Salo from Weisselberger

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Salo from Weisselberger

Salo Edler von Weisselberger ( Hebrew סאלו וייסלברגר), also Weiszelberger or Aislberger, (* 1867 in Draczinetz (Drăcineț) near Kotzman (Cozmeni) , Bukowina ; † on March 15, 1931 in Vienna ), was a doctor of law , k. u. k. and Romanian politician, judge, head of the Jewish community, member of the Bukovinian state parliament and mayor of Chernivtsi (Cernăuți) , later a member of the Romanian Senate and then of the House of Representatives.

Life

Coat of arms of the Salo von Weisselberger 1916
Grave of Salo von Weisselberger in the Vienna Central Cemetery

The son of the landowner Joel Weisselberger and Jenta Rosenzweig studied law at the University of Chernivtsi . Due to his excellent test results, he became a judge at the regional court of the kuk railway in 1892 .

Between 1911 and 1914 he was elected as a representative of the “National Jewish People's Party”, whose chairman was Benno Strauch , in the Bucovina state parliament.

After he had also been Vice Mayor of Czernowitz for several years, he was elected the new mayor of the city on November 4, 1913 after the resignation of his predecessor Felix Baron Fürth on October 26, 1913 . When the Imperial Russian Army occupied the capital of the Habsburg Crown Land, he duly surrendered it, remained in office for a short time, but was only a few weeks later - after the appointment of a civil governor - together with other notables such as Nicu Flondor , Mayer Ebner , Phillip Menczel and Edward Bibring , deported to Siberia , from where he only returned after 14 months as part of a prisoner exchange.

For his impeccable behavior in the crisis as well as his hardships and personal sacrifices, he was raised to the nobility with a diploma from February 13, 1916 on September 4, 1917 with "Edler von".

After the collapse of the Danube Monarchy and the annexation of the Buchenland to the Kingdom of Romania , he was elected to the Senate for four years for the “ Partidul Național Liberal (PNL) ” on March 17, 1922 , and then to the House of Representatives for two years. During the constitutional debate, he vehemently advocated the naturalization of all and not just the "old Jews" to Romania. The party's goals were achieved in 1923 with the support of Alexandru Averescu .

Seriously ill, he died in a sanatorium in Vienna and was then buried in the new Jewish section of the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 10, Rondeau, No. 12). Like his predecessor, Eduard Reiss, Mayor of Chernivtsi, he was a Jew who professed to be German .

Works

  • Memoriu asupra evenimentelor petrecute în Bucovina în luna lui September 1914. Cernăuți 1916.
  • Compte rendu des événements perpétrés en Bucovine au mois de septembre 1914. Cernăuți 1916 (edition in French).

literature

  • Hildrun Glass: minority between two dictatorships. On the history of the Jews in Romania. Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56665-2 .
  • Hugo Gold : History of the Jews in Bukowina: A compilation. Volume 2, Verlag Edition "Olamenu," Tel Aviv 1962.
  • Mariana Hausleitner : The Romanization of Bukovina. The enforcement of the nation-state claim of Greater Romania. Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2001.
  • Ernst Hofbauer : Blown away tracks. Publisher Ibera, Vienna 1999.
  • Hermann Sternberg: On the history of the Jews in Czernowitz. Edition “Olamenu”, Tel Aviv 1962.
  • Jan Županič: Židovská šlechta podunajské monarchy. Mezi Davidovou hvězdou a křížem (The Jewish Nobility of the Danube Monarchy. Between the Star of David and the Cross) , Nakladatelství Lidové Noviny Publishing House, Prague 2012.

Web links

Commons : Salo von Weisselberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jewishgen.org
  2. ↑ Bukovinaer Post , Thursday, November 6, 1913, p. 1.
  3. ↑ Ernst Hofbauer : Blown traces. Verlag Ibera, Vienna 1999, p. 159.
  4. ↑ Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in Bukowina. Verlag "Der Südostdeutsche", Munich 1983, p. 139.
  5. ^ General administrative archive, aristocratic archives, file Dr. Salo Weisselberger 1917
  6. ↑ Hildrun Glass: Minority between two dictatorships. On the history of the Jews in Romania. Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 25.
  7. ^ Marsha L. Rozenblit: Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War. Oxford University Press US, 2004, p. 272.
  8. ↑ Dietmar Müller: Citizens by Revocation: Jews and Muslims as Alterity Partners in the Romanian and Serbian National Code . Harrassowitz-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, p. 266
  9. ↑ edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
  10. ^ Helmut Braun: Chernivtsi: the history of a lost cultural metropolis . Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2005, p. 53
personal data
SURNAME Weisselberger, Salo from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiszelberger, Salo von; Aislberger, Salo; Salo Edler von Weisselberger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish politicians
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Draczinetz (Drăcineț) near Kotzman (Cozmeni) , Bukowina
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1931
Place of death Vienna