Manfred Ackermann (politician)

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Simmering fire hall , grave of the Ackermann family

Manfred Ackermann (born November 1, 1898 in Nikolsburg , Moravia ; † June 16, 1991 in Vienna ) was an Austrian social democratic politician and union official in Austria and the USA .

Life

Manfred Ackermann, son of Wolf Ackermann and his wife Elisabeth, b. Leist, moved to Vienna with his parents and seven siblings soon after his birth and attended business school here. In 1916 he was during the First World War for the Imperial Army moved in, where it Max Kreisky, Bruno Kreisky , father of socialist familiar thought and made him to join the Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAP) moved. Felix Czeike also mentioned Ackermann's service in the People's Army Battalion Frey in his Historisches Lexikon Wien (1992) . The unit was led by Dr. Josef Frey.

Starting in 1918 with the organization of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) in Vienna's 20th district, Brigittenau (where Ackermann lived until 1938), he was able to organize an association with more than 1,000 members in just three years.

From 1923 Ackermann was head of the youth section of the Central Association of Commercial Employees in Austria (today GPA-DJP ), which he was able to build into one of the strongest and most powerful youth groups, and editor of the union newspapers “Employee Newspaper” and “Praktikant”. Ackermann was also one of the co-founders of the Socialist Young Front, a forerunner organization of the young generation (JG) of the SPÖ .

In 1933 he was nominated as a candidate for the National Council, but this was eliminated by the Federal Government of Dollfuss I and Dollfuss II in March 1933. In 1934 he took part in the February fights , which the Social Democrats described as a civil war, and after the SDAP was immediately banned, he secretly became a founding member of the Revolutionary Socialists and their first chairman, but was arrested in March 1934 and held in the Wöllersdorf detention camp until the summer of 1935 . After his release, Ackermann continued to work "illegally", which led to his re-imprisonment from November 1937 to March 1938.

Due to Schuschnigg's general amnesty in March 1938, Ackermann was able to flee abroad after Austria was " annexed " to the German Reich in 1938; as a Jew he would have been subject to additional repression. Via Italy and Switzerland he came to Brussels, where on April 1 and 2, 1938, he took part in the establishment of the Austrian Socialists' Representation Abroad (AVOES) and was then active on its executive committee. Later living in Paris, Ackermann was imprisoned in 1939 by the French in the internment camps of Colombes and Montargis .

In 1940 he managed to escape to the USA via Spain and Lisbon in September, for which he had received an entry visa through the intervention of the Jewish workers' committee. He arrived in New York on September 12, 1940. There he worked from 1941 as a laborer in the clothing industry (machine sewing) and was also active in the AVOES and the Austrian Labor Committee (ALC). Through his function as works council, he came to the union of the textile workers (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, ACW) where he was given control and educational tasks. He was also a founding member of the American Friends of Austrian Labor.

After retiring in 1964, he returned to Austria, gave lectures, was one of the initiators of the youth contact committee in the Association of Socialist Freedom Fighters and worked as a tireless educator for the people and adults until his death.

Manfred Ackermann was married to Paula Popp. His urn was buried in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department ML, Group 49, Number 1).

Awards

Information at the Manfred-Ackermann-Hof in Vienna

Fonts

  • Talk about Otto Bauer . Extended version of the speech given on May 6, 1969 at the friendship meeting of socialist freedom fighters and victims of fascism . Verlag Bund Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism, Vienna 1969.
  • Talk about Victor Adler . Held on November 11, 1968 at the General Assembly of the Federation of Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism . Verlag Bund Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism, Vienna 1969.
  • Julius Braunthal . A life dedicated to socialism. Speech given at the memorial service for Julius Braunthal on May 26, 1972 in the House of Encounters in Vienna-Döbling . Verlag Bund Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism, Vienna 1972.
  • Max Adler - educator for socialist thinking. From the speech on the 30th anniversary of Max Adler's death, given on June 27, 1967 . Verlag Bund Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism, Vienna 1967.
  • Education for human consciousness . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-203-51065-0 .

literature

  • Manfred Ackermann on his 80th birthday on November 1st, 1978 . Edited by the Union of Private Employees. Publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna 1978.
  • Peter Lhotzky (Ed.): Manfred Ackermann on the 100th birthday . Publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna 1998.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 9.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 5.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Ackermann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volume 1, p. 9, keyword Manfred Ackermann
  2. ^ Vienna History Wiki, keyword Volkswehr
  3. ↑ Brigittenauer Gemeindebau becomes Manfred-Ackermann-Hof In: Rathauskorrespondenz dated November 4, 2008 (Ackermann and his family lived in this community building until they fled in 1938)
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolsburg
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1991
Place of death Vienna