Heinrich Prade

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Heinrich Prade (before 1908)

Heinrich Prade (born June 5, 1853 in Reichenberg , † April 22, 1927 in Vienna ) was an Austrian - Bohemian politician ( German People's Party ). He was Vice Mayor of Reichenberg, Member of the Bohemian State Parliament , Member of the Austrian House of Representatives and Minister in the Beck cabinet . Two of his grandchildren are Heinrich Appelt and Hans Heinrich Jantsch .

education and profession

Prade was born the son of a wool manufacturer in Reichenberg. He graduated from the upper secondary school in Reichenberg and worked for a few years in his father's factory. He later joined the service of the south-north German connection railway and from 1871 worked as a civil servant for the German insurance company Concordia . From 1885 Prade worked as an independent merchant in Reichenberg and founded the Reichenberger "Deutsche Volkszeitung" in that year.

From 1892 Prade was director of the Reichenberg municipal savings bank, which he had founded, and between 1908 and 1909 he was General Councilor of the Austro-Hungarian Bank and between 1909 and 1914 President of the Austrian Industrial and Commercial Bank, which he played a leading role in establishing had been. Prade held his position as chief curator of the insurance company "Janus" until after 1918.

Political career

Prade was elected to Reichenberg's municipal council in 1885 and was also vice mayor of his hometown from 1889 to 1901. He was a member of the Bohemian Landtag from 1885 to 1910 and from 1885 was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives as a representative of the Reichenberg constituency. Here he stood as a candidate of the middle class against the industrial establishment of his hometown. After he had previously belonged to the social reform wing of the “German National Association” in the Reichsrat, he joined the newly founded German People's Party in 1895 and subsequently became the leader of the German People's Party in Bohemia. After refusing to join the Koerber cabinet in 1900 , he was first vice-president of the House of Representatives as a representative of the largest German party between 1900 and 1901 in times of serious internal political disputes. In 1906 he was finally appointed minister without a portfolio in the Beck cabinet, where he served as the first German compatriot minister for Bohemia or national representative of the Germans in a politically neutral cabinet. In 1907 he resigned from this office for party-political reasons and vacated his post for the agrarian Franz Peschka . After the introduction of the Reichsrat election rules in 1907 , he ran in the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the newly created electoral district of Bohemia 76 , where he was able to prevail again in the first ballot. After Peschka died in May 1908, Prade was appointed to the Beck cabinet for the second time, to which he belonged until his fall in November 1908.

Prade represented the interests of the Germans in Bohemia in the nationality conflict within the Habsburg monarchy and was also involved in improving social security and social policy. Other focal points of his political work were state finances and the budget. Prade was an opponent of universal suffrage and after its introduction worked on a union of the German-free parties.

Honors

  • Honorary Citizen of Reichenberg (1907)
  • Dr. hc from the University of Leipzig
  • Appointment to the Privy Council

literature

personal data
SURNAME Prade, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Bohemian politician (German People's Party)
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1927
Place of death Vienna