Othmar Kallina
Othmar Kallina (born September 10, 1889 in Auspitz , Moravia , † May 12, 1945 in Karlsbad ) was a German politician, author and editor in Czechoslovakia .
Life
Kallina studied at the German Technical University in Brno , where he joined the Arminia Brünn and Constantia Prague fraternities , both of which have merged into the Sudetia fraternity in Munich. After that, the civil engineer had a job in 1914 as a building commissioner and head of the Klagenfurt municipal building authority . In 1914 and 1915, Kallina worked as a lecturer and assistant at the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and Improvement of the German Technical University in Brno. In 1916, Kallina became director of the Karlsbader waterworks.
On September 21, 1919, he was one of the founders of the German National Party . From 1920 to 1935 he was a member of the Czechoslovak Parliament, until 1933 for the German National Party (DNP), and after its self-dissolution, he founded the Club of German Nationalists with four other members .
Kallina lived in the Augarten house in Karlsbad. He was the editor of the Sudetendeutscher Volksdienst - Völkische Wochenkorrespondenz . After the end of the Second World War he ended his life by suicide.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 56-57.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kallina, Othmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician, author and editor in Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auspitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1945 |
| Place of death | Carlsbad |