Ludvík Singer

Ludvík Singer (before 1919; unknown photographer)

Ludvík Singer (born February 13, 1876 in Kolín , Austria-Hungary ; died July 23, 1931 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak politician of Czech Jewry.

Life

Ludvík Singer grew up close to the Jewish community in Kolin and studied law at the Charles University in Prague and at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in Prague in 1899. He then worked in a law firm in Reichenberg and from 1906 in his own legal practice in Kolín . From 1909 he was based in Prague. He was involved in the Zionist movement in Bohemia, whose organization he headed from 1910. At the end of the First World War in 1918 he was one of the founders of the Jewish National Council (Národní rada židovská) and was chairman of the Jewish Party (Židovská Strana). In 1919 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Jewish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference to represent the interests of the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia. Singer subsequently campaigned for the Jews in Czechoslovakia to learn the Czech language and cooperated more with the Czechoslovak Social Democrats than with the representatives of the German or the small Polish minority.

From 1919 until his death, Singer was a member of the Prague City Council, and in 1930 he also became President of the Prague Jewish Community. In 1929 he was elected to the Czechoslovak parliament thanks to an electoral alliance between his Jewish party and the Polish minority party.

The graphologist Robert Saudek (1880-1935) was a brother-in-law of Singer, the Holocaust survivor and writer Hana Bořkovcová (1927-2009) was a granddaughter.

literature

Kateřina Čapková: Singer, Ludvík , in YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe , 2008, p.
J. Harna: Singer, Ludvík. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 298 f. (Direct links on p. 298 , p. 299 ).
Tatjana Lichtenstein: Jewish power and powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Conference , in: East European Jewish affairs, ISSN 1743-971X, Vol. 44 (2014), No. 1, pp. 2–20

Individual evidence

↑ Kateřina Čapková: Czechs, Germans, Jews: national identity and the Jews of Bohemia . Translation Derek Paton, Marzia Paton. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012 ISBN 978-0-85745-475-1 , pp. 28ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Singer, Ludvík
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czechoslovak politician of Czech Jewry
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kolín
DATE OF DEATH	July 23, 1931
Place of death	Prague

[1] Kateřina Čapková: Czechs, Germans, Jews: national identity and the Jews of Bohemia . Translation Derek Paton, Marzia Paton. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012 ISBN 978-0-85745-475-1 , pp. 28ff.