Rudolf Heeger

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Rudolf Heeger (born April 25, 1883 in Šternberk ; † November 3, 1939 in Mährisch-Ostrau ) was a German-Bohemian social democrat and a member of the Czech parliament in Prague from 1920 to 1938.

Life

Rudolf Heeger as a speaker at an event in 1924

Rudolf Heeger became a member of the youth organization “Rote Nelke” of the social democratic party in Austria in his hometown of Šternberk in 1899. He was present at the founding convention of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party (DSAP) in the Czechoslovak Republic from August 30 to September 3, 1919 in Teplitz . He reported the number of members, which was 200,000. From 1910 to 1938 he was party secretary and editor, later editor of the newspaper “Volkspresse”, the organ of the DSAP for the constituency of Mährisch-Ostrau-Troppau. In the DSAP, he was district chairman from its foundation in 1919, 1919/1920 and from 1935 to 1938 a member of the party executive at state level, from March 1938 deputy party chairman.

After moving to Jägerndorf , Heeger was also active in local politics. From 1919 on he was secretary of the International Metalworkers Union in Jägerndorf. Rudolf Heeger became a member of the Czech Parliament in Prague in 1920. In the elections in 1925 and 1929, he won his parliamentary seat again. He was also re-elected in the parliamentary elections in May 1935 and was one of the eleven Social Democratic MPs.

Various activities of Rudolf Heeger during his time as a member of parliament are documented on the website of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. An interpellation about acts of violence in the Hultschin district is known from 1920, as well as another from the same year when he, together with other social democratic MPs, called for municipal council elections and elections to the Czech National Assembly in eastern Silesia and the Hultschin district. These areas were reclassified from Germany to the Czech Republic in 1920.

In a speech in parliament on April 28, 1936, Rudolf Heeger dealt with the program and activities of the Sudeten German Party , which was chaired by Konrad Henlein and which had received numerous mandates in the 1935 elections. He accused this party of applying the Hitler dictatorship as a democracy, that it had "introduced the totality standpoint and the Führer principle" in its own party. In 1936 there was a failed attempt to kidnap him as a well-known opponent of National Socialism to Germany.

After the Sudetenland became part of Germany in autumn 1938, he lost his seat as a member of parliament, moved to Mährisch-Ostrau and was one of the Germans who resisted Hitler. In March 1939 he was imprisoned in the Gestapo in Prague and transferred to the Pankrác prison , from which he was released in the same year. Shortly afterwards he died. At the end of 1939 , Wenzel Jaksch reported about his death in a circular to the Social Democrats from the Sudetenland who had emigrated to England. His fate is also dealt with in the information service Sozialistische Mitteilungen - News for German Socialists in England of July 1, 1942. Efforts by the DSAP board in Sweden to enable him to leave occupied Czechoslovakia came too late. Mads Ole Balling reports on his death: "Before he was released from a new Gestapo prison, he was given three syringes and Heeger was a terminally ill man within a few days."

literature

Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Manual of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volumes I and II, Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-1-8 , pp. 252f., 417f., 785, 789 , 840

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , p. 417.
  2. ↑ Internet site of the Czech Parliament [1] , accessed on November 7, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-biographical manual of the parliamentarians of the German minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , p. 418 (Balling states in brackets on the day of his death: “ November 1, 1939?.) "
  4. ↑ Martin K. Bachstein: 90 years ago: The foundation of the DSAP in: Die Brücke. Bulletin of the community of Sudeten German Social Democrats , No. 19, March 2009, p. 2 digitized version , accessed on November 7, 2015
  5. ^ Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , p. 252.
  6. ^ A b c Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest. Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 1, Documentation-Verlag, Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , p. 253.
  7. ↑ Toni Herget: Die Sudeten German politicians in the fateful year of 1938 , in: Sudetenpost, Vienna Linz, No. 22 of November 17, 1968, p. 6 digitized version , accessed on November 8, 2015
  8. ↑ Internet site of the Czech Parliament [2] , accessed on November 7, 2015
  9. ↑ Internet site of the Czech Parliament [3] , accessed on November 7, 2015
  10. ↑ Internet site of the Czech Parliament [4] , accessed on November 8, 2015
  11. ↑ Internet site of the Czech Parliament [5] , accessed on November 8, 2015
  12. ↑ Miroslava Marchalová: The Sudeten Germans and the disappeared Sudetenland using the example of the Gratzener area (Novohradske Hory) , Czech Budweis 2012, p. 13 digitized version , accessed on November 8, 2015
  13. ^ Announcements for the England group of the Sudeten German Social Democrats dated November 24, 1939 Digitized table of contents , accessed on November 7, 2015
  14. ^ Socialist messages - News for German Socialists in England , No. 39 of July 1, 1942, p. 7 Digital copy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , accessed on November 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Heeger, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heeger-Jägerndorf, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Bohemian Social Democrat and member of the Czech Parliament in Prague (1920–1938)
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Šternberk
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1939
Place of death Moravian-Ostrava