Albrecht Konecny

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Albrecht Karl Konecny (born September 20, 1942 in Vienna ; † August 25, 2017 ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Konecny ​​was a member of the National Council , a member of the European Parliament and from 1987 to 2010 a member of the Federal Council .

education and profession

Konecny ​​attended elementary school from 1948 to 1952 and then from 1952 the grammar school. After graduation in 1960 studied Konecny two years Law and was a member of the Association of Socialist Students of Austria (VSStÖ). He was editor of the Socialist Correspondence from 1962 to 1966 and served his military service between 1967 and 1968. Between 1966 and 1970, Konecny was press officer of the Club of Socialist deputies . He then worked at the Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES), of which he became General Secretary .

Albrecht Konecny ​​published the Neue Arbeiter Zeitung from 1979 to 1986 , of which he was also the managing director during this time. From 1986 to 2000 he was the managing director of the future publishing company, which, with him as editor-in-chief, brought out the future . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Participation in the street battles surrounding the Borodajkewycz affair

In the course of the protests surrounding the Borodajkewycz affair , left-wing demonstrators drove a bus into a gathering of Borodajkewycz sympathizers on March 31, 1965 . Some of the left-wing protesters then attacked the right-wing counter-demonstrators with flags and wooden slats converted into spears. In 2015 it became known that Albrecht Konecny ​​was among these attackers. In the further course of these protests there was also one death and thus the first political death in the second republic. The right-wing extremist Günther Kümel killed the communist and concentration camp survivor Ernst Kirchweger who stormed towards him . Among other things, a false statement, which Konecny ​​reported in 2015, also contributed to the conviction of Kümels.

Austrian Freethinkers Association

During his membership in the Association of Socialist Middle School Students (VSM), Albrecht Konecny ​​joined the Freethinkers Association of Austria (FDBÖ). There was a split there in the early 1970s. From 1971 to 1975 Konecny ​​was very active in the "Institute for Scientific Worldview" that was created as a chairman and employee of the magazine "Geist und Gesellschaft". In the years of legal dispute between the two freethinker organizations, Konecny ​​was appointed by the SPÖ as a curator. In the reunited FDBÖ - Association for Scientific Weltanschauung, Albrecht Konecny ​​was chairman from 1976 to 1978 and a further two years on the federal board.

politics

Konecny ​​was a member of the National Council between June 1, 1983 and December 16, 1986. He has been a member of the Bundesrat since January 29, 1987 and was also a member of the European Parliament between July 11, 1995 and November 11, 1996. In 1996 Konecny ​​became chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary group, previously he had already been deputy club chairman of the social democratic parliamentary group. Furthermore, Konecny ​​was a substitute member of the Austrian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between 1990 and 1995 and a member of the Austria Convention between 2003 and 2005 . Since 2007 Konecny ​​has also been a member of the Austrian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Albrecht Konecny ​​had been a member of the SPÖ's federal party executive since 1974. Between 1974 and 1980 he was chairman of the Federal Young Generation Working Group and since 1980 he has been the deputy district chairman of the SPÖ Währing .

On October 24, 2010, Konecny ​​resigned from the Federal Council.

Attack on Konecny ​​in 2012

On January 27, 2012, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust , Konecny ​​took part in a protest rally against the Vienna Corporation Ball, which is organized by color-bearing and majority- beating university corporations and the FPÖ . There were also riots during this demonstration. On the way home, the 69-year-old was knocked down and seriously injured by a person wearing a brass knuckle in the city center. Konecny ​​later spoke of a right-wing radical: "He had a cap with runic symbols on". Several FPÖ politicians, including party leader Heinz-Christian Strache , compared the protests against their ball with the persecution of the Jews during the “ Reichskristallnacht ”. As a result, Strache repeatedly doubted that Konecny ​​had been beaten up by right-wing extremists. Rather, the 69-year-old Konecny ​​was "crushed by left-wing violent demonstrators brought from the FRG", who had mistakenly mistaken him for a fraternity and a ball-goer. A month after the ball, the FPÖ state party secretary in Vienna, Hans-Jörg Jenewein, confirmed this view in a press release by the FPÖ. He relied on a corresponding statement by Interior Minister Mikl-Leitner . However, this had only made it clear in the Federal Council that none of the ball-goers had been arrested. The perpetrator was not identified until 2015.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albrecht Konecny on the website of the Austrian Parliament
  2. ^ SPÖ mourns Albrecht Konecny on ORF on August 26, 2017
  3. ^ Grave site Albrecht Karl Konecny , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 12, Group Extension B, Row 13, No. 3.
  4. ↑ Rafael Kropiunigg: An Austrian affair . Czernin Verlag , Vienna 2015, p. 68-71 .
  5. ↑ Franz Sertl: The Freidfenkerbewegung in Austria in the twentieth century. A contribution to the history of the development of free-spirited cultural organizations . Facultas, Vienna 1995.
  6. ^ WKR-Ball: 21 arrests at demo In: wien.orf.at. January 28, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ http://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/chronik/Konecny-Nazi-Ueberfall-weiter-ungeklaert/55548297
  8. ↑ Strache on WKR-Ball: "We are the new Jews". derStandard.at, January 29, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Katharina Schmidt: "It wasn't like the Chancellor - Heinz-Christian Strache caused a stir with his posting about the Konecny ​​attack". www.wienerzeitung.at, February 9, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Hans-Jörg Jenewein: FP-Jenewein: Ex-SPÖ-Mandatar in truth victim of the red boot troops. FPÖ Vienna, February 29, 2012, accessed on March 25, 2012 .
  11. ↑ Stenographic minutes: 804th meeting of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria. (PDF; 1.4 MB) Parliamentary Directorate of the Republic of Austria, February 2, 2012, p. 132 , accessed on March 25, 2012 .
  12. ↑ 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 Konecny, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konecny, Albrecht Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2017