Eduard Hruschka

Eduard Hruschka , also Hruska , Hruška or Hruşcă , (born August 22, 1870 in Gußwerk , Styria ; † July 1935 in Kronstadt (Brașov) , Romania ) was an Austro-Romanian forest inspector, timber industrialist and politician of the German National Party (DnP). He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and member of the Bukovinian state parliament .

Life

Hruschka was born in Styria, the son of the foreman and director of the Mariazeller Hüttenwerke Wenzel Hruschka. After elementary school he attended grammar school in Graz and then studied from 1891 to 1894 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . He did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the kuk Bohemian Infantry Regiment “Viktor Emanuel III. King of Italy ”No. 28, disarming as a lieutenant in the reserve. Professionally, Hruschka was initially active as a forest inspector for the Orthodox Religious Fund in Bukovina , after which he worked as a forest master and general director for the wood industry companies G. Ballan and Ballan & Co. in Chernivtsi ( western Ukraine ). During the First World War, Hruschka served as a first lieutenant in the Landwehr group of the Vienna military command .

Hruschka was initially politically active for the Christian Socials. He took part in the 1911 Reichsrat election in the constituency of Bukowina 3 ( Radautz , Suczawa , Sereth region ) and was elected a member of parliament on July 17, 1911. He was a member of the House of Representatives until November 12, 1918. Initially non-attached , in 1913 he joined the club of the independent Christian People's Party of the Germans of Austria (later: German Center ) and in 1918 the German-Austrian Independence Party . In addition, Hruschka was a member of the Bukovinian state parliament from 1911 to 1917 and a member of the Provisional National Assembly from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919 .

Before 1907, Hruschka married Aspasia von Onciul, the sister of the politician Aurel von Onciul, and had at least one son. Another brother-in-law was the politician Florea Lupu . Originally of Roman Catholic denomination, he switched to the Protestant Church AB. He was arrested in 1931 and sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage for the Soviet Union . He died in the Brașov prison.

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 492.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 538
• Austrian Parliamentary Administration (ed.): The members of the Austrian National Council 1918 - 1975 and the members of the Austrian Federal Council 1920 - 1975. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1975

Web links

• Eduard Hruschka on the website of the Austrian Parliament