Benno Strauch
Benno Strauch (born August 11, 1854 in Rohozna , Bukowina , Austrian Empire ; † November 5, 1940 in Chernivtsi , Romania ) was an Austrian-Romanian lawyer and politician. For decades he dominated the political representation of the Jews in Bukovina.
Life
As the stepson of a Jewish merchant, Strauch attended high school in Czernowitz. From 1872 he studied law at the University of Vienna . The Franz Joseph's University in Chernivtsi doctorate him in 1880 to Dr. jur.
As a lawyer in Chernivtsi, he was elected to the board of the local Jewish community in 1882. With two brief interruptions, he was its president from 1904 to 1928. For over 46 years, from 1884 to 1930, he sat (with interruptions) on the local council . From 1900 to 1918 he was a member of the Bukovinian state parliament in Austria-Hungary . From 1897 to 1914 he was a member of the Imperial Council of Cisleithania. He was initially an independent mandate ; From 1907 he formed the Jewish Club with Adolf Stand , Heinrich Gabel and Arthur Mahler , which he chaired until 1911. He had other functions as city attorney for Czernowitz, as director and lawyer of the Bukowinaer Sparkasse, as board member of the Aktien-Bierbrauereigesellschaft, as a member of the state school board (from 1905) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Czernowitz (from 1904). In 1901 he and Mayer Ebner founded the Jewish People's Association. From 1906 he was chairman of the Jewish National Party . In 1909 he founded the magazine "Die Volkswehr".
Strauch had campaigned for the revision of the verdict in the ritual murder trial against Leopold Hilsner in 1899 . He campaigned for a Jewish diaspora nationalism, ie for the recognition of the Jews as a nation, but set himself apart from political Zionism . As an opponent of Yiddish , in 1908 he refused the organizers of the Jewish language conference the Jewish National House in Chernivtsi as a conference venue. From 1911 he was in confrontation with the Zionists around Leon Kellner and Mayer Ebner.
During the First World War, he fled the Russian occupation to Vienna and lived there until 1919. After returning to the now Romanian Cernăuţi (Černivci), he resumed his work with the religious community. From 1920 to 1932 he was a member of the Parliament of Greater Romania .
Fonts
- The situation of the Jews. Speeches by MP Strauch in the Austrian delegations and in the Austrian Chamber of Deputies . Jewish National Association, Chernivtsi 1907.
- State parliament speech by MP Dr. Strauch in the electoral reform debate . Vienna 1915.
- Memorandum on the activities hostile to the state, the weaknesses of the state's autonomy, the necessity of domestic political reforms, the threatened financial collapse in the state budget of the Bukovina, as well as the sad situation of the Jews . Vienna 1915.
literature
- Andrei Corbea-Hoișie : “How the Jews shout violence”. Aurel Onciul and the anti-Semitic turn in the Bukovinian public after 1907 . East Central Europe 39 (2012), pp. 13-60.
Web links
- Strauch, Benno (Benjamin) Dr. iur. . Short biography on the website of the Austrian Parliament
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strauch, Benno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Romanian lawyer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rohozna , Bucovina |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 5, 1940 |
| Place of death | Chernivtsi |