Ignaz Czapka

Ignaz Czapka ( since 1843 Knights of Winstetten, since 1860 Freiherr; born February 24, 1791 in Liebau, Moravia, † June 5, 1881 in Vienna) was an Austrian jurist, in the pre-March mayor of Vienna and during the period of neo-absolutism Vienna police director.

Life

Ignaz Czapka studied after his school years in Olomouc at the University of Vienna Jus and entered 1815 as a certified civil and criminal judges ( Czeike ) at the Vienna City a.

Mayor

1835 became deputy mayor, he was appointed in 1838 by Emperor Ferdinand I to the proposal from State Chancellor Metternich's mayor. He excelled because of his knowledge that he had acquired as a civil servant ( Czeike ).

Czapka took initiatives in the utilities sector ( 1839 founding of the market office, 1846 Construction of municipal slaughterhouses in Sankt Marx and Gumpendorf ), resulted in 1842 to take over the care in the city council and let the infrastructure ( sewer, gas lighting, water pipe, etc. ) to expand. He had, however, also deal with resulting from the industrialization social tensions that tried to hide the government through police violence and censorship.

1842 acquired Czapka for the city of Vienna, the basic rule Jägerzeile and Hundsturm that were amalgamated in 1850 with other suburbs. In the same year he was honored by the Emperor with the Knight 's Cross of the Order of Leopold and 1843 charged with the predicate of Winstetten to the peerage.

Escape and return

As the " Metternich system " on 13 March 1848 in the beginning of the March Revolution ended with the resignation and flight of Metternich, left Czapka as he could after Czeike not decide to meet the demands of the people, on March 16, 1848 Vienna also fled and was retired at his request. In revolutionary Vienna he played in the minds of many Viennese gave the only one's own advantage officialdom.

In the polemical pamphlet entitled The magistratisch - political prey nest or the Viennese magistrate officials bureaucracy, which was bought by the Austrian National Library in 2011, Czapka was therefore known by the Viennese grocer Anton Ullmeyer as one of several Erzhalunken. He was accused of oppression and exploitation by traders and abuse of office. To illustrate the pamphlet Czapka showed as robber captain on the gallows.

After the House of Habsburg had replaced at the end of the Revolutionary year 1848 the monarch could Czapka in Neoabsolutism Franz Joseph I connect it to its pre-revolutionary career. He came in May 1849, returned to Vienna and was 1850/1851 worked as a local council.

Chief of Police

In 1856 he became the emperor to the proposal of the military governor of Vienna and top police chiefs of the monarchy, Johann Kempen of spruce root, was appointed chief of police of Vienna. ( The police were then organized militarily. ) 1859 retired as Kempen, walked in the same year also Czapka retired.

The Emperor gave him on 28 February 1860 Order of the Iron Crown, Second Class; Czapka exercised its associated therewith right to request the survey in the baron. 1861-1863 Czapka was again elected municipal council.

Commemoration

In Vienna, the Czapkagasse was named in the 3rd district three months after Czapkas death in 1881. 110 years later, a scale at the address Czapkagasse 17 between the houses Czapkapark Park was named in 1991.

The year of birth Czapkas is often mistakenly given as 1792.

Franz Eybl History of Vienna Anton Joseph Leeb Johann Kaspar von Seiller Integrated Authority File

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