Franz Hemala

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Franz Hemala (born November 17, 1877 in Brno , Moravia , † October 17, 1943 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ).

Life

Franz Hemala grew up in Brno, where he graduated from elementary school and high school. He came in 1898 to Vienna at the city's University Law study. In 1902 he received his doctorate . Hemala was active in Christian social circles from an early age. As a student he was a member of the Catholic academic association Norica Vienna . He later wrote columns for the newspaper Freiheit , a forerunner of the Christian Social Workers' newspaper , which the later ÖVP politician Leopold Kunschak published.

In 1904 Hemala became a civil servant in the provincial government of Lower Austria . He remained so until 1931. From 1909, Hemala held his first political office when he was a district councilor in the Viennese district of Mariahilf until 1914 . During the First World War he served at the front from 1914 to 1917 and was last promoted to the rank of first lieutenant .

Has been involved in the Christian trade union since it was founded , and from 1909 to 1934 he was a member of the board of the central commission of the Christian trade unions in Austria. After the war, Hemala got involved in youth work and in 1922 founded a Christian social youth union group.

Hemala was also successful politically when he entered the Viennese state parliament and local council in 1919, to which, however, he only belonged for a few months, until 1920. In December 1920 he was sworn in as a Federal Council, to which he was to belong until it was dissolved by the corporate state in May 1934. Franz Hemala also made history when he held the office of President of the Federal Council for just one day on April 30, 1934 ; he remained the Bundesrat President with the shortest term of office in both the First and the later Second Republic.

Franz Hemala's daughter Hilde Hemala was later the wife of Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Hemala. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 269 f. (Direct links on p. 269 , p. 270 ).
  2. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV Vienna 1925, p. 642.
personal data
SURNAME Hemala, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (CSP), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1943
Place of death Vienna