Ludwig Czech

Ludwig Czech ( born February 14, 1870 in Lviv, † 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 ). He served from 1929 to 1938 in the first Czechoslovak Republic several ministerial posts.

Political Biography

Czech considered responsible as authoritative for the inclusive price of the DSAP, the constructive work of the German minority in the young Czechoslovak Republic envisaged. Under this policy, he was in a broad coalition government in 1929 Minister for Social Welfare, 1934 Minister of Public Works and 1935, after continued losses voting his party, Minister of Health. In this position he remained out of the government in 1938 to the resignation of the DSAP.

The Czech cards, food stamps for unemployed non-union bound, were in the years of economic crisis often badly needed aid for Czech but also Sudeten German working class families.

From 1938 he was, after cleavage of the Sudetenland in favor of the German Empire under the Munich Agreement, as a Jew, a Social Democrat and opponent of the controlled by the Sudeten German National Socialist victims of Nazi persecution.

After his abduction in 1942, he died the same year in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

Appreciation

Today is located in Brno a plaque that commemorates him as a minister, party leader, editor of the daily newspaper friend of the people and reformers of the Brno district health insurance.

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