Richard Weiskirchner

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Richard Weiskirchner, photographed by Ferdinand Schmutzer (around 1912)

Richard Weiskirchner (born March 24, 1861 in Vienna - Margareten ; † April 30, 1926 in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer and Christian social politician.

Life

Steep civil servant career

Weiskirchner was the son of a school teacher and a homeowner, attended a high school in the 6th district and studied at the University of Vienna Jus (Dr. jur.). He was a member of the Catholic Austrian Student Union Austria Vienna, then in the CV , today in the ÖCV .

In 1883, immediately after graduating, he joined the legal service of the City of Vienna as a concept officer . In 1901, under the Christian Socialist Karl Lueger, he became magistrate deputy director, and in 1903, still under Lueger, he was promoted to magistrate director , the top official responsible only to the mayor. In 1910 he retired as a civil servant.

Politicians in multiple functions

From 1897 to 1911 Richard Weiskirchner was a member of the Reichsrat ( IX. , X. and XI. Legislative periods ), 1907-1909 President of the House of Representatives. 1898–1915 he was also a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag . 1909–1911 he was Imperial and Royal Minister of Commerce in Richard von Bienerth-Schmerling's cabinet . In 1910, after his retirement, he was elected to the local council ( right to vote in the curia ).

After Lueger's death in 1910, due to his three existing political functions, he still refused to be mayor, in December 1912 he accepted the election by the local council.

Mayor of Vienna

Weiskirchen was mayor of Vienna from January 1913 to May 1919 . In the one and a half years of peace before the beginning of the First World War , he continued the dynamic urban development pursued by Lueger. During the four years of the war he had to fight the deficiency symptoms that soon arose in order to secure the city's supply. In 1917/1918 Weiskirchner, appointed by Emperor Karl I , was a member of the manor house of the Reichsrat (see list ).

In December 1918, one month after the end of Austria-Hungary , the provisional council elected him again as mayor. After the municipal council election in 1919 , the first in which all Viennese had equal voting rights and in which the Social Democrats achieved an absolute majority, in May 1919 he handed over the office to Jakob Reumann , the first mayor of “Red Vienna” .

Parliamentarians of the Republic

From March 4, 1919 to October 1, 1920 he was a member of the Constituent National Assembly of German Austria and Austria for the Christian Socials, and then from November 10, 1920 to 1923 President of the National Council ( 1st legislative period ).

His honorary grave is located in Vienna on the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 5, number 286).

Honor

In 1932, Weiskirchnerstrasse was named after him in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) .

Works

  • Austrian city codes. The municipal regulations and municipal election regulations of the cities with their own statutes of the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe with the supplementary laws Zsgst. by Carl Brockhausen and Richard Weiskirchner. Vienna 1895
  • The cartel system from the standpoint of the Christian economic conception. Vienna 1896
  • The poor relief of a big city. Vienna 1896
  • Urban housing policy. Warnsdorf 1917

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Vienna and its mayors. Seven centuries of Viennese city history. Youth and Volk, Vienna et al. 1974. ISBN 3-8113-6078-7 .
  • Karl Harrer: Dr. Richard Weiskirchner. Dissertation, Vienna 1950.
  • Christian Mertens: Richard Weiskirchner (1861–1926). The unknown mayor of Vienna. Publishing house for history and politics, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-486-58055-8 ( Austria archive = writings of the Institute for Austrian Studies ).

Web links

Commons : Richard Weiskirchner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matricula Online - Vienna - St. Josef zu Margareten, Baptism Book 1861, page 57, entry No. 289, 4th line
  2. ^ Matricula Online - Vienna - Maria Hietzing, death book 1921–1934, page 53, entry no. 17, 5th line
personal data
SURNAME Weiskirchner, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and Christian social politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1926
Place of death Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna