Adalbert Riedl

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Adalbert Riedl (born July 28, 1898 in Kobersdorf , Burgenland ; † January 5, 1978 in Eisenstadt , Burgenland) was an Austrian teacher , museum director in the Landesmuseum Burgenland and briefly a politician of the CSP .

Life

After attending elementary school in Kobersdorf, Adalbert Riedl graduated from the teacher training institute in Győr, which is now Hungary . In 1916 he passed the Matura . After studying for four years, he began teaching as a primary school teacher in Weppersdorf-Tschurndorf in 1920 . In 1923 he switched to teaching at the elementary school in Markt Sankt Martin , where he worked until 1932. In the period from 1926 to 1932 he took on the role of chairman of the Catholic teachers' association.

politics

From 1932 he was first state party secretary of CSP Burgenland. In August 1932, Riedl was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . In May 1934 he moved as a member of the Bundestag . Here Riedl was involved in building the Fatherland Front . Riedl was responsible for recruiting new members for VF.

After the annexation of Austria , Riedl was ousted from all political functions. From 1938 to 1939 he was even interned as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp for a few months . In 1940 he found work as an assistant in the Burgenland State Museum. In 1945, after the end of the war, he took over its management on an interim basis until he was finally appointed museum director in 1950. In 1963 he retired . In addition to his work in the State Museum, he was commissioned by Eisenstadt mayor Franz Elek-Eiweck immediately after the war to take care of the establishment of the Red Cross in Burgenland, which previously belonged to Vienna and Lower Austria.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Burgenland Regional Association, accessed on April 13, 2017.
  2. Staff news . In:  Der Wiener Tag , January 1, 1937, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day