Michael Hainisch

Michael Arthur Joseph Jacob Hainisch ( born August 15, 1858 in Aue at Schott Vienna (Lower Austria ), † February 26, 1940 in Vienna) was an Austrian -partisan social and economic policy-makers and 1920-1928 President of the Republic of Austria. He replaced Karl Seitz from as head of state.

Life

Michael Hainisch was the son of the Austrian women's rights activist Marianne Hainisch, born Perger who had married in 1857, the industrialist family Hainisch and lived with her husband, Michael, on the property of the cotton mill Aue at Schott Vienna. In the operation associated, probably finished in 1788, Mansion [note 1] [note 2 ] was born Hainisch.

After his legal studies at the Universities of Leipzig and Vienna (1882 Doctorate in Law. Vienna ), he studied in Berlin economics at Adolph Wagner and Gustav von Schmoller ( sat with him in the seminar Hermann Bahr ) and was from 1886 to 1890 at the Imperial Civil service operates. Then he focused on agricultural and socio-political problems and used the Good in Spital am Semmering, which had given him his wife Emilie Auguste Figdor, as a model operation for practical solutions - famous was his brood cow "Bella" with record milk yields.

In Vienna, he worked as an educational worker and co-founder of the Vienna Central Library and the German Gymnastics Association ( 1890). He supported Ludo Moritz Hartmann's initiative to establish the first public high school in Austria. On 2 December 1900, calling for the constitution of a People's University was released, he signed as Ernst Mach, Mayreder and Julius Tandler. Because of his belief, liberal-minded and large- German, he is counted among the Austrian Fabians, but remained despite its proximity to the Greater German People's Party party affiliation. In 1918 he became General of the Austro -Hungarian Bank, the central bank of the decaying in the same year Austria - Hungary.

Michael Hainisch was proposed by the Christian Social Party, which had their own candidate Viktor Kienböck not squandered, elected on December 9, 1920 by the Federal Assembly (National Council and the Federal Council in joint session ) the first President of the Republic of Austria and remained so after his reelection in 1924 to the December 10, 1928. He replaced Karl Seitz from, who has served as President of the National Assembly of his appointment to this office on March 5, 1919 and for the affirmation of Hainischs as head of state, without this connection to carry a title. Previously, jointly held this office on 30 October 1918, the three equal President of the Provisional National Assembly.

The federal president was not fitted until 1929 with the rights conferred on him the constitutional amendment in 1929; the Federal Government was elected at that time ( as since 1949, for example, the German Chancellor ) by Parliament and not, as appointed by the Federal President in 1930.

Due to its correct official guide Hainisch was recognized in all political camps. He was the patron of agriculture, electrification of railways, tourism, the Austro- German trade, rural traditions and the creation of a conservation law. After his second term as president, he served 1929/1930 as a non-party trade ministers in the Cabinet Schober III.

1938, said Michael Hainisch as the respected Social Democrat Karl Renner as a staunch Great German for the " Anschluss" of the German Reich.

Hainisch had, inter alia, an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck and was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences. Hainischs tomb is located on the northwestern slope of the sheep Kogels in Eichberg at Kreuzberg.

Works

  • The future of the German Austrians. A statistically - economic study, 1892
  • The struggle for existence and Social Policy, 1899
  • Homework in Austria. Report refunded the international association for legal protection of workers, 1906
  • The emergence of the interest on capital, 1907
  • Some new figures on the statistics of the German Austrians, 1909
  • The grain monopoly, 1916
  • Is the interest on capital entitled? Limits and conditions of socialism, 1919
  • Economic conditions of German Austria, 1919 [ reprint 1992 ]
  • The internal colonization in German - Austria, 1920
  • The rural exodus, their nature and poverty in the context of agrarian reform, 1924
  • Speaking at the graduation to the Honorary Doctor of Political Sciences, 1925
  • From my ' Leb'n, 1930 [ poems ]
  • The livestock economy with grazing and manure use on the Good Jauern. An example from practice for the rural Alpine country, 1931
  • Speeches and treatises on agriculture policy and agriculture, 1932
  • What 's Z'samklábt. ( Dialect poems and short stories ), 1935
  • 75 years of turbulent times. Memoirs of an Austrian statesman, 1978.
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