Robert Holzknecht from Hort

Robert Holzknecht Ritter von Hort (born April 2, 1838 in Tischnowitz , Margraviate of Moravia , † July 12, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian administrative lawyer and minister of justice.

Robert Holzknecht Knight of Hort

Life

Robert Holzknecht attended high school in Tischnowitz and studied law at the universities of Vienna and Graz . After graduating as Dr. jur. in Graz in 1866, he entered the civil service at the Vienna Regional Court and was transferred to the Ministry of Justice in 1879. Promoted to Ministerial Secretary in 1881, he was then on leave to work in Portugal as tutor to the royal Prince Alfons . In 1883 he came back to the Ministry of Justice, where he was Ministerialrat in 1891 and Section Head in 1906. In 1884 he was knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph I with the title of nobility "von Hort".

From November 15, 1908 to February 10, 1909, Holzknecht was the Austrian Minister of Justice in the Bienerth civil servants' government . Like most of his ministerial colleagues, he had been appointed the senior section head of his ministry. When the second Bienerth cabinet was formed on a parliamentary basis, Viktor von Hochenburger succeeded him as minister. In 1910 he retired.

On November 16, 1911, there was an assassination attempt in Holzknecht's apartment at Bäckerstrasse 10 in downtown Vienna . His 24-year-old daughter Marie and his 17-year-old son Georg died when the 26-year-old legal intern Richard Matkovic was shot at the revolver, who had been the family tutor for nine years. The 21-year-old son Robert survived a lung shot. Matkovic shot himself. The motive for the act was probably Holzknecht's refusal to accept Matkovic as his son-in-law.

Individual evidence

^ Holzknecht von Hort, Robert (1838-1918), lawyer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 411.
↑ ^a ^b Alois Czedik von Bründlsberg and Eysenberg : On the history of the kk Austrian ministries, 1861-1916. Based on the memories of Alois von Czedik. Volume 4: Period 1908-1916. K. Prochaska, Teschen / Vienna 1920, pp. 5 and 123.
↑ A bloody act on Bäckerstrasse. Wiener Zeitung of January 5, 2018.
Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Austria's fateful years 1908–1919. Josef Redlich's political diary . Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 113.

personal data
SURNAME	Holzknecht von Hort, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holzknecht Ritter von Hort, Robert; Holzknecht, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian administrative lawyer and minister of justice
DATE OF BIRTH	April 2, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tischnowitz , Margraviate of Moravia
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1918
Place of death	Vienna

[ÖBL-1] Holzknecht von Hort, Robert (1838-1918), lawyer. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 411.

[Czedik-2] Alois Czedik von Bründlsberg and Eysenberg : On the history of the kk Austrian ministries, 1861-1916. Based on the memories of Alois von Czedik. Volume 4: Period 1908-1916. K. Prochaska, Teschen / Vienna 1920, pp. 5 and 123.

[3] A bloody act on Bäckerstrasse. Wiener Zeitung of January 5, 2018.
Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Austria's fateful years 1908–1919. Josef Redlich's political diary . Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 113.