JOZEF HUDEC Czech political party founder & politician, autographed letter, 1938

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Autographed letter signed by the important Czech founder of the Socialist, Social Democratic Party and Democratic Party in Czechoslovakia in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.  He writes on the verso of a picture postcard of Prague, Prague, April 8, 1938.
Jozef Hudec (1873 - 1957) was a Czechoslovak politician and interwar member of the National Assembly for the Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party, then for the Socialist Party of the Czechoslovak Working People and the Czechoslovak National Democracy.
Politically active in Austria-Hungary, he was involved in the Social-Democratic movement at the end of the 19th Century. From 1897 on, he was the editor of the newspaper "Právo Lidu".
In 1907, he was elected as a Czech Social-Democrat to the Imperial Council, the Austrian-Hungarian national parliament in Vienna for the 017 district of Bohemia. He remained in the Vienna Parliament until the end of the term of office of the Chamber of Deputies in 1911.
After World War I, he sat in the Revolutionary National Assembly, where he represented the Social Democrats. During his term, however, he broke up with the party and participated in the creation of the Socialist Party of the Czechoslovak Working People. (A nationalist rather than Marxist-oriented party at that time.) He was ejected from the National Assembly for his participation. He then ran for the 1920 parliamentary elections for the new political party he helped to found and won a seat in the National Assembly. In 1923, however, he left the party's parliamentary group and became a sponsor in the National Democrats' parliamentary group. He did not defend his seat in the parliamentary elections in 1925, but he returned to parliament after the parliamentary elections in 1929, as a National Democrat. For the 1934 election, he had an epiphany and rejoined the Social Democrats. He was also the editor of the journal and an organizer of the trade union National Association in Prague.
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