Franz Spina

Franz Spina (born October 5, 1868 in Markt Türnau in Schönhengstgau , Moravia ; † September 17, 1938 in Prague ) was a German bohemist and politician. He was - alongside Robert Mayr-Harting , Ludwig Czech and Erwin Zajicek - one of the German ministers in the First Czechoslovak Republic.

Life

Franz Spina grew up in the bilingual community of Markt Türnau. As a child, he therefore mastered the Czech language in addition to his German mother tongue . He attended the utraquist elementary school in his hometown and in 1879 switched to the Piarist high school in Mährisch Trübau , which he graduated with the Matura in 1887. In 1887 he began to study German, classical philology and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1888 he enrolled at Karl Ferdinand University with the aim of becoming a high school professor . At the same time he became a member of the Constantia fraternity in 1889 , which was merged into the Sudetia fraternity in Munich . In 1892 he passed the teaching examination in German, Latin and Greek. In 1901 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

He had jobs in Braunau (East Bohemia) and Mährisch Neustadt , from 1901 to 1905 he was a high school professor in Mährisch Trübau . In 1906 he was appointed lecturer for the Czech language at the German University in Prague. This was followed by his habilitation in the Czech language in 1909 . Spina wrote numerous publications on the cultural history of Bohemia. From 1929 to 1938 he was editor of the Slawischen Rundschau .

In the First Czechoslovak Republic , he was elected to the Czechoslovak Parliament in 1920 as a member of the Union of Farmers (Czechoslovakia) (BdL). In 1926 he was appointed Minister for Public Works. In 1936 he was reappointed Minister without Portfolio.

literature

F. Spurný: Spina Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 29 f. (Direct links on p. 29 , p. 30 ).
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 468-470
Harald Lönnecker : Franz Spina - German, fraternity, European , in: Klaus Oldenhage (Hrsg.): Germans in Europe . (Annual edition of the Society for Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung e.V. 2011), Koblenz 2011, pp. 51–88.
Steffen Höhne, Ludger Udolph: Franz Spina (1868–1938): A Prague Slavist between university and political public (intellectual Prague in the 19th and 20th centuries). ISBN 978-3-412-20747-2
Robert Luft: Spina, Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 699 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Spina in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 498.

personal data
SURNAME	Spina, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bohemist and politician in Czechoslovakia
DATE OF BIRTH	October 5, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Türnau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH	September 17, 1938
Place of death	Prague

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 498.