Robert Stricker

Who was Robert Stricker?

Robert Stricker was a Jewish Austrian politician.

Born in Brno on 16 August 1879, Stricker graduated from high school at the technical college. He entered the service of the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, where he was active in management.

He was elected at the 1919 Constituent National Assembly as the only representative of the Jewish National Party, founded in 1907 under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which never again succeeded in sending a representative to the Austrian Parliament.

He was the publisher of the Jewish weekly magazine Die Neue Welt, established in 1926.

In addition, Stricker was a Zionist activist, and for many years was a board member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. After the Anschluss, Robert Stricker was deported from Vienna. He is reported to have died in 1944 in Auschwitz. Contrary to a post war report he did not have a son in the US Army air corps who was captured and killed in Austria in 1945