Franz Kaufmann (politician)

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Franz Kaufmann (born April 5, 1876 in Herbitz , Aussig district; † April 27, 1939 Budweis ) was a German-Czechoslovak politician (SPD, DSAP).

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Franz Kaufmann was born in 1876 as the son of a wealthy mill owner in the Bohemian town of Herbitz, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In his youth he attended elementary school in Graupen and the Realgymnasium in Teplitz . Kaufmann's original desire medicine to study, fell through due to the financial ruin of his father. Kaufmann, who was now forced to make a living as a wage laborer, became a locksmith and lathe operator in Teplitz. He later practiced this profession in the German cities of Chemnitz and Brandenburg an der Havel as well as in Vienna, Austria . In 1890 he became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the German Metalworkers' Association (DMV). As a social democrat, he was repeatedly dismissed and deported.

From 1914 to 1918 Kaufmann took part in the First World War, in which he was deployed in Volhynia and South Tyrol. In 1919, Franz Kaufmann was a brief member of the Weimar National Assembly (?).

After the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, Kaufmann's Bohemian homeland became part of the newly created state of Czechoslovakia . As a member of the German-speaking minority in the Sudeten area, Kaufmann became a member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP), the Czechoslovak branch of the German SPD. From 1920 to 1935 Kaufmann was a member of the Parliament of Czechoslovakia for three legislative periods as a member of the DSAP. For the DMV he took over duties as chairman.

His further life is unclear. However, one clue can be found in an edition of the Socialist Communications from 1942, which mentions him under the heading “Murders of the Nazis in Czechoslovakia” as an earlier “victim of fascist terror” in the area of ​​the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Fonts

  • International Metalworkers Association: The upheaval in technology and economy , Komotau 1926.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeast Europe 1919-1945 , 1991, p. 326. Date and place of death according to: Selinger Gemeinde: Weg, Leistungs, Schicksal. History of the Sudeten German workers' movement in words and pictures , 1972, p. 308.
  2. ↑ Collegium Carolinum Munich: The democratic parliamentary structure of the First Czechoslovak Republic , 1975, p. 274.
  3. ↑ Martin K. Bachstein: Wenzel Jaksch and the Sudetendeutsche Sozialdemokratie , 1974, p. 301.
  4. ^ Socialist communications. News for German Socialists in England No. 39, 1942, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czechoslovak politician (SPD, DSAP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Herbitz , Aussig district
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1939
Place of death Ceske Budejovice