Karl Seitz
| Karl Seitz | |
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Seitz in 1919
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| 1st President of Austria | |
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In office 5 March 1919 – 9 December 1920 |
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| Chancellor |
Karl Renner Michael Mayr |
| Preceded by | none (Emperor Charles I as head of state) |
| Succeeded by | Michael Hainisch |
| President of the National Council | |
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In office 5 March 1919 – 10 November 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Franz Dinghofer |
| Succeeded by | Richard Weiskirchner |
| Mayor of Vienna | |
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In office 8 November 1923 – 12 February 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Jakob Reumann |
| Succeeded by | Richard Schmitz |
| Chairman of the SDAPÖ | |
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In office November 1918 – 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Victor Adler |
| Succeeded by | Party dissolved |
| Personal details | |
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September 4, 1869 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | February 3, 1950 (aged 80) Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Political party | Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAPÖ) |
| Spouse(s) | Emilie Heindl |
Karl Josef Seitz (German pronunciation: [kaʁl zaɪ̯ʦ]; September 4, 1869 – February 3, 1950) was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, member of the Imperial Council, President of the National Council, Mayor of Vienna and the first President of Austria.
Karl Seitz was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian empire, as the son of a struggling small-time coal trader. Following the premature death of his father in 1875, the family was thrown into abject poverty, and Seitz had to be sent off to an orphanage. Seitz nonetheless received adequate education and earned a scholarship enabling him to enroll in a teacher training college in the Lower Austrian city of St. Pölten. In 1888, he took employment as a public elementary school teacher in Vienna. Already an outspoken Social Democrat at that time, he was disciplined several times for his political activism. His founding of a Social Democratic teachers' union in 1896 led to his delegation into the Lower Austrian provincial Board of Education in 1897, which in turn led to his termination as a teacher later that same year. Seitz now turned to full-time politics and established himself as one of Austrian Social Democracy's most eminent experts on educational policy. In 1901 Seitz was elected to the Imperial Council and in 1902 to the provincial parliament of Lower Austria. Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Seitz developed pronounced pacifist leanings and participated in the 1917 Socialists' Congress.
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