FOLIO I · DENKER
Born on 13 March 1866 in Troppau, Austrian Silesia (today Opava, Czech Republic), the son of a rabbi.[1]
Passed the Matura, the secondary-school leaving examination, in 1883 at the Gymnasium in Troppau.[1]
Studies in law and political science at the University of Vienna (1883 to 1887), which he had to finance himself as a half-orphan; at the same time he served as a one-year volunteer (Einjährig-Freiwilliger) and later as a reserve officer.[1]
Became director of the party and press office of the “Vereinigte Deutsche Linke” (United German Left) in 1891.[1]
Earned his doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) at the University of Vienna in 1892.[1]
Converted to Catholicism in 1895; in the same period he married into the family of the Vienna professor of commercial law Carl Samuel Grünhut (1844–1929).[1]
Became the son-in-law of Carl Samuel Grünhut, professor of commercial law at the University of Vienna. His wife Mathilde died in 1911 (aged 39).
Appointed in December 1897 to the Imperial-Royal Office of the Council of Ministers (k.k. Ministerratspräsidium).[2]
Completed his Habilitation with the treatise “Die öffentlichen Glückspiele” (Public Games of Chance).[1]
After his Habilitation he entered politics; as the closest associate of Minister-President Körber (1850–1919) he played a powerful and at times controversial role, above all in personnel decisions for top positions in the bureaucracy.
From 1902 to 1910 head of the Presidial Chancellery of the Office of the Council of Ministers; closest associate of Minister-President Ernest von Körber, involved in the electoral reform and the Ausgleich (settlement) of 1907.[1]
Promoted to Sektionschef (section head, the highest civil-service rank) in 1904.[1]
From 1910 to 1929 (with an interruption from 1917 to 1919) governor and, from 1919, president of the Allgemeine Österreichische Boden-Credit-Anstalt; with its affiliated industrial groups and newspapers he remained an influential business leader well into the First Republic; in 1929 it merged with the Creditanstalt following insolvency.[1]
Became a member of the Herrenhaus (the upper house) in 1912.
Joined the k.k. Finanzministerium in 1894 under Finance Minister Ernst von Plener; Plener as the first ministerial superior and political patron of his career within the civil service.[1]
In 1895, after his conversion to Catholicism, he became the son-in-law of Carl Samuel Grünhut (1844-1929), professor of commercial law at the University of Vienna.
Böhm-Bawerk war Siegharts Vorgesetzter im k.k. Finanzministerium (Steuerreform-Sektion) und empfahl ihn 1897 ans Ministerratspräsidium, was Siegharts Aufstieg unter Körber überhaupt erst ermöglichte (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Sieghart).
As the closest associate of Prime Minister Ernest von Körber (1850-1919), Sieghart played a powerful and at times controversial role, above all in personnel decisions for top positions in the bureaucracy.[1]
Reisch wurde 1921 Vizepräsident der Allgemeinen Boden-Credit-Anstalt unter Präsident Sieghart. Ab 1922 als OeNB-Präsident gleichzeitig zentraler Bankenregulator und Refinanzierer für Siegharts BCA bis zum Zusammenbruch 1929 (OeBL).
Rudolf Sieghart in the context of the School as a whole — five generations, their teacher-student lineages, circles and collegial ties.
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