Benno Straucher
Jewish politician from Bukovina · Austria · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1854 to 1940 · aged 86
Benno or Beno (Binyamin) Straucher was a Bukovina-born Austro-Hungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania. A Jewish nationalist influenced by classical liberalism and Zionism, he first held political offices in Czernowitz city.
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Engraving by the Austrian Jewish artist Ephraim Moses Lilien, released as propaganda for the 5th World Zionist Congress (1901). The caption reads: May our eyes behold your return in mercy to Zion
Members of the Jewish National Party in the Austrian Parliament (1907-1911), from left to right: J. Schalit, Adolf Stand, Benno Straucher, Heinrich Gabel, Arthur Mahler, M. Braude
Ethnic map of Bukovina in 1930 (Jews in yellow)About this person
After 1897, he was one of the noted Jewish representatives in the Austrian Parliament's upper chamber (Abgeordnetenhaus). Straucher, who was instrumental in creating the reformist Progressive Peasants' Fellowship, maintained his Abgeordnetenhaus seat throughout the remainder of Austria-Hungary's existence. From 1906, he led the Jewish National People's Party locally and helped establish the pan-Austrian Jewish National Party. He vied for political direction over the Bukovina Jews with several other groups, most notably the Zionist People's Council Party of Mayer Ebner, who became his personal rival.
