Demeter von Tuschinski

Demeter Ritter von Tuschinski (after 1918, Dimitrie de Tusinschi) was the First Attorney of State in Austrian-Hungarian Czernowitz. After WW1, when the city became Romanian, he was appointed First President of the Cernauti Court of Appeal from 1926 until his retirement in 1938. Several thousand pre-WW2 press articles mention him and the important role he played in society of Bucovina. Particularly, his involvement in numerous charities was often stressed. Demeter Ritter von Tuschinski received numerous important awards, including the Grand Officer's Cross of the Romanian Order of the Crown in 1936, and the Austrian-Hungarian Order of the Iron Crown in 1912.