Emanuel Chobot Explained

Emanuel Chobot
Office:Member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
Term Start:1929
Term End:1935
Birth Date:1 January 1881
Birth Place:Orłowa, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:Ostrava, Nazi Germany
Nationality:Polish
Party:Polish Socialist Workers Party
Occupation:Trade unionist

Emanuel Chobot (pronounced as /pl/; 1 January 1881 – 7 June 1944) was a Polish trade union activist and politician. He was the chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party, the social democratic party active amongst the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia. He was also the Director-General of the Consumers Association 'Gec' in Moravská Ostrava.[1]

Personal life

Chobot was the son of Józef Chobot (a coal miner by profession) and Barbara Uher. He graduated from primary school in Orłowa and worked as a coal miner in Łazy and (1895–1898) and Orłowa (1898–1907).[2] He was married to Franziska Onderek. He lived at Nádražní 96, Moravská Ostrava.[1]

Trade unionism and cooperative movement

Chobot joined the miners movement. He was a member of the miners union 'Prokop' and the Miners' Union of Moravia, Silesia and Galicia (later transformed into the Miners' Union of Austria). Chobot led the Třinec branch of the Union of Metalworkers. Chobot was also active in the cooperative movement. He served as deputy chairman of the District Health Fund in Cieszyn in 1910–1912. From 1912 he led the Ostrava branch of the Austrian consumers' cooperative movement. During the First World War, he led the Polish Workers Association 'Siła'.[2]

Parliamentarian

Chobot was elected Member of Parliament in the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, representing the electoral coalition of the Polish minority parties and the Jewish Party. Chobot was one of two Polish parliamentarians elected on behalf of this coalition, the other being Jan Buzek of the Polish People's Party.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chobot, Emanuel . 2010-01-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110516002321/http://www.dreyblatt.de/whoswho/BioFileC.HTML . 2011-05-16 . dead.
  2. Elektroniczny Słownik Biograficzny Śląska Cieszyńskiego - CHOBOT EMANUEL
  3. Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl. Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1979. pp. 229–230