Josef Mayer (politician, 1877)

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Josef Mayer (born April 9, 1877 in Eger , Bohemia ; † May 3, 1938 ibid) was a German-Bohemian and German-Austrian politician for the German National Party .

Life

After attending elementary school and secondary school, he graduated from the Munich Brewers Academy and in 1905 took over his father's brewery .

Mayer began his political career as a committee member of the German section of the State Culture Council for Bohemia and a member of the Bohemian State Parliament . In 1911 he was elected a member of the Reichsrat ( XI. And XII. Legislative period ); the term of office of the members of parliament was extended to December 31, 1918 during the First World War.

When the German Reichsrat members of Old Austria formed the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria on October 21, 1918 , Mayer was a member until the last session of this parliament on February 16, 1919. Appointed by the Executive Committee (later Council of State) of Parliament, he acted from October 30, 1918 to March 15, 1919 in the Renner I State Government as State Secretary for Army Affairs and thus as the first Defense Minister of Republican Austria.

The claim of German Austria to make German Bohemia part of its state could not be enforced against Czechoslovakia . Mayer's homeland was therefore unable to take part in the election for the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 1919. Mayer then returned to Bohemian politics and sat from 1920 to 1926 for the farmers' union in the Czechoslovak parliament in Prague. Excluded from the BdL in 1927, he founded the Sudeten German Land Association in 1928 and cooperated with the German National Party and the German National Socialist Workers' Party.

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  1. ↑ portafontium.eu - Baptismal Register Eger (Cheb), Böhmen, 1873-1883, page 78, 3rd line
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SURNAME Mayer, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (DnP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger / Cheb
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1938
Place of death Eger / Cheb