Guido Gündisch

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Guido Gündisch (born August 20, 1884 in Sibiu , Kingdom of Hungary , † April 9, 1952 in Ulm , Germany ) was a Transylvanian politician and lawyer. At times he was a member of the Hungarian Reichstag .

Life and work

Gündisch, who belonged to the ethnic group of the Transylvanian Saxons , was born in Sibiu as the son of Georg Gündisch , who later became a Hungarian member of parliament. He first attended the Protestant grammar school in Budapest and from 1899 the one in Prešporok , where he graduated from high school in 1902. He then studied law and political science at the universities of Vienna , Budapest , Berlin and Klausenburg from 1902 to 1907 . After receiving his PhD in Cluj in 1907. jur. After receiving his doctorate, he was then an attorney candidate until 1910 (corresponds to the German legal clerkship ) in Sibiu, Agnetheln and Budapest, where he passed the bar exam. He then settled as a lawyer, initially in Sibiu and from 1917 in Elisabethstadt . From 1917 to 1945 he was active as a lawyer in Budapest. Towards the end of the war, he and his family fled first to Dresden and then on to Austria. In 1946 he moved to Ulm . In order to be able to work as a lawyer again in Germany, he passed the major state examination in Stuttgart in 1947 . He then worked as a lawyer in Ulm until he died of a stroke in 1952.

politics

Gündisch was initially from the end of 1909 to summer 1910 as a representative of the "Greens", a split from the Saxon People's Party, for a Hermannstadt constituency member of the Hungarian Reichstag . From 1914 to 1918 he represented the constituency of Agnetheln there. In contrast to the Saxon People's Party, which rejected the cooperation between the Transylvanian Saxons and the Banat Swabians , Gündisch's Greens spoke out in favor of cooperation.

family

In 1909 Gündisch married Anni Baum from the family of the later Federal Minister of the Interior, Gerhart Baum . He was the father of a son, Herbert-Jürgen Gündisch , who would later become Hamburg CDU member , and a daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hermann A. Hienz, Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Saxons, Volume VI, DG , Böhlau Verlag , Cologne Weimar Vienna 1998, ISBN 3412096970
  2. a b "Dr. Jürgen Gündisch: Top lawyer and committed Hamburg citizen ” at www.siebenbuerger.de, accessed on April 5, 2018
  3. ^ The Hungarian Germans in the 20th Century at www.sulinet.hu, accessed on April 6, 2018.