Franz Blaskovics

Franz Blaskovics

Franz Blaskovics (born March 21, 1864 in Steierdorf , Austrian Empire ; † November 16, 1937 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) was Provost , Vicar General of the Timișoara Diocese , co-founder of the Swabian Autonomous Party , member of the Hungarian Parliament and Senator in Bucharest .

Life

Franz Blaskovics was born in Anina in 1864 as the son of a working-class family. He attended middle school in Oravița (1874-1875) and then graduated from the Piarist high school in Timisoara (1875-1882). This was followed by theology studies at the Pazmaneum in Vienna (1882–1886). On December 18, 1886, he was ordained a priest in Timisoara Cathedral by Auxiliary Bishop Josef Georg Németh .

Theological career

Blaskovics was from 1886-1889 as an adjunct professor for Bible studies and for the German language at the Timisoara seminary and 1889-1894 as poor advocate for the diocese of Csanád . From 1904 to 1930 he was canon of the Csanáder and from 1930 of the Timişoara diocese. In 1906 he was appointed diocesan school inspector. 1926-1937 he was provost of the Roman Catholic diocese of Csanád and Timișoara.

Political career

After a period of educational and scientific work, Blaskovics turned to political activity from 1891.

Before the First World War

In 1895 Franz Blaskovics became director of the South Hungarian Agricultural Bank . From 1919 to 1933 he was chairman of the South Hungarian Agricultural Association and the Banat Agricultural Association . As editor of the weekly newspaper Der Landbote (1886–1893) and the newspaper Der Freimütige (1893–1918), he had a great influence on the formation of opinion in the Banat. Blaskovics was an ardent advocate of the policy of Magyarization until the Banat was divided into three as a result of the Treaty of Trianon . Between 1896 and 1904 he was a member of the Hungarian Reichstag. On January 10, 1919, the so-called moderates , including Kaspar Muth and Franz Blaskovics, founded the Swabian Autonomous Party , which advocated an undivided, autonomous Banat, the Banat Republic , in the Hungarian state association or under a French protectorate .

After the First World War

After the First World War, Blaskovics turned away from the Magyarophile attitude and turned to Swabianism. He was a co-founder of the Swabian Autonomous Party and from 1921 deputy chairman of the Danube Swabian national community and spokesman for the Association of Germans in Romania . He was also significantly involved in the establishment of the Banatia , the German Catholic Teacher Training Institute Timisoara and the Woiteger Agricultural School . Blaskovics was a member of the board of the Schwäbische Verlags-AG , co-publisher of the Banater Deutsche Zeitung , and director general of the Schwäbische Zentralbank-AG . From 1926 to 1927 he worked as a senator in Bucharest.

Works

• The most burning question! How can the money crisis be remedied ?, Timisoara, 1925
• Economic and financial situation of Romania. Romania's economic importance abroad . Stuttgart, 1927

literature

• Karl Bell: Banat. The Germanness in the Romanian Banat. With the participation of Franz Blaskovics , Deutscher Buch- u. Kunstverlag 1926, Dresden
• Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
• Georg Wildmann : Danube Swabian History. Volume III. The tragedy of self-assertion in the field of action of National Socialism. 1918-1944. Edited by Donauschwäbische Kulturstiftung München, 2010, ISBN 978-3-926276-73-5

Web links

• openlibrary.org , Karl Bell: Banat, the Germanness in the Romanian Banat, with the participation of Franz Blaskovics