!!!Schmitz, Richard

b. Mohelnice, Czech Republic (then Mueglitz), Dec. 14, 1885, 
d. Vienna, April 27, 1954, politician (Christian Social Party), 
director of the  Katholischer Volksbund. 1920-1934 member of the 
Nationalrat, 1922-1924, 1930, 1933/1934 Minister of Social Affairs; as 
Minister of Education (1926-1929) put an end to the school dispute 
with the Social Democrats in 1927 and established new school types,  
Hauptschule (secondary modern school), a secondary school for workers 
(Arbeitermittelschule) and an intensive two-year grammar school 
(Aufbauschule). Vice-Chancellor (1930) and Mayor of Vienna (1934-1938; 
initiator of the scenic Vienna Hoehenstrasse road). 1938-1945 in a 
concentration camp, then chief executive of the Herold-Verlag 
publishing company.

!Literature
F. Braun, Der politische Lebensweg des Buergermeisters R. 
S., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1968.



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