Ludwig Kremling
Ludwig Kremling (born May 12, 1861 in Weißkirchen , Banat military border in the Austrian Empire ; † May 29, 1930 in Novi Sad , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was the first chairman of the Hungarian German People's Party and the German Party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .
Life
The son of a family of craftsmen attended the German elementary school and the German secondary school in Weißkirchen. In 1880 Kremling initially studied history and geography at the University of Budapest , but in 1882, during the Herzegovinian strike, he took up position as a reserve officer. From 1883 he studied law, in which he also received his doctorate. In 1893 he established himself as a lawyer in his hometown. There he was elected to the local council and vice-president of the municipal school chair; in the meantime he was also active as a municipal head tax office.
After the dissolution of the military border and its incorporation into the Kingdom of Hungary , Kremling opposed the subsequent Magyarization and stood up for the right to German, Serbian and Romanian languages in schools and administration. In 1899 he was involved in the establishment and maintenance of the German daily newspaper for Hungary and the German-Hungarian People's Friend . In 1902 he founded the "United Nationalities Party" with Serbian and Romanian representatives with a free democratic program. As a candidate for Zichydorf , he narrowly lost the election to the Hungarian Parliament in 1905.
On December 30, 1906, Ludwig Kremling called the "Hungarian German People's Party" into being in Werschetz , of which he remained chairman until it was dissolved in 1929. In Yugoslavia, he held the post of chairman of the German party founded in 1922 .
literature
- Josef Volkmar Senz : History of the Danube Swabians: from the beginnings to the present , Amalthea, 1993, ISBN 3-85002-342-7 , p. 89.
- Anton Peter Petri : Short biographies of German-conscious men in the undivided Banat. Munich 1979.
Web links
- † Dr. Ludwig Kremling In: Deutsche Zeitung Number 45, Celje, June 5, 1930, p. 1
- Kremling, Ludwig . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kremling, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-Yugoslav politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißkirchen , Austrian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1930 |
| Place of death | Novi Sad , Kingdom of Yugoslavia |