Moritz von Stubenrauch

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Noble Moritz von Stubenrauch ; and Moritz von Stubenrauchstraße (* 22. September 1811 in Vienna , † 31 August 1865 ) was an Austrian lawyer .

Life

Moritz von Stubenrauch was the son of the writer Franz Eugen Stubenrauch (1787-1856), secretary of the aristocratic casino association in Vienna and a member of the Ludlamshöhle and his wife Katharina (née Escherich) (* 1785). His grandfather was Johann Michael Stubenrauch (around 1727–1801), Reichshofrat in Vienna; his uncle was the painter and engraver Philipp von Stubenrauch (1784-1848 or 1839).

He studied modern and oriental languages as well as law at the University of Vienna and was a criminal court trainee from 1832 to 1834 and an intern at the court and Lower Austrian chamber procurator from 1833 to 1836 . After his doctorate in 1835 as Dr. jur. utr. he was accepted as an amanuensis of the library, at the same time he became an adjunct at the University of Vienna.

From 1838 to 1839 he taught as a professor of the judicial procedure of the old Polish law and of commercial and exchange law at the University of Lemberg and then became a teacher at the chair for civil law at the Theresian Knight Academy in Vienna . He became a librarian there and joined the juridical-political reading association founded in 1841 , to whose board of directors he was later elected. In 1848 he supported the reading club's participation in revolutionary events, but kept himself in the background. Because of his moderate attitude, he was briefly commissioned to edit the Wiener Zeitung during this time .

In 1849 he received a professorship at the law faculty of the University of Vienna, and initially held lectures on constitutional law and from 1852 on civil procedure , commercial and bill of exchange law , in 1855 lectures on economics and in 1861 again on constitutional law. In the years 1850/1851, 1856/1857 and 1862/63 he was dean of the law faculty.

He became a member of the State Examination Commission; There he was a member of the judicial, Preses of the constitutional administrative, 1856 Preses deputy of the legal history and 1858 Preses deputy of the State Examination Commission. Since the end of 1858 he has given lectures on trade, exchange and maritime law and from 1859 on trade and trade law at the commercial academy in Vienna, which was founded in 1857 .

From 1848 to 1861 he was active in various political functions in the municipal council of Vienna and drafted its first statute, in addition he was the confidante of the mayor Johann Kaspar von Seiller .

Moritz von Stubenrauch was married to Theresia Katharina (née Schwamberg) (1810–1865) since 1838. They had two sons together.

suicide

After Moritz von Stubenrauch embezzled 28,000 guilders as a member of the board of the first Austrian aid and savings association in 1865 in order to pay the gambling debts of his son Carl von Stubenrauch, he and his wife took their own life in their villa in the Ober Sankt Veit district both were taking potassium cyanide .

He had previously revealed himself to the mayor Andreas Zelinka and he and other city councilors carried out a spontaneous collection to replace the stolen money; However, Moritz von Stubenrauch saw no future for himself and his wife because he had an additional 30,000–40,000 guilders in debts.

His son was wanted later on because he had also embezzled and stolen money.

Writing

Moritz von Stubenrauch wrote a large number of legal works and published articles in numerous specialist publications.

He took over the magazine for Austrian legal scholarship and political law , founded by Vincenz August Wagner in 1825 and continued it from 1846, together with Josef von Kudler and Eduard von Tomaschek (1810–1890) under the name of the Austrian magazine for legal and political science .

Since 1850, together with Dr. Glaser published the daily Allgemeine Österreichische Rechts-Zeitung until 1863 , which appeared until 1918 and propagated the legal and administrative reforms introduced by the government. From 1856 to 1860 he was editor of the Austrian magazine for internal administration and thus brought a new generation of legal periodicals into being.

Legal work

Due to his professional competence and his language skills, the Austrian government delegated him several times to international congresses. In 1856 he took part in the international charity congresses in Brussels and in 1857 in Frankfurt am Main . In 1858 the government sent him to the international congress for the international protection of literary and artistic property in Brussels.

From 1850 to 1860 he acted as a consultant in legislative projects in the field of copyright, and in 1858 he took part in the deliberations on the trade in grain, flour and bread, consumption tax and the rise in the cost of the most important necessities of life. The government also appointed him to the ministerial commission on the organization of the administration of justice in Vienna and the Ministry of the Interior to the commission on the Viennese municipal code.

He was a co-signer of the invitation to tender that led to the establishment of the German Lawyers' Association .

In 1854 he was added to the list of defenders at the Vienna Regional Court .

Memberships

Moritz von Stubenrauch was involved in charitable associations and was represented in a number of supervisory and control bodies in the savings bank and insurance sector.

In 1860 he was a member of the board of directors of the mortgage insurance company Vindobona and the founding committee of the mutual health and life insurance association known as Austria , in which his son Carl later also worked.

He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Agricultural Society in Vienna.

Honors

Moritz von Stubenrauch was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order .

Fonts (selection)

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STUBENRAUCH, Franz Eugen of. University of Graz, accessed on July 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Winfried Woesler: Letters to Heine 1852-1856 . S. 363. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005355-4 ( google.de [accessed on July 22, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: Newspaper for the Main / Rhön region . Mediengruppe Main-Post, September 6, 1865 ( google.de [accessed July 22, 2019]).
  4. ^ Mnemosyne: 1866 . Huhn, May 6, 1866 ( google.de [accessed July 22, 2019]).
  5. ^ Austrian magazine for internal administration . Manz, October 23, 1860 ( google.de [accessed July 22, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Stubenrauch, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stubenrauch, Moriz von; Stubenrauch, Mor. from; Edler von Stubenrauch, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1865
Place of death Vienna