Johann Nepomuk Berger (politician)

Johann Nepomuk Berger, pseudonym: Sternau, ( born September 16, 1816 in Proßnitz, Moravia, † December 9, 1870 in Vienna) was a politician, writer and lawyer.

Life

Berger studied law, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Vienna and 1841 doctorate. In 1844 he became an assistant for nature and Criminal Law at Theresianumgasse in Vienna. From June 1848 to April 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and was one of the shrewdest and wittiest speaker at the extreme left. After that, he was court and court lawyer in Vienna and was elected in March 1861 in the state parliament of Lower Austria. In 1863 he was sent to the House of Representatives and joined first the Liberal Party and founded in 1867 the club left in the Imperial Parliament. As representatives of the compensatory idea of constitutionalism and Berger was appointed as minister without portfolio in the "Citizens Ministry " on December 30, 1867. On 15 January 1870 he was dismissed by the emperor on his request from the ministerial office, and at the same time put his positions as parliamentary and imperial parliaments down. He came out as two other ministers from the government because it had remained on the issue of federalism in the minority.

In 1894 in Vienna Ottakring ( 16th District ) the Johann Nepomuk Berger- square was named after him.

Publications

• Freedom of the press and the press law (Vienna 1848)
• The Austrian Exchange Regulation of January 25, 1850 ( 1850)
• Critical contributions to the theory of the Austrian general private law (Vienna 1856)
• About the Death Penalty (1864 )
• To solve the Austrian constitutional issue (1861 )