Emanuel Chobot was a Polish trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 activist and politician from the region of Zaolzie

Zaolzie

Zaolzie is the Polish name for an area now in the Czech Republic which was disputed between interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia. The name means "lands beyond the Olza River"; it is also called Śląsk zaolziański, meaning "trans-Olza Silesia". Equivalent terms in other languages include Zaolší in...

, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

. He was the chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party

Polish Socialist Workers Party

Polish Socialist Workers Party was a political party in Czechoslovakia founded in February 1921, based amongst Polish workers. The party was active in trade union struggles, mainly mobilizing miners and workers in heavy industries. The chairman of the party was Emanuel Chobot. Other prominent...

, the social democratic party active amongst the Polish minority in interbellum Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

. He was also the Director-General of the Consumers Association 'Gec' in Moravská Ostrava

Ostrava

Ostrava is the third largest city in the Czech Republic and the second largest urban agglomeration after Prague. Located close to the Polish border, it is also the administrative center of the Moravian-Silesian Region and of the Municipality with Extended Competence. Ostrava was candidate for the...

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Personal life

Chobot was the son of Józef Chobot (a coal miner by profession) and Barbara Uher. He graduated from elementary school in Orłowa and worked as a coal miner in Łazy

Lazy (Orlová)

is a village in Karviná District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Orlová in 1946. It has a population of 274.It was first mentioned in a written document in 1305.- People :...

 and (1895-1898) and Orłowa (1898-1907). He was married to Franziska Onderek.

Chobot lived at Nádražní 96, Moravská Ostrava, and had telephone number '23-62'.

Trade unionism and cooperative movement

Chobot joined the miners movement. He was a member of the miners union 'Prokop' and the Miners' Union of Moravia, Silesia and Galicia (later transformed into the Miners' Union of Austria). Chobot led the Třinec

Trinec

Třinec is a town in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Olza River, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The town has 37,405 inhabitants as of 2009, in 2001 17.7% of the population were Poles...

 branch of the Union of Metalworkers. Chobot was also active in the cooperative movement. He served as deputy chairman of the District Health Fund in Cieszyn 1910-1912. From 1912 he led the Ostrava branch of the Austrian consumers' cooperative movement. During the First World War, he led the Polish Workers Association 'Siła'.

Parliamentarian

Chobot was elected Member of Parliament in the 1929 Czechoslovak parliamentary election, representing the electoral coalition of the Polish minority parties and the Jewish Party

Jewish Party (Czechoslovakia)

The Jewish Party was a political party of the First Czechoslovak Republic. It was founded in 1919 by the Jewish National Council in Prague. It was the strongest Jewish political party in the interwar Czechoslovakia although many Jews were rather active in non-Jewish parties, be they Czech, German...

. Chobot was one of two Polish parliamentarians elected on behalf of this coalition, the other being Jan Buzek

Jan Buzek

Dr. Jan Jerzy Buzek was a Polish physician, activist and politician from the region of Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia....

 of the Polish People's Party

Polish People's Party (Czechoslovakia)

Polish People's Party was a political party in Czechoslovakia founded in autumn 1922, based amongst Polish middle-class Protestants. The chairman of the party was doctor Jan Buzek. Other prominent party activists were pastor Józef Berger and journalist Jarosław Waleczko. In the 1929 parliamentary...

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