{{Infobox officeholder | name = Emanuel Chobot | image = Emanuel Chobot PIC 1-Z-322.jpg | image_size = | caption = Emanuel Chobot | office = Member of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia | term_start = 1929 | term_end = 1935 | predecessor = | successor = | constituency = | majority = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|1|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = Orłowa, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|6|7|1881|1|1|df=yes}} | death_place = Ostrava, Nazi Germany | resting_place = | party = Polish Socialist Workers Party | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations --> | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Trade unionist | cabinet = | committees = | signature = | footnotes = | blank1 = | data1 = | blank2 = | data2 = }}
'''Emanuel Chobot''' ({{IPA|pl|ɛmaˈnu.ɛl ˈxɔbɔt}}; 1 January 1881 – 7 June 1944) was a Polish trade union activist and politician. He was the chairman of the Polish Socialist Workers Party, the social democratic party active amongst the Polish minority in Czechoslovakia. He was also the Director-General of the Consumers Association 'Gec' in Moravská Ostrava.<ref name="col"/><ref name="who">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dreyblatt.de/whoswho/BioFileC.HTML |title=Chobot, Emanuel |access-date=2010-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516002321/http://www.dreyblatt.de/whoswho/BioFileC.HTML |archive-date=2011-05-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chobot was the son of Józef Chobot (a coal miner by profession) and Barbara Uher. He graduated from primary school in Orłowa and worked as a coal miner in Łazy and (1895–1898) and Orłowa (1898–1907).<ref name="ssb">''[http://m3net3.kei.pl/cgi-bin/2/makwww.exe?BM=01&IM=01&WI=CHOBOT%7FEMANUEL%7F1881%7F1944&NU=01&DD=1 Elektroniczny Słownik Biograficzny Śląska Cieszyńskiego - CHOBOT EMANUEL]''{{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110820101234/http://m3net3.kei.pl/cgi-bin/2/makwww.exe?BM=01&IM=01&WI=CHOBOT%7FEMANUEL%7F1881%7F1944&NU=01&DD=1|date=2011-08-20}}</ref> He was married to Franziska Onderek. He lived at Nádražní 96, Moravská Ostrava.<ref name="who"/>
==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 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 in 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'.<ref name="ssb"/>
==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. Chobot was one of two Polish parliamentarians elected on behalf of this coalition, the other being Jan Buzek of the Polish People's Party.<ref name="col">Collegium Carolinum (Munich, Germany), and Karl Bosl. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=YYQhjysTFMwC Die erste Tschechoslowakische Republik als multinationaler Parteienstaat: Vorträge d. Tagungen d. Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee vom 24.-27. November 1977 u. vom 20.-23. April 1978]''. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1979. pp. 229–230</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chobot, Emanuel}} Category:1881 births Category:1944 deaths Category:People from Orlová Category:People from Austrian Silesia Category:Polish people from Trans-Olza Category:Polish Socialist Workers Party politicians Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1929–1935) Category:Members of the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International Category:Polish cooperative organizers Category:Polish coal miners