Josef Seliger
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Josef Seliger (born February 16, 1870 in Schönborn near Reichenberg ; † October 18, 1920 in Teplitz-Schönau , Czechoslovakia ) was a textile worker and member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Imperial Council.
As a German MP, he was a member of the Provisional National Assembly of German Austria in 1918/19 . When he had to leave the Viennese parliament in 1919 due to the Treaty of St. Germain , which definitely added his homeland to Czechoslovakia , he was elected first chairman of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP). In 1920 he was elected a member of the National Assembly in Prague and chairman of the Social Democratic Party's club of representatives.
Life
The former textile worker was editor of the Teplitz Volksstimme from 1894 (from 1896: freedom ). At the historic party congress of the Austrian Social Democrats in Brno in 1899 , Seliger, as a consultant to the party executive committee, explained the Brno nationality program adopted at the party congress . In 1907 and 1911 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat.
After unsuccessful efforts to join his homeland to German Austria , which wanted to establish itself as part of the new German republic, he took over the chairmanship of the German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia in 1919. Josef Seliger had an appearance that made him the undisputed chairman of the DSAP. His death at the age of 50, just a few days after the second party conference, which took place in Karlsbad in 1920 , meant a heavy loss for the party.
His grave is in the Old Schönau Cemetery in Bystřany (Wisterschan) and is marked by a large sandstone block (design: Johannes Watzal).
Honors
In the municipality of Ottobrunn near Munich there is a "Josef Seliger settlement". It was built in 1952 by the non-profit refugee construction and settlement cooperative. GmbH Ottobrunn , which was founded by predominantly Sudeten German expellees .
On the occasion of the politician's 130th birthday, a memorial plaque was unveiled by the Seliger community on March 16, 2000 in the settlement of the expellees (Seliger-Siedlung) in Vienna, 10th district, Sapphogasse 20 . Here it says u. a .:
"He was one of the most important Sudeten German social democrats who, together with the other Sudeten German parties, called for a general strike on March 4, 1919, in order to stand up for the right to self-determination and to remain with Austria."
The archive of the Sudeten German Social Democrats, since 1989 stored as a separate part of the inventory at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , is named "Seliger Archive" in his honor; until the 1970s there was a publisher of the same name in Stuttgart.
literature
- MO Balling: Blessed Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 152.
- Peter Glotz : The expulsion. Bohemia as a lesson . Ullstein, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-548-36720-8 .
- Leopold Grünwald (Ed.): Sudetendeutsche. Victim and perpetrator; Violations of the right to self-determination and their consequences 1918–1982 . Junius, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-900370-05-2 .
- Jürgen Mittag: Seliger, Josef Emilian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 218 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Josef Seliger on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Information on the homepage of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipality of Ottobrunn (ed.): Ottobrunn. From Otto to the present. Self-published, Ottobrunn 1986, p. 160 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blessed, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Politician (Czechoslovakia), party leader of the DSAP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönborn near Reichenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1920 |
| Place of death | Teplitz-Schönau |