Entrepreneurs in Communal and Country Politics of the Austrian Silesia in the second half of the 19th Century

Suffrage both active and passive was limited only to a smaller part of the population of Habsburg Empire - liberal constitution both from February and December in 1867 preferred in the access to the civil rights those who brought greater values to the state both materially and spiritually. Austrian Silesia was interwoven with an industrial network. In the West, it was particularly textile factories (flax, cotton, and wool enterprises), leather industry, also stone industry, engineering and chemical industry. In the East, black coal mining complexes, iron works, and chemistry plant and textile factories again were spread. General examples of engagement of the entrepreneurs in the communal and land politics of Austrian Silesia may be divided into three spheres of activity: effecting on the communal level, effecting on the land level, and the role at establishing of political associations and parties.