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Am Haus Jodok-Fink-Platz 2 befindet sich eine bronzene Gedenktafel mit einem Relief-Porträt von Jodok Fink und folgender Inschrift:
Jodok Fink
1853 - 1929
Vom Pflug rief Dich das Vaterland
Du halfst es bau'n mit weiser Hand
C.Philipp 1936
28. VI. 1936
Zur Person:
Jodok Fink (* 19. Februar 1853 in Andelsbuch; † 1. Juli 1929 ebenda) war ein österreichischer Landwirt und Politiker (CS).
Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Landwirt machte Fink politische Karriere in der Donaumonarchie und spielte bei der Gründung des Nachfolgestaates Deutschösterreich eine zentrale Rolle. In der bewegten Frühzeit der 1. Republik trat Fink in seiner Regierungsfunktion als Vizekanzler neben Staatskanzler Karl Renner als Mann des Ausgleichs zwischen der Christlichsozialen und der Sozialdemokratischen Partei auf.
Quelle & weitere Informationen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodok_Fink
< EN >
At the house Jodok-Fink-Platz 2 is a bronze memorial plaque with a relief portrait of Jodok Fink and the following inscription:
Jodok Fink
1853-1929
The fatherland called you from the plow
You helped build it with a wise hand
C.Philipp, 1936
28. VI. 1936
About the person:
Jodok Fink (19 February 1853 – 1 July 1929) was an Austrian farmer and politician who was a member of the Christian Social Party of Austria (CS). He served as first Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1919 to 1920.
During the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I, Fink was elected one of the three presidents of the German-Austrian provisional national assembly on 21 October 1918. He made his mark as a strong opponent of a unification with the German Weimar Republic, though against the majority of the assembly, and also spoke against tendencies to attach his Allemannic home country Vorarlberg to Switzerland.
Upon the Austrian Constitutional Assembly election, Fink on 15 March 1919 was able to forge a grand coalition government with the left-wing Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) under State Chancellor Karl Renner and to assume the newly established office of an Austrian Vice-Chancellor. Fink played a vital role in Austrian internal politics during the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, becoming CS faction leader in the National Council parliament, which ratified the treaty on 17 October 1919. Accompanied by fierce protests, Chancellor Renner and his government resigned, though another cabinet of Social Democratic and Christian Social ministers under Renner and Fink was immediately formed and confirmed by the National Council.
Source & further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodok_Fink