Franz Spina
Franz Spina was a German-Czechoslovak politician. He was right-wing and activist politician of the First Republic Era. Franz Spina was chairman of Bund der Landwirte, or Union of Farmers and Rural Enterprises, right-wing party of German-speaking countryside of Czechoslovakia. His party was the first to actively cooperate with Czechoslovak government and entered the Cabinet of Lord's Coalition together with Czechoslovak agrarians, clericals, entrepreneurs and National [Democratic Party (Czechoslovakia)|national democrats]. Franz Spina became the very first ethnic German government minister in Czechoslovakia. Since the establishment of Sudeten German Party, popularity of Union of Farmers had been declining. However, Spina believed in successful Czechoslovak-German cooperation until his death in 1938, fortnight before the Munich Agreement.
Category:1868 births
Category:1938 deaths
Category:People from Svitavy District
Category:People from the [Margraviate of Moravia]
Category:Moravian-German people
Category:Farmers' [League politicians]
Category:Government [ministers of Czechoslovakia]
Category:Members of the [Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1920–1925)]
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1925–1929)
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1929–1935)
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939)
Category:Sudeten German people
Category:People from Austria-Hungary