!!!Zelinka, Andreas

b. Vyškov, Czech Republic (then Wischau), Feb. 23, 1802, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 21, 1868, lawyer. From 1831 commissioner of public 
health; later worked as a barrister; was elected municipal councillor 
of Vienna in 1848; Mayor of Vienna from 1861-1868; from 1862 member of 
the Lower Austrian Landtag and from 1867 member of the Upper Chamber 
of the Reichsrat. Contributed to the planning of the first 
water-supply pipeline for Vienna, which was to provide the city with 
spring water from Lower Austrian mountains, the regulation of the 
Danube and the foundation of the Vienna Central Cemetery.

!Literature
F. Czeike, Wien und seine Buergermeister, 1974.



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