Robert Stricker

Robert Stricker (16 August 1879 – 28 October 1944) was a Jewish Austrian politician.

Born in Brno (present-day Czech Republic), Stricker graduated from high school at the technical college.

He entered the service of the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, where he was active in management.

He was elected at the 1919 Austrian Constitutional Assembly election as the only representative of the Jewish National Party, founded in 1907 under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which never again succeeded in sending a representative to the Austrian Parliament.On May 30, 1919, Robert Stricker married the widow Paulina (Paula) Kohn (born 1888) in Vienna and adopted her son Wilhelm (Bill) from her first marriage.

[1] In addition, Stricker was a Zionist activist, and for many years was a board member of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien.