Ludwig Czech

Ludwig Czech (born February 14, 1870 in Lemberg ; † August 20, 1942 in Theresienstadt ) was a lawyer in Brno and from 1920 chairman of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic (DSAP) . From 1929 to 1938 he held several ministerial posts in the first Czechoslovak Republic .

Political biography

Ludwig Czech was the chairman of the German Social Democratic Party in Moravia until 1919 (the title at that time was "Country Confidant").

Czech is considered to be largely responsible for the integrative course of the DSAP, which provided for the constructive cooperation of the German minority in the young Czechoslovak Republic. As part of this policy, he became Minister for Social Welfare in a broad coalition government in 1929, Minister for Public Works in 1934 and, in 1935, after his party continued to lose votes, Minister of Health. He remained in this position until the DSAP left the government in 1938.

In 1934 he helped the exiled German dentist Ewald Fabian in Prague to set up the international medical bulletin . Ludwig Czech also contributed to this magazine, which was the central organ of the International Association of Socialist Doctors founded in Karlsbad in 1931 .

The Czech cards , food stamps for the unemployed who were not bound by a union, were often bitterly needed help for both Czech and Sudeten German working-class families during the years of the economic crisis.

From 1938, after the Sudetenland split off in favor of the German Reich under the Munich Agreement , he became a victim of Nazi persecution as a Jew , Social Democrat and opponent of the SdP controlled by the German National Socialists .

After being abducted in 1942, he died in the Theresienstadt ghetto that same year .

Appreciation

Today there is a memorial plaque in Brno commemorating him as a minister, party leader, editor of the daily Volksfreund and reformer of the Brno District Health Insurance Fund.

literature

Peter Glotz : The expulsion. Bohemia as a lesson. Ullstein, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-550-07574-X .
Dr. Ludwig Czech. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 5th year (1938), issue 3–4 (April – May), p. 33 digitized

Individual evidence

^ Johann Wolfgang Brügel : Contemporary criticism of the Moravian compensation. In: Bohemia . Volume 28, 1987, pp. 364-368, here p. 368 (digitized version ) .

↑ Ludwig Czech: The struggle for public health in the Czechoslovak Republic. In: International Medical Bulletin . Volume 3 (1936), Issue 1 (January), pp. 5-11 (digitized version) ; Ludwig Czech: In the service of public health. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 3rd year (1936), Issue 9–10 (November-December), pp. 123–128 (digitized version ) ; Ludwig Czech: The health system in the ČSR. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 4th year (1937), Issue 9-10 (December), pp. 116-120 (digitized version ) .

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Czech - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Ludwig Czech in the catalog of the German National Library
Article in Radio Praha about Ludwig Czech

personal data
SURNAME	Czech, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czechoslovak politician and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lviv
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1942
Place of death	Theresienstadt ghetto

[1] Johann Wolfgang Brügel : Contemporary criticism of the Moravian compensation. In: Bohemia . Volume 28, 1987, pp. 364-368, here p. 368 (digitized version ) .

[2] Ludwig Czech: The struggle for public health in the Czechoslovak Republic. In: International Medical Bulletin . Volume 3 (1936), Issue 1 (January), pp. 5-11 (digitized version) ; Ludwig Czech: In the service of public health. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 3rd year (1936), Issue 9–10 (November-December), pp. 123–128 (digitized version ) ; Ludwig Czech: The health system in the ČSR. In: Internationales Ärztliches Bulletin , 4th year (1937), Issue 9-10 (December), pp. 116-120 (digitized version ) .