Adolf Fischhof

Adolf Ephraim Fischhof ( born December 8, 1816 in Oven (Budapest ), † 23 March 1893, in Emmer village, now part of Klagenfurt) was an Austrian physician and liberal politician.

Life

Adolf Fischhof, little son of wealthy Jewish parents, attended the gymnasium in Pest, where he sat with fellow believers on the "Jew banking ", and studied medicine in Vienna from 1836 to 1844. As a young doctor, he participated in the March Revolution. His speech on press freedom in the courtyard of the Lower Austrian country house in Herrengasse on March 13, is a breaking of the Viennese March Revolution of 1848 He represented not only the liberal demands of the revolution, but turned even at this stage the dominant theme of his political activity. : the balance between the nationalities of the Habsburg multinational state. In March 1848, he was the medical corps of the academic legion of organized revolutionary student body, was elected commander, was a member of the political Central Committee and President of the Security Committee. He later represented the district of Vienna Matzleinsdorf in the constituent Reichstag. At this meeting and in the Constitutional Committee, he played a prominent role. On working out of the draft Constitution of April 25, 1848 he was instrumental.

From the Liberal Ministry Anton Doblhoff -Dier Fischhof was appointed Ministerial Counsellor to the Ministry of the Interior. A post he held until October 1848. Upon dissolution of the Reichstag of Kremsier March 7, 1849 Fischhof of sedition and treason was arrested, tried, but acquitted after almost nine months of preventive detention for lack of evidence.

Fischhof then devoted himself to medical practice. After the political landscape had again become liberal, he published in March 1861 together with the later Minister Joseph Unger Scripture To solve the Hungarian questions in the dualism has been advocated, and after the German War of 1866, the patriotic held, persons struggling with discouragement brochure A look at Austria's position. End of 1869, he published Austria and the guarantees of its existence, in which he recommended a federalist structure. In its various memoranda he designed the proposal for a system of " mansions " that should take care of each to the cultural and linguistic affairs of individual nations, as well as national tribunals and legislation which equal the various languages ​​, though retaining the German as the official language should be treated. He also campaigned for universal and equal suffrage.

Already in 1867 had Fischhof by an amnesty get back full rights of citizenship, his wise judgment was highly valued, leading statesmen had consulted with him, but he refused in 1870 a ministerial post under Alfred Józef Potocki from, " this very reason, because he would be at this price have to renounce Judaism. "

For health reasons, he finally gave his political and medical work up and moved in 1875 with his brother Simon to a modest country house, the Koglhof, in Emmer village near Klagenfurt, where he free medical care to the villagers, " a friend and advisor to all those who sought him, the famous physician and noble people help. he never took a penny for his medical care, but he appeared in the humble peasant hut with refreshment and words of comfort for the patient, " as the rabbis and the Imperial Council deputy Joseph Samuel Bloch reported in his memoirs.

Three years later, it arrived here in the house of the " Elders of Emmer village" and in his František Ladislav (Franz Ladislaus ) Rieger as the representative of the Czech liberals expressly ausbedungenen presence for talks between Rieger and Michael Etienne, co-founder and editor of the Neue Freie Presse as a prominent representative of the German Liberals, consultations, including Alexander Sharp, the founder and editor of the Wiener Zeitung Sundays and Monday attended. After the recovery, the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, the " Emmer villages Memorandum" aimed that emerged from these discussions, now on a balance between Germans and Czechs in the monarchy from and recorded, without going into details and legal intricacies, the guidelines for future policy of reconciliation before, but remained as a result of completely centralized aligned German liberal deputies who could not win a national policy of accommodation by Etienne unsuccessful.

After this disappointment entered Fischhof until 1882 once the political arena by trying to set up together with Robert Walter churches a German People's Party, which was to occupy in the nationality question a compromise readier position as the centralized German Liberals and establish a coalition of all the liberal elements. His speech in this regard in the Vienna Musikverein was reprinted in Klagenfurt newspaper from 21 to 23 July 1882. However, the party failed to form the resistance of the Constitution Party, whereupon Fischhof finally retired from politics. When he died eleven years later, " rang all the bells of Emmer village", and after his lying in state in the Israelite House of Prayer in Klagenfurt accompanied a large number of mourners his coffin to Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof, because at his request Fischhof was then buried in the Viennese central cemetery. His grave is located at Gate 1, Group 5b, Series 1, No. 3 The grave stone bears the most significant sentence from his speech in the great revolution Herrengasse including their date:

In 1979 ( 10th district ) was named after him in the Fischhofgasse Wien Favoriten, in Klagenfurt- Emmer village bears the Dr.- Fischhof road since 1992 his name.