František Žemlička

František Žemlička (before 1908)

František Žemlička (born November 12, 1867 in Sobotka , † May 10, 1945 in Jindřichův Hradec (Neuhaus)) was a Czech druggist and politician ( Czech National Social Party ). He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

František Žemlička was born the son of the hat maker František Žemlička and his wife Anna. Between 1873 and 1877 he attended elementary school in Sobotka and then in Turnau and then graduated from grammar school in Jungbunzlau . In 1897 he began studying pharmacy at the Czech University in Prague, from which he graduated in 1899 with a master's degree in pharmacy. Then Žemlička served as a one-year volunteer at the 12th garrison pharmacy in Josefstadt . After the end of his military service, Žemlička worked as a pharmacist, from 1894 he was a chemist in Neuhaus. He also published the formerly agricultural magazine Štítný in 1904/05. In addition to his entrepreneurship as a druggist, Žemlička was also a house owner in Neuhaus and treasurer of the credit union of the United Business Cooperatives in Neuhaus.

Žemlička was politically active as a member of the Neuhaus municipal council. He was also a representative of the national Czech tradesmen in South Bohemia and was a member of the radical political club in Neuhaus. He ran in the Reichsrat election in 1901 as a joint candidate of the trade organizations and the National Social Party in the constituency of the general electoral class of the Bohemia Tabor etc. or in the city constituency 27 Wittingau etc. but was defeated in each case. His candidacy in the Bohemian state elections in the electoral district of Neuhaus-Bistritz was also unsuccessful. Žemlička eventually joined the National Social Party and won a mandate in the electoral district of Bohemia in the 1907 Reichsrat election . He was a member of the House of Representatives from June 17, 1907 to March 30, 1911, where he belonged to the Association of Bohemian National, Social and Radical Progressive Members and from November 1910 to the Unified Bohemian Club. He was a member of the Petitions and Sanitary Committee as well as a temporary member of the Animal Disease Committee, and his parliamentary work was particularly dedicated to pharmacy, language issues and local matters. In the Reichsrat election in 1911 , he failed in his constituency in the runoff election against František Kratochvíl due to his re-election.

Žemlička married Olga Harmachova in 1894, the daughter of a commercial judge and had three sons.

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: M-Z. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 1463 f.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907
• Robert Luft: Parliamentary Leadership Groups and Political Structures in Czech Society. Volume 2: Czech MPs and parties of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907–1914. Biographical handbook of the Czech members of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907 to 1914. Munich, Oldenbourg Verlag , 2012, pp. A 433 f.