Karl Marek (politician, 1850)

Karl Marek , also Karel Marek (born March 2, 1850 in Pátek , Kingdom of Bohemia ; † October 15, 1936 or 1937 in Holoubkov , Czechoslovakia ) was a Czech- Austrian civil servant responsible for railways and minister for public works in 1911.

Karl Marek

Life

Marek's villa in Holoubkov, built in 1907–10 by Jan Kotěra

Marek, son of the Czech landowner Karel Marek, graduated from high school in Königgrätz and then mechanical engineering at the Czech technical university in Prague . After working in the Skoda works in Pilsen , he came into the management of the Dux-Bodenbacher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1880 . After their nationalization in 1884, Marek moved to the management of the kk state railways in Prague, where he was appointed Ministerial Councilor. Privy Councilor Marek represented the state railways in international bodies and was promoted to section head in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Railways in 1909 .

He married Anna Pecharová, daughter of the industrialist and railway director Jan Pechar.

From January 9 to November 3, 1911, Marek acted as Austrian Minister for Public Works in the Bienerth and Gautsch cabinets . During his tenure, he was responsible for enforcing the Housing Welfare Fund Act and Washington Trademark Registration Agreements . Alois Czedik describes him as a capable, technically well-versed railway official, to whom the public position as a minister, however, was alien.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jan Kotera Architects Lexicon
2. ↑ ^{a b} Alois Czedik von Bründlsberg and Eysenberg : On the history of the kk Austrian ministries, 1861-1916. Based on the memories of Alois von Czedik. Volume 4: Period 1908-1916. K. Prochaska, Teschen / Vienna 1920, p. 126f.
3. ↑ Karel (Carl) Marek (Czech)
4. ^ Fritz Fellner (Ed.): Fateful Years of Austria 1908-1919. Josef Redlich's political diary. Volume 3: Biographical data and registers. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78617-7 , p. 152.