Alfred Broczyner

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Alfred Broczyner (born April 20, 1878 in Vienna ; † 1945 ) was an Austrian insurance officer, trade unionist , and a member of the Viennese state parliament and councilor .

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Alfred Broczyner was born in Vienna on April 22, 1878; In 1901 he was one of the co-founders of the Vienna Insurance Employees Association and from 1906 acted as its chairman. In 1910 the member of the SDAP was also a co-founder of the Association of Insurance Employees Austria and was in office as its chairman until about 1934. Numerous other members found their way into politics under him; including Ernst Lakenbacher . From December 1918 to May 1919 he was a member of the provisional council of the city of Vienna . When Karl Leuthner was elected member of the Constituent National Assembly on February 16, 1919, Broczyner, who came from the 2nd constituency ("Inner West" → Mariahilf, Neubau and Josefstadt), was a member of his social democratic list. Only the first three members of this list made it into the Constituent National Assembly. Broczyner was listed in fifth place.

On May 4, 1919, he was one of 165 members who had been elected to the Vienna State Parliament and City Council. In this function he was active in the 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th electoral terms. At times he was the chairman of the finance committee of the municipality of Vienna, as well as the executive vice-president of the central savings bank of the municipality of Vienna . In 1922 he appears as director of the "Foncière" at Börsegasse 14 in the 1st district of Vienna. Following the February fighting in 1934 , Broczyner was arrested; around 1938 he is said to have been in the Wöllersdorf detention center . He later managed to escape and emigrate to Great Britain , where he was a member of the London office of the Austrian Socialists in London .

Broczyner, who was in his late 60s, died in 1945. In the last few years before his death he was in closer contact with Otto Harpner , a Viennese lawyer in exile in London, the son of the famous lawyer Gustav Harpner . He also maintained a lively correspondence with Robert Danneberg, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 .

literature

  • Werner Röder (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933–1945 , Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 1980, ISBN 978-3-598-11420-5 , p. 96

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee Voters' Meeting , accessed on February 3, 2019
  2. ↑ General Electoral Assembly , accessed on February 3, 2019
  3. ↑ Elect Karl Leuthner , accessed on February 3, 2019
  4. ↑ [1] , accessed on February 3, 2019
  5. ↑ Otto Harpner's Papers , accessed on February 3, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Broczyner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian insurance officer, trade unionist, as well as member of the Viennese state parliament and local council
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1945