Ludwig Czech | |
Party: | SDAPÖ DSAP |
Birth Date: | 14 February 1870 |
Birth Place: | Lviv, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Theresienstadt, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |
Ludwig Czech (14 February 1870 – 20 August 1942) was a German-speaking Jewish Czech member of the German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic who actively participated in the Czechoslovak politics of the so-called First Republic. He was a Minister of Social Care (1929–1934). Minister of Public Affairs (1934–1935), Minister of Public Health and Physical Training (1935–1938).[1] [2] He died in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942, officially having died of pneumonia, heart failure, and edema of the lungs.[3]