Robert Hecht

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Memorial plaque in the building of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank

Robert Hecht (born March 9, 1881 in Vienna ; † May 30, 1938 in the Dachau concentration camp ) was an Austrian lawyer and top civil servant at the time of the Austrian corporate state .

Life

Robert Hecht, who was of Jewish origin, converted to Protestantism in 1900 and Catholicism in 1934. He attended the Maximilians- Gymnasium Wasagasse in Vienna- Alsergrund . He studied law at the University of Vienna from 1900 and was awarded a doctorate in 1905. jur. PhD. He began as a legal intern at a Vienna district court and became a judge in Bad Ischl in 1911 . Hecht entered the front as a lieutenant in 1914 , but was transferred to military jurisdiction after a few months . At the end of the war he was a captain auditor in the War Ministry. Hecht made a career in the aforementioned ministry, was appointed head of the section in 1925 and became an advisor and confidante of long-time Army Minister Carl Vaugoin . Since 1932, Hecht also advised Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß .

Hecht invented the legal construction that legitimized the Federal Chancellor's politically desired right to issue an emergency ordinance through a half-forgotten war-economy enabling law from 1917. Hecht was also involved in the formulation of the May Constitution of 1934 and other important laws of the authoritarian corporate state.

In 1936, Hecht became head of the Post Office Savings Bank .

Immediately after the German troops marched in, Hecht was arrested on March 12, 1938 and deported on the first transport to the Dachau concentration camp, where he soon died.

Fonts (selection)

  • Are the regulations on the staff representation of the Federal Railways valid? Manz, Vienna 1930.
  • Representation of the people and governance in the new constitution . Manz, Vienna 1934.
  • The Federal Law on the Patriotic Front . Austrian State printing office, Vienna 1936.

Awards (as of 1933)

literature

  • Peter Huemer : Section Head Robert Hecht and the Destruction of Democracy in Austria . Vienna 1975, dissertation Vienna 1968
  • Walter Kleindel, Hans Veigl : The great book of the Austrians . Vienna 1987, p. 183.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna L. Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 exits from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914: names - sources - dates . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 237.
personal data
SURNAME Pike, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1938
Place of death Dachau