Rudolf Kolisko

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Rudolf Kolisko (born March 15, 1859 in Vienna , † November 18, 1942 in Hollabrunn , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( DVP ).

Life

Rudolf Kolisko was born on March 15, 1859, the son of Eugen Kolisko (1811-1884), primary physician at the General Hospital in Vienna, and Luise Kolisko (* 1824), née Bach. His older brother Alexander Kolisko (1857–1918) was a pathologist and coroner in Vienna, his younger brother Hans Kolisko (1861–1917) was director of the state railways in Vienna in the period before and during the First World War .

Rudolf Kolisko attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna and passed the Matura there in 1877. He then studied at the universities of Vienna and Graz . Kolisko had been a member of the Libertas academic fraternity in Vienna since 1878 . At the end of 1878 he initiated an amendment to the statutes, according to which Jews are not to be regarded as Germans and are therefore excluded from membership. The Libertas fraternity is the first in the German-speaking area to introduce an Aryan paragraph .

In 1884 he received his doctorate in law . In the following years he worked as a lawyer in Vienna, Linz , Meran and from 1893 in Oberhollabrunn, where he opened his office in Amtsgasse 9, on the corner of Amtsplatz, which was later renamed Koliskoplatz. From 1899 to 1931 Kolisko was head of the Sparkasse Hollabrunn (until 1928 Oberhollabrunn).

In addition, Kolisko was involved in several clubs in Oberhollabrunn in a leading position:

  • Chairman of the gymnastics club 1900–1917
  • Founder and chairman of the German People's Association 1898–1917
  • Chairman of the Beautification Association in 1908
  • Chairman of the hunting club 1898–1899
  • Chairman of the Südmark Protection Association 1919–1925.

Political career

Member of the state parliament

From December 28, 1896 Kolisko was a member of the cities of Korneuburg , Oberhollabrunn and Stockerau to the Lower Austrian state parliament (8th electoral period). In this function he founded the German People's Party in Lower Austria . During this electoral term, Kolisko was a substitute member of the state committee , an organ of the state parliament with executive powers, the forerunner of today's state government. After the state parliament was prematurely dissolved by the Emperor's highest resolution on September 8, 1902, Kolisko stood for re-election for another term of office, which he only managed in the runoff election in the second ballot. Thus he was also in the 9th electoral period from December 19, 1902 to July 20, 1908 member of the state parliament.

He became known to a wider public through the so-called Lex Kolisko . In 1896, Kolisko proposed to the Lower Austrian state parliament, to which Vienna also belonged at the time, that German should be permanently established as the exclusive language of instruction at all public elementary and community schools. Although the bill received a majority of votes, Emperor Franz Joseph I refused to give the law the necessary approval, which meant that it was not legally binding. In the following years, the motion was repeatedly submitted to the state parliament for renewed resolution - even after Rudolf Kolisko left the committee - without ever becoming valid. (By 1912 the application had been submitted twelve times) The Lex Kolisko received attention in the press and in large sections of the population.

Mayor of Hollabrunn

From 1908 to 1919 Kolisko was mayor of the city of Oberhollabrunn (today Hollabrunn). During his term of office, the regulation of the Göllersbach in the city area fell from 1912 to 1914, which in the period before that repeatedly flooded parts of the city. In 1913 and 1914, a water pipeline and pumping station I in Magersdorf were built on his initiative . In 1914 a park was laid out on the area of ​​the former Upper Cemetery and named Koliskopark after the mayor .

During the First World War, Kolisko initiated a refugee camp southeast of the city. After its dissolution, the Gartenstadt district was built on the site . In 1935, the former mayor Rudolf Kolisko commissioned the Waldstiftung in Hollabrunn , which he had set up and endowed with, to build a 10.8-meter-high observation tower, the so-called Koliskowarte, on the 332-meter-high Gaisberg in Hollabrunn's church forest - the western branch of the Ernstbrunn forest . It is still a popular hiking destination today.

Awards

  • Honorary Citizen of Hollabrunn (1914)
  • Koliskopark in Hollabrunn
  • Koliskoplatz in Hollabrunn

literature

  • Rudolf Kolisko. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 84.
  • Biographical data from Rudolf Kolisko In: Biographisches Handbuch des NÖ Landtag 1861–1921. PDF; 843 kB . Accessed January 10, 2015.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 142-143.

Individual evidence

  1. John Young, Gerhard Schlass, Friedrich Wally Edgar Weiland: The Scots School in Vienna. Tradition and Commitment. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-205-98683-0 , p. 333.
  2. Michael Wladika: Hitler's generation of fathers - The origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-205-77337-5 . P. 50.
  3. Walter Höflechner: The builders of future happiness - fragment of a history of the higher education system in Austria from the beginning of the 19th century to the year 1938. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt Graz, 1988, p. 18.
  4. Herbert Fürnkranz: Spiegel einer Stadt: Street names in Hollabrunn ( PDF; 1.45 MB ), p. 8. Accessed on January 13, 2015
  5. ^ Biographical Handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921, p. 241. PDF; 843 kB . Accessed January 10, 2015.
  6. Michael Hirschfeld: The Rassenbabylon der kuk-monarchy. In: Hermann von Laer (Ed.): Multi-Kulti at the end? - Perspectives in a heterogeneous society. Vechtaer Universitätsschriften, Volume 28, Lit Berlin, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11565-2 , pp. 98 f.
  7. Joseph Freihammer: The nationality conflict in Amstetten before 1 World War . In: Local history supplement to the official gazette of the district administration Amstetten. No. 290, 1995. Online on the website of Heimatforschung Niederösterreich . Accessed January 10, 2015.
  8. Koliskowarte Hollabrunn on the website of bergfex.at Retrieved on January 13, 2015
  9. Herbert Fürnkranz: Spiegel einer Stadt: Street names in Hollabrunn ( PDF; 1.45 MB ), p. 8. Accessed on January 13, 2015