Julius Klimek
Julius Klimek (born April 8, 1897 in Nemile near Mährisch Schönberg , † February 8, 1950 in Valašské Meziříčí , Czechoslovakia ) was a Czechoslovak Catholic clergyman , religion teacher , politician and member of parliament .
Life
The father Hynek Klimek was an active Catholic Christian Democrat and lived in the Mährisch Schönberg district, which at that time belonged to Austria-Hungary . Julius Klimek graduated from high school in Hohenstadt and collected the folk songs of the north Moravian homeland for Leoš Janáček . He then studied Catholic theology in Olomouc , was ordained a priest in 1919 and became a chaplain in Freistadt . Meanwhile, after the end of World War I, the Czechoslovak Republic was established and Klimek became a member of the Křesťanská a Demokratieická unie - Československá strana lidová , KDU-ČSL ( Christian and Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party ). Together with his brother Adolf Klimek , he was committed to the development and political significance of this people's party.
Until 1934 he was employed as a religion teacher at the teachers seminar and grammar school in Valašské Meziříčí and from 1935 he taught as a religion teacher at the Czech-language school association Komenský , named after Johann Amos Comenius , in Vienna. Julius Klimek was from October 27, 1945 to May 16, 1946 a member of the KDU-ČSL at the Provisional Czechoslovak National Assembly ( Prozatimní národní shromáždění ). After the parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia in 1946 he was a member of the Constituent National Assembly of Czechoslovakia from June 1946 to May 30, 1948, the aim of which was to draft and pass a new Czechoslovak constitution . Until the February revolution in 1948, he worked on the Finance and Culture Committee of the National Assembly.
His nephew was the Prague historian Antonín Klimek (1937-2005).
Web links
- Julius Klimek (* April 8, 1897) (PDF; 132 kB) in: Historický Kalendář (duben 8, 2012) (Czech).
- Julius Klimek's biographical note in: Slovník osobností východní Moravy (Czech).
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.psp.cz/sqw/detail.sqw?org=287&id=2060
- ↑ Constituent Assembly. Zeno full-text library , accessed August 12, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klimek, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak Catholic clergyman, religion teacher, politician and member of parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nemile near Mährisch Schönberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1950 |
| Place of death | Valašské Meziříčí , Czechoslovakia |