SPRÁVNÍ KOUSEK MINISTRA HOCHENBURGERA. RAKOUSKÁ JUSTICE A ČESKO- -NĚMECKÉ VYROVNÁNÍ PŘED PRVNÍ SVĚTOVOU VÁLKOU
A PIECE OF MINISTER HOCHENBURGER’S ADMINISTRATION SKILLS. AUSTRIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM AND CZECH-GERMAN COMPROMISE BEFORE WORLD WAR I

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the so-called Hochenburger Ordinance, especially on circumstances pertinent to its issuance, which, in consequence, led to disruption of Czech-German compromise talks in summer and autumn 1912. A language dispute at the District Court in Teplice, provoked by Czech judge Karel Frypés, was used by the justice minister to enforce the role of the Court President, who, according to minister’s intentions, could change the work schedule at any time and assign the problematic cases to himself. A personal involvement of justice minister Victor Hochen-burger and the timing of the ordinance support the assumption that its real purpose was to impede or disrupt the progress in compromise talks. The attention is paid also to the situation in the Austrian justice administration that was matter of interest from both Czech and German political parties and whose problems (language, personnel, or organisational) frequently influenced the course of compromise talks, as well as to the personality of the Czech judge Karel Frypés.

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