Paul Cow Chrobak

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Paul Robert Kuh-Chrobak (from 1917 to 1919 Freiherr von Kuh-Chrobak ; born March 11, 1863 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ; died January 7, 1931 in Meran , Italy ) was a senior Austro-Hungarian civil servant. In 1918 he acted as head of the kuk common finance ministry and after the end of the kuk monarchy from 1918 to 1920 as head of the liquidating common finance ministry .

Life

The son of the writer Emil Kuh studied law in Berlin and Vienna and entered civil service in 1890. In the joint finance ministry, he worked in the department for Bosnia-Herzegovina , where he developed into an expert in this area directly managed by the finance ministry. In 1910 he was appointed court counselor , in 1913 as president of the administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina and in 1914 as head of section .

Pienzenau Castle, Merano

When Hungary left the Real Union with Austria on October 31, 1918 , the joint finance ministry became obsolete. On November 4, 1918, Emperor Karl I therefore accepted the resignation of the last joint finance minister, Alexander Spitzmüller . On the same day the emperor entrusted Kuh-Chrobak with the temporary management of the ministry. On November 11, 1918, the Kaiser renounced any share in state affairs . From November 12, 1918, Kuh-Chrobak was in charge of the liquidation of the ministry, which lasted until 1920, under the supervision of the German-Austrian State Office of Finance .

He had been married to Lili Chrobak since 1896 and had a son with her. After the war he lived at his Pienzenau Castle near Merano, where Richard Strauss was one of his guests.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winkelbauer:  Kuh-Chrobak, Paul Robert Frh. Von, administrative officer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 333.
  2. ^ Article  in:  Wiener Zeitung , November 9, 1918, p. 1 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  3. ↑ StGBl. No. 5/1918 (= p. 4)
  4. ↑ Gottfried Keller, Emil Kuh: Correspondence. Edited by Irmgard Smidt, Erwin Streitfeld, Gut, Stäfa (Zurich) 1988, ISBN 3-85717-044-1 , p. 238; Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, Michaela Follner: Servants of many masters. Biographical manual of the section heads of the First Republic and 1945. Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901142-32-0 , p. 255.
  5. ^ Heinrich Treichl : Almost a century. Memories. Zsolnay, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-55205-283-6 , p. 50.
  6. ^ Richard Strauss, Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Correspondence. Complete edition. Atlantis Verlag, 1970, p. 502.
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Spitzmüller from Harmersbach entrusted with the temporary management of the kuk joint finance ministry
from November 12, 1918 head of the liquidating joint finance ministry
4 November 1918 - 1920 		-
personal data
SURNAME Cow chrobak, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuh-Chrobak, Paul Robert Freiherr von; Cow, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil servant and finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1931
Place of death Meran