Josef Čipera

Josef Čipera (before 1908)

Josef Čipera (born March 17, 1850 in Rakonitz , † June 9, 1911 in Pilsen ) was a Czech politician ( Young Czechs ), secondary school teacher and theater director. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and a member of the Bohemian Landtag .

education and profession

After elementary school, Josef Čipera attended the upper secondary school in Rakonitz between 1860 and 1867, where he graduated from high school in 1867 . He then studied road and hydraulic engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague for three years. Together with his friends, the later politician Gustav Eim and the rector of the Prague University Jaromír Hanel , Čipera published the first Czech student calendar.

He began his professional career as a short-term technician at a private company. From October 1872 he worked as a supplement at the municipal secondary school in Pilsen and in June 1875 he switched to teaching mathematics at the upper and lower secondary school in Pilsen. After living as a private teacher in Prague for a short time, where he taught the children of the Julius Grégr family, among other things , he was approved as a secondary school teacher in June 1885 and then switched to the secondary school in Pilsen as a supplement. After the division of this school, he worked as a professor at the Czech secondary school from 1889. He was also the artistic director of the Pilsen City Theater between 1902 and 1903. After his re-election to the city council, Čipera left the school service in 1906, where he was appointed school council in 1907. As a result, he devoted himself entirely to politics.

Politics and functions

Čipera became a member of the Pilsen municipal council in 1882, where he was chairman of the statistics commission and, among other things, a member of the commissions for education, technology, water supply, gas works, electrification, transport and pension insurance. Between 1888 and 1903 he was active as a co-opted city council, where he was entrusted with the construction of the aqueduct, the city theater and the city museum, among other things. Čipera was active as an elected city councilor in Pilsen from 1906 and also worked as a member of the district council from 1896 and 1911. In addition, from March 1905 he was district chairman for Pilsen, from 1883 a member of the local school council and from 1889 to 1903 a member of the district school council. He was also a committee member of the Sparkasse Pilsen, chairman of the board of directors of the municipal gas company and a member of the administrative board of the municipal electricity company.

After the resignation of the young Czech František Schwarz , Čipera stood on December 14, 1903 in the supplementary election for the House of Representatives in the city-electoral district of Pilsen and subsequently moved to the House of Representatives. He was also able to prevail in the electoral district of Bohemia 14 with 61.5 percent in the Reichsrat election in 1907 . Čipera also succeeded Schwarz in the Bohemian state parliament, where he was a member of the state parliament from 1906 to 1911.

Private

Josef Čipera was born to the trimmers Vík Čipera and his wife Anežka, née Tvrdá. He was baptized a Roman Catholic and married his wife Maria (* 1856) in 1878. In 1880 he became the father of his first daughter Růžena, who later became the wife of the Pilsen mayor Matouš Mandl . His sons Arnošt and Antonin followed in 1881 and 1884, and his daughters Anna and Marie were born in 1888 and 1893, respectively. Čipera owned a house in Pilsen.

Awards

• Honorary Citizen of Pilsen (1907)

literature

• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907, p. 323
• Robert Luft: Parliamentary Leadership Groups and Political Structures in Czech Society. Volume 2: Czech MPs and parties of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907–1914. Biographical handbook of the Czech members of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat 1907 to 1914. Munich, Oldenbourg Verlag , 2012, p. 83 ff.