Alois Lebouton

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Alois Lebouton (born April 27, 1881 in Radautz , Duchy of Bukowina , Austria-Hungary ; † April 26, 1936 in Chernivtsi , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Romanian-German teacher and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a customs and finance guard, Lebouton studied classical philology , philosophy , logic , psychology , ancient history and the German language in Czernowitz and later archeology in Strasbourg after attending the First Humanistic State High School in Czernowitz . During his studies in 1899 he became a member of the Arminia Czernowitz fraternity . After passing the teaching examination , he became a teacher of Latin and Greek in Czernowitz in 1904 . In 1905 he became a real grammar school teacher and then worked as a study professor at the German grammar school in Czernowitz. In 1907 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

He was politically active since 1905, so in 1906 he became chairman of the Chernivtsi Association of German Schools' Home and was active in the German Cultural Association. As a scholarship holder of the Austrian Ministry of Education, he took part in excavations in Italy and Greece in 1911/12 . From 1912 to 1915 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Association of German Agricultural Cooperatives in Bukovina . After the First World War , he campaigned strongly for the German expellees from the former Bukovina , among others together with his federal brother Anton Keschmann . Lebouton was co-founder and spokesman of the German People's Council for Bukovina , for which he made a declaration of affiliation to the Romanian National Congress of Bukovina in 1918, which affirmed the affiliation of the Germans living in Bukovina to Romania. From 1919 to 1920 he was chairman of the People's Council of Germans and, together with his brother Alfred Kohlruß, political leader of the Bukowina Germans . In 1922 he was vice president and until 1928 a member of the board of directors of Bukowiner Landesbank. In 1922 he was involved in the establishment of the Carpathian Association and then worked as deputy chairman. He was also active on the board of the Christian German Association. In 1924 he was involved in founding the German newspaper cooperative and was an active member of its board. In 1925 he founded the Czernowitzer Deutsche Tagespost. He was chairman of the Chernivtsi German men's choir and from 1928 to 1929 councilor and city ​​councilor of Chernivtsi. From 1928 to 1931 he was Senator of the Germans in the Romanian Parliament for the constituency of Radautz and was a member of the Romanian Chamber from 1931 to 1933 ; In 1933 he was again Senator of the Romanian Parliament until his death. In 1933 he was the founder and chairman of the German People's Federation for Bukovina .

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SURNAME Lebouton, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian German teacher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Radautz , Duchy of Bukowina , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1936
Place of death Chernivtsi , Kingdom of Romania