Jodok Fink
| Jodok Fink | |
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Fink Monument in Bregenz
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| Vice-Chancellor of Austria | |
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In office 15 March 1919 – 7 July 1920 |
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| President | Karl Seitz |
| Chancellor | Karl Renner |
| Preceded by | none (inaugural holder) |
| Succeeded by | Ferdinand Hanusch |
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| Born |
19 February 1853 Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, Austrian Empire |
| Died | 1 July 1929 (aged 76) Andelsbuch, Vorarlberg, Austria |
| Political party | Christian Social Party |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Jodok Fink (19 February 1853 – 1 July 1929) was an Austrian farmer and politician who was a member of the Christian Social Party of Austria (CS). He served as first Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1919 to 1920.
Fink was born in Andelsbuch, in the Bregenz Forest region, the son of a farmer's family. He and his younger brother Alois were the only surviving children; his father died when Fink was four years old, whereafter his mother remarried. The bright pupil went on to attend the Gymnasium secondary school in Brixen but soon had to abandon his education to work on his family's farmstead.
Fink began his political career in 1879, when he was elected a member of the municipal assembly (Gemeindeausschuss) in Andelsbuch and served as mayor from 1888 to 1897. Actually a moderate Conservative, he joined the Landtag assembly of Vorarlberg in 1890 and the newly established Christian Social Party in 1893. He was elected MP of the Austrian Imperial Council parliament in 1897 where he did not join the faction of his antiliberal and antisemitic Christian Social party fellows until 1901. His career as a CS party executive was further promoted, when the long-time leader Karl Lueger died in 1910.
During the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, Fink was elected one of the three presidents of the German-Austrian provisional national assembly on 21 October 1918. He made his mark as a strong opponent of a unification with the German Weimar Republic, though against the majority of the assembly, and also spoke against tendencies to attach his Allemannic home country Vorarlberg to Switzerland.
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