Paul Vittorelli

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Paul Vittorelli (1930)
Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Paul von Vittorelli

Paul Vittorelli , until April 3, 1919 von Vittorelli , (born March 9, 1851 in Trieste , Austrian Empire , † April 20, 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and judge in imperial and republican Austria .

Life

Born in Bolzano , his father Heinrich von Vittorelli (1825–1907) had been employed in the Trieste branch of the commercial and industrial company of his father-in-law Johann Putzer von Reibegg since 1850 . In 1894 Heinrich von Vittorelli had the "ancestral Italian nobility" of the Vittorelli confirmed in Austria. The kuk regiment commander Richard von Vittorelli was a younger brother of Paul. Paul von Vittorelli married Franziska Ladenbauer (1853–1915), with whom he had three daughters.

Vittorelli studied Jus at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna and entered 1873 in the judicial service Cisleithaniens . During his studies in 1870 he became a member of the Stiria Graz fraternity .

In 1897, the execution court in Vienna , which was specifically responsible for execution (judicial seizure) , was set up according to his concept, and Vittorelli was given the management of the court until 1903. He was later appointed President of the Vienna Regional Criminal Court and the Vienna Higher Regional Court.

From October 27, 1918 on, he was a member of the so-called "Liquidation Ministry " Lammasch , which had to administer the dissolution of the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary , as far as this was possible from Vienna, Minister of Justice. From the beginning of November he handed over his agendas to the German-Austrian State Council or to the State Secretary for Justice , Julius Roller , who was appointed by it on October 30, 1918 . The formal removal of the Lammasch government by Emperor Karl I took place on November 11, 1918, when the Emperor resigned from the throne.

His professional qualifications made Vittorelli a sought-after lawyer in the new Republic of Austria . He was appointed President of the Constitutional Court , newly founded on January 25, 1919 , by the German-Austrian State Council and held this office until February 15, 1930, when all constitutional judges were reappointed following a constitutional amendment.

Fonts

  • Roman legal history and system of Roman private law by Eduard Heilfron . Edit for Austria by Paul von Vittorelli and Alfred Bloch . Berlin 1905.
  • Briefs in the execution and security proceedings , by Paul von Vittorelli, Alfred Bloch and Hanns Fischböck, Vienna 1900
  • Compilation of the instructing authorities and cashing out coffers within the meaning of § 295 of the execution order . Arrangement ... by Paul von Vittorelli with the assistance of Hans Fischböck and Josef Berkovits, Vienna 1901
  • The Constitutional Court. The special regulations applicable to him and his most important findings. As of Jan. 31 1928. Ed. By Paul Vittorelli, hand edition of the Austrian laws and ordinances. 242., Vienna, 1928

Honor grave

Paul Vittorelli is buried in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the Vienna Central Cemetery , Group 14 C, No. 5.

literature

  • Werner Ladenbauer: Dr. Paul von Vittorelli (1851–1932), last Minister of Justice of the Imperial and Royal Monarchy (1918) and President of the Constitutional Court of the First Republic (1919–1930) . Dissertation, Vienna 1997.
  • Werner Ladenbauer: "Blood is thicker than water" - The Viennese Ladenbauer family , in: Hannes Stekl (Hrsg.): Bourgeois families: Paths of life in the 19th and 20th centuries . Vienna: Böhlau, 2000 ISBN 978-3-205-98941-7 , pp. 75-108
  • Kurt Heller: The Constitutional Court. The development of constitutional jurisdiction in Austria from the beginning to the present . Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7046-5495-3 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 140-141.

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personal data
SURNAME Vittorelli, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vittorelli, Paul of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1932
Place of death Vienna