Josef Ursin (politician, 1863)

Josef Ursin , until 1886 nonsense (born June 27, 1863 in Tulln , † October 29, 1932 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician of the Greater German People's Party (GdP).

Life

Josef Ursin came from a Tulln family that could look back on a German national tradition: Even his father of the same name, Josef Ursin , who was elected mayor of Tulln three times, belonged to the German Liberal Party and the Schönerer movement and was a successful candidate for a German national seat in 1887 Reichsrat .

Encouraged by his father, Ursin found access to the ideas of the German national movement at an early age and, in particular, to content on race theory : During his high school years, he read the standard anti-Semitic works by Arthur de Gobineau and Eugen Dühring . After graduating from high school , he studied medicine at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck . There he drew targeted anti-Semitic propaganda considerable attention and was temporarily by both universities relegated . During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Vienna fraternity in 1881 and was one of the co-founders of the Germania Innsbruck fraternity in 1892 . After completing his studies, he worked as a neurologist in Tulln.

Like his father, he joined the German National Party and became a close associate of Georg von Schönerer . Together with the German national Heirich Niklas, Ursin founded the German Gymnastics Club in Tulln , which served as a collective movement for local racial anti-Semites and later for illegal National Socialists . Ursinn is also the founder of the Pan-German Association for the Ostmark , which united with other German national parties to form the GdP in 1920. In 1919 he made it into the Austrian Parliament . There he was "the uncompromising anti-Semite since his birth, always endeavoring to take the most energetic position against the influence of Judaism and against the destruction of the German people by the Jews." The main target of his anti-Semitic attacks were the East Jewish war refugees from Galicia . At a mass anti-Semitic rally organized by the German People's Council for Vienna and Lower Austria in 1919 on Vienna's Rathausplatz , he called for a pogrom against the Jews.

After his death in 1932, his son Karl Ursin continued his work on race politics. During the time of National Socialism , the municipality of Tulln applied for a street name after Dr. Josef Ursin, which, however, did not take place for formal reasons.

Political functions

Member of the party leadership of the GdP
Chairman of the Old German Associations for the East Mark

Political mandates

March 4, 1919 to November 9, 1920: Member of the Constituent National Assembly , GdP
November 10, 1920 to November 20, 1923: Member of the National Council ( 1st legislative period ), GdP

Web links

Josef Ursin on the website of the Austrian Parliament

literature

Biack, Otto (1942). "Dr. Josef Ursin, on the 10th anniversary of his death ”. In: Donauwacht. Messages from the NSDAP for the Tulln district . October 30, 1924. p. 5.
Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 98-99.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Tulln St. Stephan baptismal register, tom. XII, supplement to fol. 7th
^ Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 61.
↑ Robert Kriechbaumer : The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945 (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg . Volume 12 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99400-0 , p. 440 f .
↑ Biack, Otto (1942). "Dr. Josef Ursin, on the 10th anniversary of his death ”. In: Donauwacht. Messages from the NSDAP for the Tulln district. October 30, 1924. p. 5.
^ Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 61 f.
^ Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 62.

personal data
SURNAME	Ursin, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nonsense, Josef (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (GdP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tulln
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1932
Place of death	Vienna

[:0-1] Tulln St. Stephan baptismal register, tom. XII, supplement to fol. 7th

[2] Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 61.

[3] Robert Kriechbaumer : The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945 (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg . Volume 12 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-205-99400-0 , p. 440 f .

[4] Biack, Otto (1942). "Dr. Josef Ursin, on the 10th anniversary of his death ”. In: Donauwacht. Messages from the NSDAP for the Tulln district. October 30, 1924. p. 5.

[5] Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 61 f.

[6] Schwarz, Peter (1997). Tulln is Jewish! The history of the Tulln Jews and their fate from 1938 to 1945: persecution - expulsion - extermination . Vienna: Löcker. P. 62.