Albin Hirsch

Georg Albin Hirsch (born December 12, 1847 in Altsattel in the Bohemian Forest , † September 11, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian master carpenter and politician ( CS ).

Life

Albin Hirsch was the son of a customs officer from the Bohemian Forest . He attended elementary schools in Eisenstein and Kuschwarda and came to Vienna as a carpenter's apprentice to his uncle's. After completing his apprenticeship, he first worked for various construction companies, then in the Simmeringer wagon factory , where he was promoted to foreman. In 1875, Hirsch started his own business as a master carpenter in the village of Simmering, which was not yet part of Vienna .

In what is now the 11th Viennese district of Simmering , he was first district councilor in 1891, then from 1895 to 1918 Christian social district chairman . From 1909 to 1915 he represented the Christian Social Party (CS) as a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament . On his initiative, the nameless cemetery was rebuilt in 1900 . Hirsch was chairman of the founding committee of the Simmering Voluntary Rescue Society, which was founded in 1905 on the model of the Vienna Voluntary Rescue Society. He worked as vice-president of the church building association of the Neusimmeringen parish church , which was inaugurated in 1910.

Albin Hirsch was honored in 1914 with the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order and in 1916 with the War Cross for Civil Merit, Second Class. He died in 1918 at the age of 70 and was buried in the Simmering cemetery . The Albin-Hirsch-Platz in Simmering was named after him in 1949.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Our district leaders. XI. Georg Albin Hirsch. In:  Deutsches Volksblatt , February 16, 1908, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
2. ^ Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861 - 1921. (PDF) Lower Austrian Parliament, accessed on March 13, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Werner T. Bauer : Wiener Friedhofsführer. Exact description of all burial sites together with a history of the Viennese burial system . Falter-Verlag, Vienna 1988, p. 210 .
4. ↑ Simmering Voluntary Rescue Society. In:  The new district messenger for the political district of Bruck an der Leitha , July 30, 1905, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
5. ^ The emperor at the inauguration of the Simmering parish church. In:  Neue Freie Presse , December 7, 1910, p. 36 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Official part. In:  Wiener Zeitung , February 13, 1914, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
7. ^ Awards for civil merits. In:  Deutsches Volksblatt , December 30, 1916, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
8. ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Albin-Hirsch-Platz. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 41 ( digitized version ).