Wilhelm Keller (politician)

Wilhelm Keller (born January 30, 1866 in Lennep , Rhine Province ; † March 29, 1941 in Oberleutensdorf ) was an Austrian - Bohemian politician ( German Progressive Party ) and industrialist. From 1911 to 1918 he was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives ( 12th legislative period ) and from 1918 to 1919 a member of the Provisional National Assembly .

Life

After elementary school, Keller attended a secondary school and was professionally active as a hat manufacturer and purveyor to the court in Oberleutensdorf . He was involved as a member of the district committee, was a councilor in Oberleutensdorf and a member of the Eger Chamber of Commerce and Industry . In addition, he was involved as committee chairman of the community savings bank. In addition to his work as a local council, Keller also represented the German Progressive Party from 1908 in the Bohemian Landtag (elected by the Eger Chamber of Commerce and Industry), and in 1911 he also ran for the Reichsrat election . He ran for the German Progressive Party in the constituency of Teplitz ( Bohemia 82 ) and achieved the absolute majority in the first ballot with 55.9 percent of the votes in front of the candidate of the Social Democrats, Karl Czermak. Keller was sworn in on July 17, 1911 and was subsequently elected to the Legitimation Committee (1911 to 1914) and the Tax Committee (1911–1913 and 1913–1914). From 1917 he was a substitute member of the finance committee, the trade committee and the maintenance committee. Keller remained inconspicuous during his time as a member of parliament, so that hardly any motions or speeches on his part appear in the stenographic minutes of the House of Representatives. After the end of the First World War, Keller was automatically a member of the Provisional National Assembly as a member of a German-speaking constituency .

Little is known about Keller's life after the First World War. However, he stayed in Oberleutensdorf and celebrated his 60th birthday there in 1926 in the circle of the "First German Gymnastics Club Oberleutensdorf 1864", of which he was an honorary spokesman, spokesman and honorary member.

literature

• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna, p. 319
• Stenographic minutes of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat ( 21st , 22nd session) on ALEX - Historical legal and legal texts online (committee memberships, speeches, motions, etc.)

Web links

• Wilhelm Keller on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Short biography of Wilhelm Keller

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stenographic Minutes - House of Representatives, 21st Session, Index, p. 195
2. ↑ Stenographic Minutes - House of Representatives, 22nd Session, Index, p. 180
3. ^ German newspaper Bohemia, January 29, 1926