Andreas Vukovich

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Andreas Vukovich (born November 25, 1871 in Baumgarten , Burgenland , † December 15, 1957 ) was an Austrian cooperative member, manager and politician of the SPÖ .

Life

Andreas Vukovich was born the son of a carpenter. After graduating from school, he trained as a metalworker and moved to Mödling . As early as the 1890s he was active in various workers' organizations. He was involved in founding the workers' consumer association in Mödling. He was elected chairman of this cooperative in 1901 after he had restructured it and placed it on a solid foundation. From 1906 Andreas Vukovich was represented on the supervisory board of the Großeinkaufsgesellschaftischer Österreichischer Consumvereine (GöC).

When in 1907 the situation of the Gloggnitz consumer cooperative became economically threatening, Vukovich was brought to Gloggnitz for this redevelopment task. In Gloggnitz he met Karl Renner and was able to win him over to work in the workers' cooperative movement. He was also a member of the Gloggnitz municipal council for many years and, together with Karl Renner, founded the building cooperative in Gloggnitz, the first building cooperative in Austria to build workers' apartments. When in 1912/13 the great First Lower Austrian Workers Consuming Association got into trouble, it was again Vukovich who managed to solve the problems. With the beginning of World War I , cooperation between the four Viennese workers' consumer associations became necessary in order to improve the supply of the population. As the person in charge of the largest workers' consumer association in Vienna, Andreas Vukovich organized the Vereinigung zur Konsumgenossenschaft Wien (KGW) in 1920. During the merger to form KGW, the "Gesum", a consumer cooperative founded by the employees and workers of the municipality of Vienna , was also established. accepted. After Andreas Vukovich had succeeded in integrating the five Viennese "food magazines for railway workers" into the KGW in the early 1930s, he was elected honorary president of the GöC. In February 1934, when the Austrofascists came to power, Vukovich played a decisive role in securing the continued existence of the Austrian consumer cooperatives. In 1941, when the cooperative movement was dissolved by the National Socialists , Andreas Vukovich resigned from his active work. He spent his retirement in his adopted home of Gloggnitz.

His son Dr. Andreas Vukovich (1895–1975) was one of the most important leaders in the Austrian consumer cooperative movement.

literature

  • 30 years of the Central Association of Austrian Consumers, Vienna 1932.
  • History of the consumer cooperative bulk purchasing in Austria, Vienna 1931

Individual evidence

  1. Florian Jagschitz / Siegfried Rom: Selected leaders of the Austrian consumer cooperatives in: Johann Brazda / Holger Blisse (eds.): Contributions to critical cooperative research, Research Association for Cooperatives, Vienna 2018, pp. 301–303, ISBN 978-3-9502989-5 -6 .