Antonín Machát

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Antonín Machát

Antonín Machát (also Anton Machat) (born November 5, 1880 in Lomnička , Moravia , † February 26, 1967 in Prague ) was a printing company owner, author, functionary in numerous Czech associations, in Vienna and in Vienna's municipal council.

Life

Anton Machát attended elementary school and trade school in Brno and learned the printing trade . Later he became a functionary in the Moravian printing house organization. It is not known when he came to Vienna .

Antonín Machát was the owner of Lidové Knihtiskárny Antonín Machát & Co. (People's Book Printing Company Antonín Machát & Co, limited partnership) at Margaretenplatz 7 in Margareten since 1911 . In his printing works, among other things, the newspaper Videnske Delnicke listy (Wiener Arbeiterblatt) was printed for the Czechs in Vienna . During the Second World War, leaflets were produced here for the communist resistance group around Alois Houdek.

In addition to his job, he held numerous functions in Czech organizations in Vienna:

  • Secretary of the Czech National Committee
  • Co-founder and secretary of the charity "České srdce - Bohemian Heart" founded in 1918
  • Board member of the Czech Social Welfare Organization
  • Editor of the body of Czech traders

After the municipal council elections in 1927, Anton Machát and seven other favorite Social Democrats moved to the Vienna City Council. As a social democratic mandate, he was arrested in 1934. In 1942 he belonged to the group of representatives of the Komensky Association who were informed by the Gestapo of the liquidation of the Komensky Association and the confiscation of the property in the former Hotel Metropol on Morzinplatz. He was identified by the Vienna Gestapo as a political opponent known to the police on August 22, 1944.

He was also active as an author and editor of Czech-language books.

After the Second World War he moved to Prague. There he became a member of the constituent committee as a representative of the Czechs who had emigrated from Vienna.

Works

Antonín Machát as the author:

  • Beethoven. Jak žil a tvořil. 2nd edition, Vienna 1939 (Beethoven. His life and work)
  • Čechoslováci ve Vídni. Vienna 1931
  • Dunaj. Lidová knihovna vídeňská 33. Vienna 1935 [The Danube]
  • Vídeň-Paříž-Vídeň. Vienna 1938
  • Vídeňský hrad. Schönbrunn. Laxenburg. Vienna 1939, (The Vienna Hofburg, Schönbrunn and Laxenburg)
  • Naši ve Vídni. Praha, Práce 1946

Antonín Machát as editor:

  • Ročenka Čechů vídeňských. 1938
  • Lidová knihovna vídeňská. 1935

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b BIOGRAPHICAL MANUAL of the Lower Austrian Landtag 1861 - 1921. (PDF) Retrieved on April 1, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Identification card index of the Gestapo Vienna. DÖW , accessed on July 13, 2010 .
  3. ^ History . favoriten.spoe.at. Archived from the original on March 10, 2005. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  4. ↑ KM Brousek: Vienna and its Czechs - Integration and Assimilation of a Minority in the 20th Century, page 100
  5. ↑ Identity files of the Gestapo Vienna ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Between Popular Front and Block Formation (PDF) collegium-carolinum.de. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  7. ^ Eduard Kubů, Gudrun Exner: Czechs, asset deprivation and restitution . Oldenbourg, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7029-0527-8 , pp. 119 .

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personal data
SURNAME Machát, Antonín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machat, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer, printer's owner and functionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Lomnička , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1967
Place of death Prague