Adele Obermayr

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Adele Obermayr (born: Adelheid Husch ; born March 10, 1894 in Schärding , Upper Austria , † May 19, 1972 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Adele Obermayr came to Tyrol from Upper Austria at a young age, where she completed an apprenticeship as a laboratory assistant in a pharmacy in Sankt Johann in Tirol . In 1915 she took over the management of a pharmacy in Kitzbühel . In 1920 she married and had a daughter.

In 1918 she was elected to the council of Kitzbühel for the Social Democratic Workers' Party , to which she was to belong until 1919. In 1921, at a time when Mühlau was still an independent municipality, Obermayr was also elected to the municipal council here; she remained a councilor until 1924.

In 1924 she entered the Tyrolean state parliament as a member of her party , to which she belonged for ten years until the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934. As a politician, Adele Obermayr campaigned for the interests of women, campaigned for the education of girls, against celibacy of teachers and also made sure that a women's advice center was set up in Innsbruck.

During the Nazi era , Obermayr was active in a resistance group. She made her apartment in Innsbruck available to a group of socialists and communists with ties to Robert Uhrig for secret meetings. She was arrested on May 30, 1942 and spent the last years of the war, from 1943 to 1945, as a prisoner in the Ravensbrück concentration camp . Medical experiments were carried out on her in the concentration camp and she survived only by luck and the support of a comrade.

In 1945, shortly after her return to Austria, Obermayr was re-elected as a SPÖ member of the Tyrolean state parliament. She remained so for eight years, until 1953. In the same year she was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . As a Federal Councilor, she was active again for eight years, from November 24, 1953 to November 7, 1961.

Today the Adele-Obermayr-Straße in Innsbruck bears her name.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adele Obermayr. In: Austrians in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Obermayr, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Husch, Adelheid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Schärding , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1972
Place of death Innsbruck , Tyrol