Ludwig Czech
Appearance
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Personal details | |
Born | Lviv, Austria-Hungary | 14 February 1870
Died | 20 August 1942 Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | (aged 72)
Political party | SDAPÖ DSAP |
Ludwig Czech (14 February 1870 – 20 August 1942) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic who actively participated in the Czechoslovak politics of the so-called First Republic. He was a Minister of Social Care (1929–1934). Minister of Public Affairs (1934–1935), Minister of Public Health and Physical Training (1935–1938).[1][2] He died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942, officially having died of pneumonia, heart failure, and edema of the lungs.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jewish History of the Czech Republic
- ^ Jewish Community of Brno web page
- ^ "Czech Ludwig: Death certificate, Ghetto Terezin". holocaust.cz. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
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- 1870 births
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- Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
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- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1920–1925)
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1925–1929)
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1929–1935)
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939)
- Members of the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International
- Jewish socialists
- Czech people who died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto
- Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Deaths from pneumonia in Czechoslovakia
- Deaths from pulmonary edema
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