!!!Seitz, Karl

b. Vienna, Sept. 4, 1869, 
d. Vienna, Feb. 3, 1950, teacher (dismissed in 1897) and politician 
(Social Democrats, SDAP and Austrian Social Democratic Party, SPOe). 
From 1897 in the Lower Austrian provincial parliament; 1901-1918 
member of the Reichsrat, 1918-1919 one of the three presidents of the 
Provisional National Assembly and 1919-1920 first president of the 
Constituent National Assembly (thus 1918-1920 head of state of the 
Republic); 1920-1934 member of the Nationalrat. After the death of V.  
Adler 1918-1919 provisional party leader of the SDAP, 1919-1934 party 
chairman; 1923-1934 mayor and provincial governor of Vienna. 
Imprisoned in 1934, interned in a concentration camp in 1944/1945. 
After 1945 honorary president of the SPOe and 1945-1950 member of the 
Nationalrat. The community programme characteristic of Socialist 
Vienna (residential schemes, schools, social measures) was set up 
during S.'s term as a mayor.

!Publications
Volksschule oder Pfaffenschule?, 1902; Arbeiter oder 
Soldaten?, 1917; Die Schmach von Genf und die Republik, 1922.

!Literature
F. Weissensteiner and E. Weinzierl (eds.), Die 
oesterreichischen Bundespraesidenten, 1983; R. Spitzer, K. S. 
Waisenknabe, Staatspraesident, Buergermeister, 1994.



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