Agnes Prandler

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Agnes Prandler (born January 22, 1927 in Croatian Geresdorf, municipality of Nikitsch ; † April 14, 2013 in Oberpullendorf ) was an Austrian employee and politician ( SPÖ ). Prandler was single and from 1977 to 1987 a member of the Burgenland Landtag .

Life

Prandler was born as the daughter of the unskilled worker Johann Prandler from Croatian Geresdorf and grew up speaking Croatian. She first attended elementary school in Croatian Geresdorf. She then moved to the secondary school in Lutzmannsburg and completed the two-year commercial school in Vienna, which she graduated in 1947. After that she worked for a few weeks in a Vienna tax office.

politics

From February 1, 1948, Prandler was employed in the SPÖ District Secretariat in Oberpullendorf and on May 1, 1967, she became District Secretary of the SPÖ Oberpullendorf. In 1982 she retired and in 1984 took over the chairmanship of the SPÖ pensioners' association in the Oberpullendorf district as chairwoman. Prandler represented the SPÖ during the XIII. and XIV. legislative period in the Burgenland Landtag. After being sworn in on October 27, 1977, she resigned from the Burgenland State Parliament on June 15, 1987 after renouncing her state parliament mandate.

In 1983, the Croatian Culture and Documentation Center in Burgenland was founded under the direction of Prandler in Šuševo / Nebersdorf. The center is dedicated to researching the cultural and linguistic assets of the Burgenland Croats.

literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. The Burgenland Language Minorities 1945-1999 (PDF; 289 kB) by Gerhard Baumgartner