Austrian politician (1877–1937)
Heinrich Mataja (14 March 1877 – 23 January 1937) was an Austrian lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Party.
Life and political career.
Mataja was from 1913 to 1918 a member of the Imperial Council (Austria). From 21 October 1918, he was a member of the from this emerged "Provisorische Nationalversammlung" for the Republic of German-Austria, of 4 March 1919, a member of the Constituent National Assembly and from 10 November 1920 – 1930 member of the National Council (Austria).
During this period he was still from 30 October 1918 to 15 March 1919 in the government Renner I State Minister of the Interior and from 20 November 1924 to 14 January 1926 Austrian foreign minister.
He supported the Christian Federal State of Austria formed in 1934 by Engelbert Dollfuss. He was from 1896 to 1900 a member of the fraternity "Wiener Akademische Burschenschaft Olympia."
He was brought with the signs of a stroke to hospital on 22 January 1937. He died there the next day.
On 27 January 1937 he was buried at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof in an honorary grave of the town Vienna.
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