Richard Pressburger

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Richard Preßburger (also: Pressburger , born February 16, 1862 in Vienna ; † January 28, 1938 there ) was an Austrian lawyer . He appeared as a lawyer in a number of high-profile litigation, such as the first trial against Philippe Halsmann .

Life

Richard Preßburger, who was at times the public's favorite lawyer, was the son of an official. He studied in Vienna from 1881 to 1885 and obtained his doctorate in 1886. jur. From 1893 he worked as court and judge lawyer in Vienna. According to the ÖBL , he was "an extremely successful defense attorney who often achieved sensational acquittals." The most interesting cases in Bratislava are the high treason trial against the former war minister Auffenberg in 1915 and the murder trials against Hoflehner (1910), Pruscha (1925) and Halsmann (1928) / 29) as well as various political processes. Pressburger also had a civil law practice. He was a committee member of the International Bar Association , before which he gave a lecture on the death penalty in 1932. He was a staunch opponent of the death penalty, earned services in the reform of the preliminary investigation and received many honors and awards.

Artistic reception

In the movie Jump! Patrick Swayze played Pressburger . In Murder in the Burgtheater by Ivan Stanev he was played by Fabian Gerhardt at the Volksbühne Berlin . Karl Kraus published a text in Der Fackel on January 9, 1907 , in which he reacted to a publication by Pressburg. The case of the shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt under the pen of Pressburg, who had apparently written a plea for the "Captain von Köpenick" without having been appointed as his defense counsel, had degenerated into a “Viennese trash full of jury court pathetics” .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Olechowski: The Vienna Faculty of Law and Political Science, 1918-1938. V&R unipress GmbH, 2014, ISBN 978-3-899-71985-7 , p. 388 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  2. ↑ Andreas Häuser, Tod im Zillertal on www.echoonline.at
  3. ↑ Ilse Reiter: Gustav Harpner (1864-1924). Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78144-8 , p. 488 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Pressburger, Richard, Jurist , in: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 , Vol. 8 (Lfg. 38, 1981), p. 268 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Richard Preßburger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  6. ↑ Murder in the Burgtheater on www.volksbuehne.adk.de
  7. ^ Karl Kraus, Ein Plaidoyer für Wilhelm Voigt , in: Die Fackel 216, January 9, 1907 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Pressburger, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pressburger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1938
Place of death Vienna