Adolf Coppel

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Adolf Coppel (born October 26, 1924 in Vienna ; † September 27, 1988 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Like his brother Hans Coppel, Adolf Coppel was the son of an employee of the municipality of Vienna and grew up in Ottakring . Coppel learned the trade of machinist . According to his own account, during the time of National Socialism, he was an Oberscharführer in the Hitler Youth and from 1942 a candidate for the NSDAP . In the machine factory where he worked, he became a works council member in 1946 and works council chairman in 1949. He left the factory in 1959 and worked in the works department of the Vienna Chamber of Labor until 1975 .

After he became deputy chairman and chairman of the Vienna provincial management of the metal-mining-energy union in 1965 , he took over the vice-presidency and in 1976 chaired the Vienna Chamber of Labor and the Austrian Chamber of Labor.

In 1984 Adolf Coppel was elected President of the Main Association of Austrian Social Insurance Institutions , which he chaired until 1988.

From 1969 to 1976 he was a member of the Vienna City Council and member of the Vienna State Parliament and from 1976 to 1979 a member of the Federal Council.

He was a member of the National Council from 1979 to 1984 and from December 17, 1986 to November 20, 1987.

His grave is at the Ottakringer Friedhof . The Adolf-Coppel-Bildungszentrum of the Chamber of Labor in Vienna and in 1998 the Adolf-Coppel-Gasse in Ottakring were named after him.

Awards

literature

  • Walter Göhring: Adolf Coppel. Pragmatist with vision. A political biography . ÖGB-Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7035-0801-9 ( series of publications by the Institute for Research into the History of Trade Unions and Chambers of Labor 10).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Instead of marriage row - politics at the breakfast table. In: DiePresse.com. October 29, 2010, accessed January 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 243, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  3. ^ Adolf Coppel. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (ed.); Retrieved June 2, 2009
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Coppel, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1988
Place of death Vienna