Thaddäus Peithner of Lichtenfels

Thaddäus Peithner von Lichtenfels (caricature from 1870)

Thaddäus Peithner Edler von Lichtenfels , since 1852 Freiherr von Lichtenfels (born May 6, 1798 in Vienna , † October 2, 1877 ibid), was an Austrian lawyer and politician.

Life

Thaddäus Peithner was born as the son of the Imperial and Royal Court Concepter Johann Thaddäus Peithner Edler von Lichtenfels and his second wife Maria Anna nee. Geyer von Ehrenberg was born in Vienna. He was the grandson of the mining scientist Johann Thaddäus Anton Peithner von Lichtenfels .

From 1816 to 1819 he studied law at the University of Vienna , where he obtained his doctorate in 1822. Since 1818 he was active as an auscultant at the Schotten Abbey Court and from 1820 in the Imperial Court and Lower Austrian Chamber Procuratorate. Then he left Vienna again and in 1824 became secretary of the Innerberg main trade union in Eisenerz and in 1834 worked at the appellate court in Klagenfurt . Since 1841 he was based in Vienna, where he was initially a councilor to the Supreme Judicial Office, but at the same time was also an advisor to the court commission on judicial law matters.

In 1850 he became General Procurator at the Supreme Court, which corresponds to a current Chief Public Prosecutor. After all, he was section head in the Ministry of Justice from 1852 to 1857. On March 12, 1852, according to the diploma, he was raised to the status of Austrian hereditary baron . During this time he worked out a number of important bills. He took on a political function in 1857 when he became a member of the Imperial Council. From 1861 a member of the manor house, he was President of the State Council. As an outstanding constitutional lawyer, he was the political representative of a centralized Austrian state idea.

Honors

In 1849, Peithner von Lichtenfels received the ku Sankt Stephans-Order , in 1853 he became a Privy Councilor. After his death in 1880, Lichtenfelsgasse in Vienna's Inner City was named after him.

family

Thaddäus Peithner von Lichtenfels married Anna Kurzweil (born October 7, 1802 in Freudenthal; † April 10, 1834 in Vienna) in his first marriage on September 27, 1827 in Eisenerz and with Johanna Schwarz in his second marriage on January 10, 1836 in Eisenerz (* August 2, 1813). The following children emerged from the marriages:

• Victor Emanuel (born April 8, 1832), doctor of medicine and surgery
• Marie (born October 6, 1836)
• Wolfgang (born December 20, 1840)
• Squidward (born December 18, 1846)
• Oscar (born February 24, 1852)

literature

• B. Böck:  Peithner von Lichtenfels Thaddäus Frh .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 393 f. (Direct links on p. 393 , p. 394 ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Lichtenfels, Thaddäus Peithner Freiherr von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 15th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1866, pp. 79–82 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Heinrich Reusch :  Lichtenfels, Thaddaeus Peithner Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 542-550.
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna Volume 4 . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995