Heinrich Mataja | |
Office: | Minister of the Interior |
Chancellor: | Karl Renner |
Term Start: | 30 October 1918 |
Term End: | 15 March 1919 |
Predecessor: | office established |
Successor: | Karl Renner |
Office1: | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Chancellor1: | Rudolf Ramek |
Term Start1: | 20 November 1924 |
Term End1: | 15 January 1926 |
Predecessor1: | Alfred Grünberger |
Successor1: | Rudolf Ramek |
Birth Date: | 1877 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
Death Place: | Vienna |
Party: | Christian Social Party |
Heinrich Mataja (14 March 1877 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Party.
Mataja was from 1913 to 1918 a member of the Imperial Council (Austria). From 21 October 1918, he was a member of the from this emerged Provisorische Nationalversammlung for the Republic of German-Austria, of 4 March 1919, a member of the Constituent National Assembly and from 10 November 1920 – 1930 member of the National Council (Austria).
During this period he was still from 30 October 1918 to 15 March 1919 in the government Renner I State Minister of the Interior and from 20 November 1924 to 14 January 1926 Austrian foreign minister.
He supported the Christian Federal State of Austria formed in 1934 by Engelbert Dollfuss. He was from 1896 to 1900 a member of the fraternity Wiener Akademische Burschenschaft Olympia.[1]
He was brought with the signs of a stroke to hospital on 22 January 1937. He died there the next day.On 27 January 1937 he was buried at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof[2] in an honorary grave of the town Vienna.[3]