Carl Giskra

Carl Giskra (also Karl Giska ) ( born January 29, 1820 Moravian- Trübau, † June 1, 1879 in Baden bei Wien ) was a politician of the empire of Austria and after 1867 the Habsburg Dual Monarchy of Austria - Hungary.

Life

Carl Giskra gained in 1840 in Vienna, the philosophical and 1843, the legal doctorate, since 1846 Supplent of political science at the University of Vienna. In the revolutionary year 1848/49 he led the Academic Legion (1848 ) in Vienna and was a deputy in the National Assembly in Frankfurt. In 1850 he returned to Vienna.

Since 1860 he worked as a lawyer in Brno; 1861-1867 Member of the German Liberal Party in the Moravian Landtag, since 1862 also in the Imperial Parliament. 1866 Carl Giskra Mayor of Brno and developed a recognized administrative and organizational activities. A street in Brno was temporarily its name. In 1867 he became president of the Austrian Chamber of Deputies and was Austrian Minister of the Interior from 1867 to 1870. He performed primarily the separation of the political administration of the judiciary. He joined in 1867 for the December Constitution and for the solution of the Concordat ( Treaty state church ), and was most recently director of "First Austrian Savings Bank "

Selfish interest in financial companies to have damaged his reputation. In 1873 he was re-elected in his constituency of Brno in Moravia in the House of Representatives.

Carl Giskra had the same son Charles ( born February 22, 1864 in Brno, † 24 October 1919 Gersau, Canton Schwyz ), who was raised in 1871 to Baron von Giskra. As a member of the Austrian Diplomatic Service in 1905 he was counselor of legation in Washington, in 1910 in Sofia, 1914 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Austria in The Hague. He is George of Schönerer have challenged to a duel because of a verbal attack on his late father.

Dr. Carl Giskra died in 1879 in a related family of about 1870 Villa in Baden near Vienna in the 70th Marchetstraße He was buried on 3 June 1879 the nearby Parco cemetery of St. Helena.