Eduard Sturm, Rechtsanwalt aus Brünn, „Schöpfer“ der österreichischen Grundrechte?
Eduard Sturm, an Attorney from Brno, “Creator” of the Austrian Fundamental Rights?

Summary/Abstract: The reconstruction of the Hungarian Constitution of 1848 – following the “Compromise” of 1867 between the monarch and the Hungarian Diet – induced the Cisleithanian parliament likewise to return to former constitutional concepts. A Constituant Committee, set up by the House of Representatives of the Austrian Imperial Council, was guided along the content of the Imperial Constitution and was brought into force with oktroy in 1849. The liberal German representative Eduard Sturm, an attorney from Brno in Moravia, was appointed to prepare a draft about fundamental rights. A subcommittee of the Constituant Committee brought Sturm’s draft to perfection. In essence only those fundamental rights enacted by an oktroy just in 1849 were left behind. Sturm pithily jotted down his notes about the results of the discussion within the Constituant Committee: “Everything 1849”!

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