Anna Demuth

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Anna Demuth , officially since 1983 Dr. Anna Artmann-Demuth , (born January 28, 1921 in Raabs an der Thaya , Lower Austria ; † July 15, 2020 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From 1969 to 1975 she was a member of the Austrian Federal Council delegated by the Lower Austria state parliament and from 1975 to 1982 by the Vienna state parliament .

The young years

Anna Demuth was born in Pommersdorf, a cadastral community of Raabs an der Thaya. After elementary school she attended a humanistic grammar school , from which she also graduated . Then she began studying German and art history at the University of Vienna . During the Second World War she worked as a secretary from 1939 to 1945 , which is why she was only able to obtain a doctorate in 1948 .

Political career

In 1949 she became a secretary for the daily newspaper Weltpresse, which was dominated by social democrats . She later worked as a journalist for Die Welt am Montag . She became involved in the SPÖ at an early age and was elected regional women secretary and the regional executive committee of her party for Lower Austria in 1960. The later Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was politically anchored in the SPÖ Lower Austria and became its state party chairman in 1966, and shortly afterwards also federal party chairman of the SPÖ. He handed over to intellectual humility the women's political agendas of the party, for which she was to be responsible for the following 16 years also during the federal government of Kreisky I, II , III and IV .

In 1971 she was elected Federal Women's Secretary of the SPÖ. Together with her party friend Hertha Firnberg , she developed the federal women's programs for the Kreisky government until 1982. Both federal politicians initiated numerous reforms and drafted related bills to improve the position of women in the Austrian legal system. They also got involved in the question of preparing and creating their own state secretariat for women's issues, which was set up in 1979 and then, at the special request of the Viennese SPÖ women , was filled by their regional women’s secretary , Johanna Dohnal .

In November 1969, Demuth was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in parliament . She then belonged to the regional chamber, with a short break of nine days, in November 1975 for 14 years until June 1982. In the first half of 1982, shortly before she left federal politics, she acted as Deputy President of the Federal Council . In November 1975, Josef Hesoun succeeded her as a member of the Federal Council sent by the Lower Austrian state parliament . After Fritz Prechtl waived his mandate, Demuth was sent by the Vienna State Parliament .

During the reigns of Kreisky I to IV, Demuth was also a member of the Federal Party Presidium and the Federal Party Executive Committee of the SPÖ. With Kreisky and Firnberg's announced withdrawal from politics, Demuth, the intellectual grande dame of the Austrian reform of women's policy, also resigned from her political office.

Private

Anna Demuth was married to the police officer Anton Artmann, which is why she actually had the double name Artmann-Demuth. After the untimely death of her husband, she moved to a retirement home in the Vienna district of Döbling at the end of 2008 .

The funeral ceremonies for Artmann-Demuth took place in the small circle she had wished for. On the occasion of the funeral at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof , her long-time companion, Federal Minister ret. D. Karl Blecha her political life: “Anni was a very special light figure and played an incredible role for women. She was a wonderful personality who hid her own merits, always put her light under a bushel and in turn placed value on it and made sure that the others stand in the light. At least for the women in the party and for the betterment of women in the Austrian legal system, she achieved just as much as Johanna Dohnal later . "

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Parliament : Dr. Anna Demuth (since March 10, 1983: Dr. Anna Artmann-Demuth) from August 6, 2020. Available in the archive of the Austrian Parliament
  2. ↑ Schnabl / Kocevar / Schmidt: In deep mourning for Anna Artmann-Demuth. In: press news. August 4, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Shorthand protocol: 346th meeting of the Federal Council of the Republic of Austria. In: parlament.gv.at. November 27, 1975, accessed August 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ SPÖ women / Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek, SPÖ federal women chairwoman . Entry from August 5, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020.

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personal data
SURNAME Humility, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Artmann-Demuth, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Raabs an der Thaya , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 2020
Place of death Vienna