Walter Breisky

Walter Breisky (born July 8, 1871 in Bern , Switzerland ; † September 25, 1944 in Klosterneuburg , Lower Austria by suicide ) was an Austrian civil servant and politician .

Life

Walter Breisky studied law and began his civil service career in 1895 as a concept officer in the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy. In 1905 he became a consultant for Protestant cult in the Ministry of Education, and from 1907 he worked in the press department of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers. In 1919 he became section head .

On July 7, 1920, Breisky was elected to the Mayr I state government as State Secretary (= Minister) for Interior and Education via the party list of the Christian Social Party of Austria (CS) . According to Ignaz Seipel , the department to which the CS is entitled should be occupied by a trusted expert who, however, has to lead it as an "impartial official". From 1920 to 1922 he was - formally as a representative of the Christian Socials - entrusted with the office of Vice Chancellor and with the management of the Ministry of the Interior and Education.

He acted for a day, on April 26-27. January 1922, as Federal Chancellor and 1923–1931 as President of the Federal Statistical Office .

In 1926 he was elected to the board of the Pan-European Movement .

Walter Breisky was temporarily arrested by the Gestapo in September 1944 after his housekeeper denounced him "for listening to the enemy broadcaster BBC ". After returning to his house in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, the former politician put an end to his life the next day. He was buried in the Upper City Cemetery in Klosterneuburg.

Fonts

• with Wilhelm Winkler : The world situation of statistics. J. Springer, Vienna 1930.

literature

• Breisky Walter. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 110 f. (Direct links on p. 110 , p. 111 ).
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Breisky Walter. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 452 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gernot Stimmer: Elites in Austria 1848-1970. Volume 2 (=  Ernst Bruckmüller , Klaus Poier , Gerhard Schnedl, Eva Schulev-Steindl [Hrsg.]: Studies on politics and administration . Volume 57 ). Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-205-98587-7 , pp. 808 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Anita Prettenthaler-Ziegerhofer: European Christian Democrats and the Paneuropean Movement . In: Wolfram Kaiser, Michael Gehler , Helmut Wohnout (eds.): Christian Democracy in Europe in the 20th Century (=  European Integration Working Group. Historical Research. Publications . Volume 4 ). Böhlau, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-205-99360-5 , p. 585 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Short-term Chancellor: "Let Breisky and his team work." ; accessed on November 8, 2017
4. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Breisky Walter. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 452 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry on Walter Breisky in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Literature by and about Walter Breisky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter Breisky on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Short-term Chancellor: "Let Breisky and his team work." In: Kurier of October 25, 2017.