Heinrich Mataja

Heinrich Mataja

Heinrich Mataja (born March 14, 1877 in Vienna ; † January 23, 1937 there ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Party . Viktor Mataja was his half-brother.

Life and political career

Heinrich Mataja was a member of the Vienna City Council from 1910 to 1918 . He was also a member of the Austrian Reichsrat from 1913 to 1918 . From October 21, 1918, he was a member of the resulting Provisional National Assembly for German Austria , from March 4, 1919, a member of the Constituent National Assembly, and from November 10, 1920 to 1930, a member of the National Council .

During this period he was from October 30, 1918 to March 15, 1919 in the state government Renner I State Secretary (= Minister) for the Interior and from November 20, 1924 to January 14, 1926 Austrian Foreign Minister. In 1931 he was pushed out of all political positions by his party friends.

He welcomed the Christian corporate state established by Engelbert Dollfuß dictatorially in 1934 , approached the conception of an Austrian nation and was recognized again in the corporate state. From 1896 to 1900 he was a member of the Olympia fraternity . Mataja (as recently as 1935) represented a legitimism organized exclusively within the borders of Austria , which should avoid foreign policy considerations and influence and in this way tell the world that the restoration of the House of Habsburg was not a dangerous thing .

Mataja was admitted to the Vienna General Hospital on January 22, 1937 with signs of a stroke , where he died in the early morning hours of the following day. On January 27, 1937, the deceased was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in a grave of honor belonging to the Municipality of Vienna (Group 31 B, Row 13, No. 22). 

Works

• Ten political essays from 1911–1913 . Opitz, Vienna 1913, ÖNB .
• - (Ed.): Christlichsoziale Landstraßer Zeitung . Hollinek, Vienna 1913–1915, ÖNB .
• The vote on the budget . Loibl & Patzelt, Vienna 1914, ÖNB .
• The origin of the world war . Political Enlightenment Writings. Central European Publishing House, Berlin-Steglitz 1921, ÖNB .
• Europe between two wars . Herold, Vienna 1923, ÖNB .
• German-Austria . In: Ferdinand Schönemann (among others): Felix Hase: England. Ferdinand Schönemann: North America. Robert van Sint-Jan: Belgium. Heinrich Mataja: German-Austria . Regensberg, Münster i. W. 1924, SS 113-272, ÖNB .
• Austrian politics in the XIX. and XX. Century. A historical overview . Reports on cultural and contemporary history, Volume 10.1934 / 35 (= No. 225/226). Reinhold, Vienna 1934, OBV .
• Memorandum on the Danube Question . Sn , Vienna 1935, OBV .

literature

• Lothar Höbelt :  Mataja, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Elisabeth Jelinek: The Political Life of Dr. Heinrich Matajas. A contribution to the history of the Christian Social Party in the First Republic . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1971, OBV .
• E. Jelinek, JT Lilla:  Mataja Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 134 f. (Direct links on p. 134 , p. 135 ).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Band 1: politicians , subband 4: M - Q . Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 46-48.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 46.
2. ↑ Austria and Legitimism. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 25305 M / 1935, February 22, 1935, p. 4 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Serious illness of the former Foreign Minister Dr. Mataja. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 25995 M / 1937, January 23, 1937, p. 4, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ^ Minister a. D. Dr. Heinrich Mataja died. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 25995 A / 1937, January 23, 1937, p. 3, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ The funeral minister a. D. Dr. Heinrich Mataja. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 26000 M / 1937, January 28, 1937, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ Domestic. Honorary grave for Dr. Heinrich Mataja. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 25996 M / 1937, January 24, 1937, p. 6, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Mataja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Heinrich Mataja on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Literature by and about Heinrich Mataja in the catalog of the German National Library
• 30,000 Viennese in front of the town hall. In:  Oesterreichische Volks-Zeitung - formerly Konstitutionelle Vorstadt-Zeitung , No. 205/1914 (LX. Year), July 27, 1914, p. 3, top right. (Online at ANNO ).
• Heinrich Mataja in the original sound: radio address from 1933