that of the Leopold Order , in 1912 he was ennobled as a knight.

Fonts (selection)

• with Stefan Licht : The agricultural cooperative system in Germany. Systematically presented in all its facilities and forms of organization based on personal perceptions and intended as a manual for cooperative practice. Manz, Vienna 1899.
• with Leopold Freiherr von Hennet : The agricultural trade associations (Syndicates agricoles) in France. Brothers Zeininger, Vienna 1910.
• The Social Democratic Agrarian Program and Russian Bolshevism. Publishing house Dr. Tyrolia, Vienna around 1910.

literature

• Elisabeth Lebensaft, Christoph Mentschl: feudal lords - farmers - functionaries. Austria's agricultural elite in the 20th century. A biographical manual. (= Studies and research from the Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies. Volume 30) Lower Austrian Institute for Regional Studies, St. Pölten 2003, ISBN 3-85006-143-4 , p. 43f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ertl, Mori (t) z Ritter von (1859–1934), politician and civil servant. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon (ÖBL) from 1815, 2nd revised edition - online.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Otto Dornik: Hundred Years of Agriculture Ministry. Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna 1967, p. 87.