Erwin Zajicek

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Erwin Zajicek's grave in Poysdorf

Erwin Zajicek (born November 22, 1890 in Fröllersdorf , South Moravia, † October 29, 1976 in Poysdorf ) was a Czechoslovak politician and the last deceased German minister of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period .

Life

Born as the son of a teacher, Zajicek attended the elementary school in Bratelsbrunn , the grammar school in Nikolsburg and finally the teacher training institute of the school brothers in Vienna - Strebersdorf . Here he passed the vocational maturity examination in 1910.

In 1910 he began his service as a primary school teacher in Nikolsburg. Other places of work were Pohrlitz , Pollau and Neusiedl. In 1914 he passed the examination as a middle school teacher and from 1915 did his military service first as a soldier and later as an officer on the Russian and Italian fronts. He was wounded and was awarded the great silver medal for bravery.

From 1920 he worked as a specialist teacher at the Feldsberg Citizens' School and from 1930 at the Znojmo School . His teaching activities were interrupted by the office of a minister without portfolio in the Czechoslovak government, which he took up on July 2, 1936. After his resignation in 1938 he worked again as a teacher at the secondary school in Znojmo until 1942, when he was drafted into the German armed forces.

At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, was released at the end of 1946 and found his family in Vienna, who had meanwhile been expelled from his homeland . Later he settled with his family in Poysdorf in Lower Austria , where he taught until his retirement in 1955.

Erwin Zajicek died on October 29, 1976 in Poysdorf, where he was also buried.

politics

Memorial stone for Erwin Zajicek at the South Moravian Cross on the Schweinbarther Berg

Erwin Zajicek was a member of the German Christian Social People's Party from 1911 .

In the interwar period he initiated the founding of the Willmann Association, which was an association of German Catholic teachers in Czechoslovakia. As an activist politician, he campaigned for cooperation between German and Czech parties.

In 1925, 1929 and 1935 he was elected to the Czechoslovak Parliament as a member of the German Christian Social People's Party. He was also the party's first deputy chairman. On July 2, 1936, he became a Minister without Portfolio in the Czechoslovak government. His resignation and the self-dissolution of the party in 1938 ended his political career in Czechoslovakia.

After 1945, Erwin Zajicek belonged to the Austrian People's Party , where, as in his function as head of the umbrella association of South Moravians in Austria, which he held between 1962 and 1974, he primarily represented the interests of those who were expelled from their homeland. He was also a driving force when the South Moravian Cross was consecrated on the Schweinbarther Berg near Kleinschweinbarth in 1963 and the first so-called Kreuzberg meeting of the South Moravians was organized in 1963.

literature

  • The Südmährer - magazine for the districts: Znaim, Nikolsburg, Zlabings and Neubistritz. November 1975, published by the South Moravian Landscape Council in the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft, Geislingen an der Steige.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Robert Kriechbaumer: Europa Res Publica. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna et al. 2006, ISBN 3-205-77461-2 , p. 221 (notes), online on google books
personal data
SURNAME Zajicek, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Fröllersdorf , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1976
Place of death Poysdorf , Lower Austria