Alma Motzko

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Alma Motzko (born June 1, 1887 in Kierling , Lower Austria ; † November 22, 1968 in Vienna ; also Alma Motzko-Seitz ) was an Austrian historian and politician ( CSP / VF ) and a city councilor in Vienna from 1920 to 1934.

Life

Alma Seitz attended a German-language high school in Prague as a privateist . She studied history, geography and philosophy at the University of Vienna and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. On September 21, 1920, she married the structural engineer Ludwig Motzko, an official in the building department of the City of Vienna .

As the general secretary of the Catholic women's organization for Lower Austria, she was active in the socio-political and creative field and became president of the Catholic women's organization for the Archdiocese of Vienna and vice-president of the Imperial Organization of Catholic Women in Austria. In April 1918, she was also in the Ministry Seidler of Viktor Mataja , the first social affairs minister in Europe, as a consultant for women's work in the end of 1917, founded kk Ministry of Social Welfare appointed.

At the beginning of November 1918, the Ministry in German Austria, last headed for a few days by Ignaz Seipel , was replaced by the State Office for Social Welfare under the Social Democrat Ferdinand Hanusch .

In December 1918 Motzko was sent by the Christian Social Party to the then provisional Vienna City Council , to which she was an elected mandate from the municipal council election in May 1919 until 1934.

In addition, she was a representative of her party from May 1919 on the city ​​council , the executive committee of the local council, and from June 1920 on the city ​​senate . She was in the city ​​council or city senate Reumann and in the city senates Seitz I to Seitz III until the abolition of the democratic city government by the dictatorial federal government Dollfuss II on February 12, 1934, the only female city councilor in Vienna. However, due to the absolute majority of the Social Democrats, Motzko always remained without its own department.

Even if she was basically in the affirmative of the “corporate state” brought about by some of her party friends , she criticized the measures directed against women, such as the reintroduction of the marriage ban for civil servants and teachers, the reduction of budget funds for girls' high schools and the setbacks in equality for women. She also resisted the increasing influence of the official church on the Catholic women's organization. Instead of a democratic election, Cardinal Innitzer enforced the right to appoint functionaries for the Archdiocese of Vienna against their opposition . In 1935 she was therefore forced to resign as president. In 1937 she took over as head of the women's department of the unity fatherland front , which existed until Austria was " annexed " to National Socialist Germany in March 1938.

Any professional activity during the Nazi regime has not been determined. After its end, in 1945, she no longer took on a political function in the re-established Austria and worked as the Vienna regional manager of the social welfare organization .

Alma Motzko was buried on November 28, 1968 in the Ober-St.-Veiter Friedhof in Vienna; the grave was now listed as an honorary grave (group J, row 10, no. 14). Her husband Ludwig Motzko, who died at the age of 68, was buried in this grave in 1949, who appeared in Lehmann in 1942 as a retired technical central inspector .

The building erected after 1945 in Vienna 1. , Schwedenplatz 3–4, in which the Hotel Capricorno is located today , was named by the client after her Dr.-Alma-Motzko-Seitz-Hof . (Alma Motzko was a member of the city council that decided on the name Schwedenplatz in 1919. )

Fonts

  • P. Heinrich Giese. A picture of life. According to his friends' notes . St. Gabriel, Mödling near Vienna 1955.
  • Klara Fietz, a gifted woman . St. Gabriel, Mödling near Vienna 1955.
  • Images of women from Austria. A collection of 12 essays . Obelisk, Velden aW / Vienna 1955.
  • Johanna White. A picture of life . Edited by Association of Christian domestic helpers, Vienna 1957.
  • Woman's way to justice and validity . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1959.
  • About woman's personality . Gerold, Vienna 1962.
  • Life, World and God . With a foreword by Pia Maria Plechl. Self-published by the Vienna Catholic Academy, Vienna 1972.

literature

  • Fritz Planer (Hrsg.): The yearbook of the Viennese society. Biographical contributions to contemporary Viennese history. Planner, Vienna 1929, ZDB -ID 89077-7 .
  • Pia Maria Plechl : Alma Motzko . In: Christian Democracy. Writings of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute. Quarterly journal for contemporary history, social, cultural and economic history 2, 1984, ISSN  0254-4334 , pp. 231-234.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 6: supplementary volume . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00741-0 , p. 138.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lehmann, 1942 edition, Volume 1, p. 789, p. 893 of the digital representation

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personal data
SURNAME Motzko, Alma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Motzko-Seitz, Alma (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian historian and politician (CSP / VF) and city councilor in Vienna (1920–1934)
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Kierling , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1968
Place of death Vienna