Robert Davy

Robert Henry Louis Davy (born January 22, 1867 in Königsberg , † April 22, 1924 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ministerial official. Davy was provincial administrator of Burgenland from 1921 to 1922 .

Life

Davy was born the son of Scottish railroad engineer Humphrey Davy - who came from Cardross , County Dumbarton - and Floretta Marie Bensemann. He was initially a British citizen. Davy attended high school in Berlin and Schulpforta and studied oriental languages ​​at the University of Berlin and law in Leipzig and Vienna. In 1891 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and after assuming Austrian citizenship worked as an administrative lawyer.

Davy was deployed in the Silesian state government in Opava from 1891 and became a ministerial official in Vienna in the Ministry of the Interior on June 18, 1897. In 1904 he was promoted to a section council, in 1909 to a ministerial councilor. Between 1911 and 1916 he was head of the office of the Commission for the Promotion of Administrative Reform and from May 26, 1919 head of section in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education . As an official in the ministry, he headed the inter-ministerial commission for the land grabbing of Burgenland .

On February 25, 1921, he was appointed provincial administrator for Burgenland by the main committee of the National Council, whereupon he took up the position of provincial administrator on March 10th, 1921. His resignation took place on January 16, 1922, but remained in office until March 5, 1922, as he had been entrusted with running the business until the successor was appointed. As a result, Davy was again head of section in Vienna before he retired on November 30, 1922.

Robert Davy was the cousin of Walther Bensemann , the founder of Kicker magazine . The spatial planner Benjamin Davy is his great-grandson.

He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Publications

• Robert Davy: Legal Archives of Burgenland . 1920.
• Robert Davy: 's Blochziagn - A Burgenland Comedy . The Free Burgenlander, 1926.

Appointments in Davy's honor

• Dr. Robert Davy-Gasse in Eisenstadt
• Dr. Robert Davy-Gasse in Neufeld an der Leitha

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 1: (1921-1938). Rötzer, Eisenstadt 1972.
• J. Perschy: Davy, Robert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815. Austrian Academy of Sciences, November 27, 2017, accessed on October 3, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ geneanet: Bensemann, Floretta
2. ^ Benjamin Davy: Thoughts on Internationalism and Planning . In: Liverpool University Press (Ed.): The Town Planning Review . tape 89 , no. 4 , July 1, 2018.
3. ^ Robert Davy grave site , Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Group 55, Extension B, Row 3, No. 26.