Wilhelm Marx von Marxberg

Wilhelm Marx von Marxberg (bottom left) in the commemorative publication Sixty Years of the Vienna Security Guard , published in 1929

Wilhelm Freiherr Marx von Marxberg (born December 21, 1815 in Großseelowitz , Moravia , † August 22, 1897 in Mödling near Vienna ) was an Austrian lawyer and the Vienna police chief.

Life

From 1827 to 1832 he attended the state high school in Brno . Wilhelm Marx studied from 1834 to 1838 Jus at the University of Vienna and then joined as an intern at the court of the pin Schottenstift one. He passed the judge's examination and became a concept intern at the Vienna Police Headquarters. In the revolutionary year of 1848 he was involved in researching the Wiedner looters and the murderers of War Minister Theodor Baillet von Latour .

In 1852 he became the second class police director of Kaschau in what is now eastern Slovakia, which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary , which was ruled from Vienna until 1867 . In 1871 he was appointed Police Director of Prague . During the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 , which was connected with a large-scale deployment of the Vienna police, he was appointed police chief of Vienna because his predecessor had suddenly died. In 1874 he brought about the use of a former hotel building in Vienna 1., Schottenring 11, which began in 1875 and ended in 1945, as the kk police headquarters . In 1875 he was ennobled and in 1881 he was made a baron . In 1874 and 1875, Marx von Marxberg and his wife Louise were in Karlsbad for a cure, as Karl Marx has told us. On September 10, 1880, he had sent the Berlin Police President Guido von Madai a copy of the minutes of the first illegal party congress of the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany from the Wyden party congress in 1880 .

After the ring theater fire in December 1881, he was criticized for security deficiencies, then submitted his resignation and was retired in 1882.

Wilhelm Marx von Marxberg had a daughter Hermine Freiin von Marxberg (born November 6, 1886, † July 15, 1981)

Works

• The police administration of Vienna in 1877. Compiled and published by the Presidium of the KK Police Direction, preface by Marx Ritter von Marxberg . Hölder, Vienna 1879
• The police administration of Vienna in 1878. Compiled and published by the Presidium of the KK Police Direction, preface by Marx Ritter von Marxberg . Hölder, Vienna 1880

literature

• J. Marx:  Marx von Marxberg Wilhelm Frh .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 121 f. (Direct links on p. 121 , p. 122 ).
• Hermann Oberhummer: The Vienna Police. New contributions to the history of the security system in the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Vol. 2. Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1938, pp. 77, 121, 146, 216, 217, 267, 277, 314, 315
• Hermann Oberhummer: The members of the Vienna Police Department (1754-1900). An addendum to the history of the Vienna police . Gerold, Vienna 1937, pp. 11 and 31 ff.
• dd Walther Victor : Karl Marx in Karlsbad. On the 55th anniversary of his death on March 15th . In: Volks-Illustrierte , 1938, No. 11 supplement

credentials

1. ^ History of the German State Higher School in Brno. From the foundation of the same in 1578 to 1878. Festschrift for the jubilation celebration of its 300 year old existence . Brno 1878, p. 167.
2. ^ Egon Erwin Kisch : Karl Marx in Karlsbad . 3rd edition, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1983, p. 11.
3. ↑ Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels August 21, 1875: "My namesake, the police director of Vienna, is so good as to always arrive with me at the same time." Quoted from: Marx-Engels-Werke . Volume 34, p. 6.
4. ^ Karl Obermann , Josef V. Polišenský : From 500 years of German-Czechoslovak history . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1958, p. 349.
5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 17 (Volume 130). Starke, Limburg 2003, p. 443.