Robert Stricker

Robert Stricker (b. 16 August 1879, Brno, d. 1944, Auschwitz) was a Jewish Austrian politician.

Born in Brno (present-day Czech Republic) on 16 August 1879, Stricker graduated from high school at the technical college. He entered the service of the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, where he was active in management.

He was elected at the 1919 Constituent National Assembly as the only representative of the Jewish National Party, founded in 1907 under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which never again succeeded in sending a representative to the Austrian Parliament.

He was the publisher of the Jewish weekly magazine Die Neue Welt, established in 1926.^[1]

In addition, Stricker was a Zionist activist, and for many years was a board member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. After the Anschluss, Robert Stricker was deported from Vienna. He is reported to have died in 1944 in Auschwitz.^[2].

Notes and sources

^ Die Neue Welt, March 27, 1931, nr. 186
^ German: (unsigned), Unsterbliche Opfer. Zwölf Parlamentarier wurden Opfer des NS-Terrors, Parlamentskorrespondenz/09/17.09.2001/Nr. 609, Website of the Austrian Parliament

Bibliography

Stricker, Robert, Jüdische Politik in Oesterreich : Tätigkeitsbericht und Auszüge aus den im österreichischen Parlamente 1919 und 1920 gehaltenen Reden / Robert Stricker, Wien : Wiener Morgen-Zeitung, [1920?], 39 p. (on microfilm at the Library of Congress)
Fraenkel, Josef (ed.), Robert Stricker, London, 1950, 94 p., LCCN 54031133

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Name	Stricker, Robert
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Date of birth	16 August 1879
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Date of death	1944
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