Dětství, mládí a učňovská léta Klementa Gottwalda: 1896-1914

• Authors: Marián Lóži

Title variants

EN

The childhood, youth and apprenticeship of Klement Gottwald: 1896-1914

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study reconstructs the youth of Klement Gottwald from his birth to the outbreak of the First World War. Gottwald was born on November 23, 1896 in Vyškov region in southern Moravia. His adolescence was fundamentally marked by the absence of material means and a low social origin. He spent the years 1896–1908 in the Vyškov region (Dědice, Vyškov, Heroltice), subsequently moved to Vienna and worked in a carpentry workshop. Gottwald subsisted in the environment of the social periphery, amongst artisans and peasants in Vyškov region and workers of the Czech minority in Vienna; he repeatedly had to cope with the status of an illegitimate child. In this period, there was no indication of his future great political career, although Gottwald already showed his marked intelligence and tenacity.

Keywords

EN

illegitimate son; family ties; Austria-Hungary; Moravia; Vienna; nationality question; social democracy

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 81-118
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marián Lóži

• Moderní dějiny, redakce, Historický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Prosecká 76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic