Anneliese Albrecht

Anneliese Albrecht (born January 29, 1921 in Vienna ; † October 20, 2018 ) was an Austrian journalist and politician .

Life

Anneliese Albrecht, whose grandfather was one of the first social democratic councilors in Vienna, graduated from a commercial academy after attending compulsory schools and obtained her Matura in 1939 . In the same year, Albrecht, then 18, married a young soldier in the German Wehrmacht . The two had two sons. In 1945 Anneliese Albrecht's husband died in a Soviet captivity.

Albrecht, who worked as a journalist for the Socialist Publishing House from 1946, was also a member of the SPÖ in 1945 immediately after the end of the war . So she sat on the board of the Vienna SPÖ and acted as chairwoman of the Viennese Socialist Women. Subsequently, she was also deputy party leader of the SPÖ in Vienna-Josefstadt .

In 1954 she worked as an editor at Das Kleine Blatt , a party newspaper, and in 1962 switched to the social democratic women's magazine Die Frau , of which she was editor-in-chief between 1967 and 1979.

In November 1971 Albrecht entered the National Council as a member of the SPÖ . In 1979 she also became the deputy chairwoman of the SPÖ parliamentary group. In November 1979, Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky appointed Albrecht State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Trade, Commerce and Industry, today's Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth . After resigning from the National Council in October 1981, she ended her career as a politician in May 1983 when she also resigned from the office of State Secretary.

Anneliese Albrecht died on October 20, 2018 at the age of 97.

Awards

• 1979: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Anneliese Albrecht on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Archive recordings with Anneliese Albrecht in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek (speeches, interviews, radio reports)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anneliese Albrecht, biography. Parliament of the Republic of Austria, accessed on January 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Query response: written parliamentary question regarding medals and decorations to former domestic and foreign members of the government and other personalities. (pdf, 6.6 MB) Federal Chancellery , April 23, 2012, p. 523 , accessed on November 1, 2018 .