Peter Joseph Kofler

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Peter Joseph Kofler, 1745

Peter Joseph Kofler, from 1750 Edler von Kofler (born July 29, 1700 in Ruffrè , South Tyrol ; † May 26, 1764 in Vienna ) was Mayor of Vienna.

Life

Originally from South Tyrol, Peter Joseph Kofler came to Vienna as a student and received his doctorate here as a Juris utriusque Doctor. He then worked in various law firms and, in 1731, was an assessor in the city court. On September 17, 1732, Kofler took the Viennese oath. In 1734 he became a judge and was a city ​​judge until 1741 . From 1741 to 1744 Kofler was mayor of Vienna for the first time, then city judge again. In 1750 Kofler was ennobled. When Mayor Andreas Leitgeb died in 1751 , Kofler took over his official duties on July 6th and held this office again from 1751 to 1764. In 1757 he became a councilor.

Peter Joseph Kofler married Flora Dominika Poli from Rovereto in 1736 , and Sophie Maria Feichtenberg in 1753. He died in 1764 in his official apartment in the lower chamber office building at Am Hof ​​9.

In 1887 the Koflergasse in Vienna- Meidling was named after the mayor. From 1883 on, today's Ludo-Hartmann-Platz was called Koflerplatz, from 1901 to 1925 Koflerpark.

meaning

Kofler held the office of mayor of Vienna for a relatively long time. He was loyal to Maria Theresa's reform policy and exercised his office in an exemplary manner in the interests of the Lower Austrian government. During his reign in 1753 an urban land register was created and the first census was held in 1754, which determined a population of around 175,000.

literature

  • Elisabeth Kleedorfer: The Viennese councilors at the time of Maria Theresa 1740-1780 . Dissertation. Vienna 1972
  • Felix Czeike: Vienna and its mayors . Jugend & Volk, Vienna 1974
  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 550.

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