Albin Dötsch (27 October 1872 – 17 March 1922) was an Austro-Hungarian politician, who was a member of the Austrian Imperial Council in the early 20th century, for the

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(SPÖ, or SDAPÖ at the time).

Biography

Dötsch was a private official. At the beginning of the century, he was involved in national politics. In the Cisleithanian legislative election of 1907, the first held by universal and equal suffrage, Dötsch won a mandate in the Imperial Council for the constituency of Bohemia. He sat in the parliamentary faction of the Club of the SDAPÖ. Over the same circuit, he also defended his mandate in the elections to the Imperial Council in 1911 and remained in the Vienna parliament until the end of the monarchy. After

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, he was, from 1918 to 1919, a member of the

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of the

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. He died of severe illnesses in 1922.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dotsch, Albin 1872 births 1922 deaths People from Cheb District German Bohemian people Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1911–1918) Members of the Provisional National Assembly Civil servants from Austria-Hungary