Josef Gabriel (politician, 1880)

Josef Gabriel (born January 27, 1880 in Merczyfalva , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; † August 25, 1959 in Anina , People's Republic of Romania ) was a politician ( UDVP , DSVP ) and former member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies .

education and profession

Josef Gabriel was the son of the well-known farmer poet and farmer Josef Gabriel senior. He attended grammar school in Szegedin from 1891 to 1899 and, after graduating from high school, studied law at the University of Budapest , University of Cluj and University of Marburg from 1899 to 1903 . In 1903 he was in Cluj Dr. jur. PhD. From 1903 to 1907 he was an adjunct in the law firm of Ludwig Kremling in Weißkirchen . From 1907 to 1948 he worked as a freelance lawyer in Timișoara .

politics

Josef Gabriel joined the UDVP and was in discussion as a parliamentary candidate for the UDVP in 1909. In 1914 he became a board member of the South Hungarian Agricultural Farmers' Association. In 1918 he became a member of the German-Swabian People's Party, which campaigned for the Banat to fall to Romania . From November 13 to 14, 1918, he was one of the German representatives in the Romanian-Hungarian talks on the Banat and, on August 15, 1919, of the delegation of the Banat Swabians who brought the follow-up resolution of August 10, 1919 to the Romanian government.

In the election on April 2, 1919, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the constituency of Neu-Arad, where he joined the faction of the German party. He was a member of parliament until 1920. As a member of the People's Movement Committee of the German People's Party and author of its newspaper Die Wacht , he earned the reputation of a radical.

From 1926 to 1941 he was chairman of the Banat German-Swabian cultural association and an employee of its newspaper Banater Deutsche Kulturhefte . Between 1929 and 1938 Josef Gabriel was Honorary Consul of the Republic of Austria in Timișoara. From September 2, 1927 to September 21, 1927 he was Mayor of Timișoara.

Persecution and Late Years

Josef Gabriel was banned from working by the communist rulers in 1948 and was held in prison from 1951 to 1953.

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 2, 2nd edition. Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , page 641