Robert Neumann-Ettenreich

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Robert Neumann-Ettenreich (born January 8, 1857 in Vienna ; † March 26, 1926 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and judge . Neumann-Ettenreich was a member of the Administrative Court from 1905 to 1917 , a member of the Reichsgericht from 1917 until its dissolution in 1919 and a member of the Constitutional Court from 1919 until his death .

Career

Robert Neumann-Ettenreich was born on January 8, 1857 in Vienna as the son of the major of the Austro-Hungarian Army Robert Ritter von Neumann-Ettenreich and his wife Barbara. He spent his childhood in Verona, then Austria, and then in Olomouc . Finally, he attended high school in Vienna and graduated from the University of Vienna , the study of law , where he became a doctor of law ( Dr. iur. ) Graduated was. His first legal practice position was in 1878 as a legal intern at the Wieden District Court . In 1879 he became auskulant .

In 1880 Robert Neumann-Ettenreich received the Haber-Luisberg travel grant in the amount of 1200 florins for a work "on the origin and the explanation of positive legal propositions from actual living conditions". The subsequent study trip took Neumann-Ettenreich first to Paris and then to Rudolf von Jhering at the University of Göttingen . He completed his legal practice at the District Court of Wieden and the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna . As early as 1884, his first work with the title “The Landlord's Legal Lien” was printed and published. In 1886 he was transferred to the court adjunct in Oberhollabrunn , in 1888 to the district court of Währing and in 1891 to the regional court for civil law matters in Vienna .

The President of the Higher Regional Court, Carl Chorinský , subsequently commissioned Robert Neumann-Ettenreich with the creation of a program for the establishment of the then planned Auskulant courses, with Neumann-Ettenreich being appointed to head it and this remained until 1901. At the same time he was appointed Council Secretary in 1894 and received a teaching position for civil law at the Kk Academy for Oriental Languages . In 1895 he rose to the position of regional judge and professor at the academy.

Robert Neumann-Ettenreich took part in the major reform of the Austrian civil procedure law , which was imminent at that time, as an assistant to Franz Klein and, on his behalf, created the official “Forms Book for the Code of Civil Procedure and Execution”, which appeared in 1897. When the new code of civil procedure came into force in 1898, Robert Neumann-Ettenreich was the head of the first oral dispute hearing after the reform. In 1899 he rose to the higher regional court advisor at the regional court for civil law matters, in 1900 he became a member of the judicial state examination commission, of which he was a vice-president until his death.

In 1904 and 1905 Robert Neumann-Ettenreich worked as a judge at the Higher Regional Court of Vienna before he was appointed to the Administrative Court in 1905 . There he was in the finance senate, but also in trademark and privilege matters in the general senate. In 1917 he retired as President of the Senate of the Administrative Court before he was appointed to the Reich Court by the members of the manor house of the Austrian Reichsrat that same year . After the end of the monarchy and the transition to the republic, the new government appointed Neumann-Ettenreich in 1919 as a member of the German-Austrian constitutional court . With the introduction of the Federal Constitutional Law in 1920 , the Constitutional Court was reorganized and in 1921 Robert Neumann-Ettenreich was reappointed as a member at the suggestion of the government. He was a permanent speaker and reporter for the Constitutional Court until his death on March 26, 1926.

family

Robert Neumann-Ettenreich was a son of the Austrian officer Robert Ritter von Neumann -Ettenreich (1825-1880) and his wife Barbara (nee Ettenreich). He was a grandson of Josef Ettenreich , who in 1853 saved the life of Emperor Franz Joseph I by intervening in the assassination attempt on the emperor , whereupon he was personally elevated to the hereditary nobility . Robert Neumann-Ettenreich was therefore born as Robert von Neumann-Ettenreich and lost the title of nobility in the course of the transition from monarchy to republic and the associated nobility annulment law . He became the father of a daughter and two sons, one of whom died in World War I in 1914 and the second, Robert Ettenreich , later became known as a physicist and radio pioneer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Neschwara : Constitutional jurisdiction in the area of ​​tension between monarch and parliament: Austria's Imperial Court from 1869 to 1918 . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . German Department . tape 123 , 2006, p. 310–342 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.2006.123.1.310 .
  2. ↑ Christian Neschwara: Constitutional jurisdiction in the area of ​​tension between government and parliament: Austria's Constitutional Court 1918–1934 . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . tape 130 , 2013, p. 435–453 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.2013.130.1.435 .
  3. ^ Christian Neschwara: The members of the Constitutional Court 1919–1934 . In: Kurt Heller (Ed.): The Constitutional Court. The development of constitutional jurisdiction in Austria from the beginning to the present . Verlag Österreich, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7046-5495-3 , pp. 601–610, here p. 606 .
personal data
SURNAME Neumann-Ettenreich, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann-Ettenreich, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1926
Place of death Vienna