Josef Hybeš

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Josef Hybeš around 1897
The honorary grave of Josef Hybeš in the Brno Central Cemetery

Josef Hybeš also Josef Hybesch (born January 29, 1850 in Dašice near Pardubice , † July 19, 1921 in Brno ) was a Czech labor leader, politician and journalist, editor of the Brno newspaper Rovnost .

Life

Hybeš could not finish school due to lack of money and began working in the textile factories as a child at the age of nine. In 1867 he went to Vienna to look for work . He joins the workers' education association, the cradle of the social movement in Austria . In 1876 he became a workers' leader on the board of the Austrian Social Democrats . After the headquarters of the Czech-Slavic Social Democrats were moved to Vienna, he took over the organization of the party after the imprisonment of the leading ranks and managed the work on site. From 1881 to 1884 he was editor and for some time also editor-in-chief of Wiener Arbeiterblätter and a member of the publisher Zukunft and co-editor of the magazine Die Zukunft .

After a state of emergency was declared in Vienna on January 31, 1884, all leading functionaries of the Social Democrats were arrested. After his expulsion, he continued to work as a textile worker, and at the same time was the publisher of the Prostějov newspaper Hlas lidu (Voice of the People) for four years . In 1887 Hybeš went to Brno and organized the gathering of Czech workers there and worked as a journalist for the Rovnost newspaper. In 1907 he founded the association for the construction of cheap and affordable housing and organized workers' strikes.

Politician

In 1897 and 1901 he was elected as a representative of the Social Democrats in the Reichsrat and in 1920 as a representative in the Senate of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic . At the same time he represented the Social Democrats at international congresses.

Honors

In Brno, since 1928 (until 1939) and then again from 1946, the "Hybešova" street, the former street or Silniční in Old Brno (Staré Brno) has been remembering Josef Hybeš. After the Second World War there were numerous changes in his name in Brno: “Hybešova čtvrť” (1952–1992) today Julianov , “Hybešova hora” (1957–1992) today Bílá hora with its memorial, “Hybešova nemocnice” (1949–1995 ), now the SurGal Clinic , which was reversed after the Velvet Revolution .

literature

  • Otakar Franěk: Josef Hybeš. Práce a vzpomínky, I. - III. díl, Brno 1976.
  • Jindřich Veselý: Josef Hybeš, průkopník socialismu , Rovnost, Praha 1951, OCLC 27260074 .
  • Pavel Kosatík: Čeští democé: 50 nejvýznamnějších osobností veřejného života (Czech Democrats: the 50 most important figures in public life). Mladá fronta, Praha 2010, ISBN 978-80-204-2373-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ústřední hřbitov města Brna Vídeňská 96, Brno Central Cemetery, group 25e, grave no. 18. Sculpture and obelisk by Rudolf Schiebel
  2. ↑ Památník na Bílé hoře in Czech
personal data
SURNAME Hybeš, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hybesch, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech labor leader, politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Dašice
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1921
Place of death Brno