Stanisław Starzyński

Stanisław Starzyński

Stanisław Starzyński (born April 18, 1853 in Snowicz , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austrian Empire , † November 17, 1935 in Lwów , Poland ) was a Polish politician, lawyer and university professor. Starzyński was from 1885 to 1888 and from 1901 to 1911 a member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat , from 1917 to its dissolution in 1918 a member of the manor house of the Reichsrat and from 1907 to 1914 a member of the Landtag of Galicia and Lodomeria .

education and profession

Stanisław Starzyński was born on April 18, 1853 in the village of Snowicz (now Snowytschi ) in the Austrian crown land of Galicia into a small noble family. He graduated from the Franz-Josef-Gymnasium in Lemberg and studied law there from 1872 at the University of Lemberg . He worked briefly as an intern in the civil service before completing his habilitation at the University of Lemberg in 1883 after a year of study in Vienna . In 1889 he became an associate professor for general and Austrian constitutional law from 1892 onwards . From 1913 to 1914 he was also rector of the University of Lviv.

Political career

From the early 1880s, Starzyński was also politically active. First he did this as a member of various business associations, from 1884 as a member of the district council in Lemberg. In the Reichsrat election in 1885 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat for the first time, where he was close to the East Galician Conservatives (Podolaks). In 1888 he resigned from the Reichsrat after having waived his mandate. In the 1901 Reichsrat election, Stanisław Starzyński was re-elected to the House of Representatives, where he joined the largest parliamentary group, the Polish Club . He then played an important role in 1906 in the negotiations on general and free (male) suffrage, which the majority of the Polish club initially rejected. As a concession to the MPs of the Polish Club, Starzyński achieved a strengthening of the powers of the state parliament, which is still part of Austrian constitutional law and known under the name "Lex Starzynski". From 1907 to 1911 Stanisław Starzyński was one of the vice-presidents of the House of Representatives.

A conflict with another Polish MP from Galicia finally heralded the end of Starzyński's political career in the Chamber of Deputies. In the discourse with Michał Bobrzyński , who was appointed imperial governor in Galicia in 1908, regarding Galician policy towards the Ukrainians , he was unable to assert himself as a hardliner. Ultimately, his re-election to the House of Representatives was therefore prevented in 1911. After that he was mainly active in the Galician state parliament , where he was a member of parliament from 1907 to 1914, and there he was primarily active as an opponent of the Ukrainian wishes for their own university. In 1914 he resigned the state parliament mandate in protest against the " Galician compensation " called state parliament electoral reform.

In July 1917, shortly before its abolition in the course of the establishment of the republic in 1918, Stanisław Starzyński was finally appointed a member of the manor in the Austrian Imperial Council. In the early years of the Second Polish Republic , Starzyński was still active in the national-conservative party spectrum, but could no longer build on his previous political influence.

literature

• H. Binder:  Stanisław Starzyński. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 112 f. (Direct links on p. 112 , p. 113 ).
• Starzyński Stanislaus, Ritter v., Dr., o. Ö. University professor, landowner. In:  Stenographic protocols of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat 1861–1918 , year 0017, XVII. Session, p. 2826 (online at ANNO ).
• Starzyński, Stanisław Ritter from Dr. iur. . In: Short biographies of parliamentarians from 1848 to 1918 , websites of the Austrian parliament .

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