Robert Stricker (16 August 1879 – 28 October 1944) was a

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politician. Born in

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(present-day Czech Republic), 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 Austrian Constitutional Assembly election Constituent Assembly elections were held in Austria on 16 February 1919, and were the first election in which all women were allowed to vote. German citizens living in Austria and Sudeten Germans living in the newly-formed Czechoslovakia were als ...

as the only representative of the Jewish National Party, founded in 1907 under the

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, which never again succeeded in sending a representative to the Austrian Parliament. In addition, Stricker was a Zionist activist, and for many years was a board member of the '' Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien''. He was the publisher of the Jewish weekly magazine ''

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'', established in 1926 as a replacement for the defunct Zionist journal '' Die Welt''. After the '' Anschluss'', Robert Stricker was sent to

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, but was eventually released. In 1942 he was sent to Theresienstadt, and is reported to have been killed in October 1944 in

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.german: (unsigned)
Unsterbliche Opfer. Zwölf Parlamentarier wurden Opfer des NS-Terrors
Parlamentskorrespondenz/09/17.09.2001/Nr. 609, Website of the Austrian Parliament

Notes and sources

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, 920? 39 p.
on microfilm at the Library of Congress
*Fraenkel, Josef (ed.), Robert Stricker, London, 1950, 94 p., LCCN 54031133 1879 births 1944 deaths Musicians from Brno People from the Margraviate of Moravia Czech Jews Jewish Austrian politicians Jewish National Party politicians Members of the Constituent National Assembly (Austria) Dachau concentration camp survivors Theresienstadt Ghetto prisoners Austrian civilians killed in World War II Austrian Jews who died in the Holocaust Austrian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Politicians who died in Nazi concentration camps Czech people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust Czech Zionists {{Austria-politician-stub