Lawyer and politician
Born in Hodonin (Gnoedin) (now in the Czech Republic), son of a prominent Jewish industrialist, he was a leading authority on Austrian and British parliamentary procedure. He was professor in the University of Vienna. From 1906 to 1918 he sat in the Moravian provincial legislature and the Austrian Reichstat. Redlich was minister of finance in the last Hapsburg government in 1918. In 1929 he was appointed professor of law at Harvard, United States, but was recalled to Vienna in 1931 to become minister of finance, holding the post until 1934. He was the author of many major works on legal and political subjects. Redlich was baptized in 1903.