Gustav Habrman

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Gustav Habrman, Reich-mp for 25th vol. District. (His lectures in America)
Gustav Habrman, Reich-mp for 25th vol. District. (His lectures in America)

Gustav Habrman (born January 24, 1864 in Böhmisch Trübau , Bohemia , † March 22, 1932 in Pilsen ) was a Czech politician and journalist.

Life

Gustav Habrman got to know the social grievances as a worker in Vienna and began to get involved in the interests of the workers. In October 1884 he was one of the co-accused in the great anti-socialist trial in Vienna. Habrman received a fairly heavy fine for distributing and printing leaflets. He was sentenced to 105 years in hard prison, but released after just three years.

He left Vienna, went to Paris and then to the USA for eight years . He lived and worked in factories in New York and Chicago . He later worked as an editor in socialist magazines.

In 1897 he returned to Bohemia. He continues his journalistic work in the editorial office of the Brno newspaper Rovnosti and the Wiener Arbeiterblätter . In 1901 he moved to Pilsen forever. He edited the socialist magazines Nová doba and Obzor , which appeared in the circle . At the same time he was elected to the leadership of the largest district party, the Social Democrats, and in 1907 he became a member of the Reichsrat .

In 1915 Habrman met Tomáš Masaryk in Geneva and decided to support his work.

In the spring of 1917, an opposition to the pro-Austrian policies of the leadership formed in the Social Democratic Party. Habrman became their greatest proponent and eventually led the counter-camp. As their representative he took part in the Congress of the Second International and advocated the release of the Czech state from the Austrian monarchy . In September 1917 the opposition published their demands and Habrmann became a representative of the party's executive committee. A month later he was confirmed for the designated Bohumír Šmeral in the function of the chairman of the club of representatives. As leader of the Social Democrats, he took part in the negotiations of the representatives of the resistance in exile in Geneva at the end of 1918.

After the proclamation of the independent state, he took on the role of Minister of Education in the Karel Kramář government , and later Minister of Social Affairs.

person

In Otto's encyclopedia is written about Habrmann: "He was a man with foresight, quick-witted orator, one of the leaders of Czech and Czechoslovak Social Democratic Party, self-taught and one of the most important co-designer of state independence."

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SURNAME Habrman, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Česká Třebová
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1932
Place of death Pilsen