Anton Hueber (politician, 1861)

Bust of Anton Huebers by Mario Petrucci (1953) in the Hueber-Hof

Memorial plaque in the Hueber-Hof

Anton Hueber (born September 26, 1861 in Taus , Bohemia , † July 9, 1935 in Vienna ) was a social democratic union leader and politician in Austria-Hungary and the First Republic .

Life

The wood turner Anton Hueber was a founding member of the national union commission in Cisleithanien (1893) and acted as its secretary from 1895. In the course of the centralization of the movement, he developed into the most important trade union representative in the Habsburg state. After the extensive collapse and recovery of the trade unions in 1914–1918, Hueber took on various public offices ( constituent assembly , National Council and Federal Council ) in the First Republic - in addition to his trade union functions . In 1928 he finally became the first chairman of the socialist trade union movement, which was now combined to form the Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Anton Hueber was the guardian of Anna Boschek, who later became a member of the National Council . An urban residential complex at Quellenstrasse 24B Hueber-Hof was named after him, in whose courtyard there is a monument bust of Huebers by Mario Petrucci from 1953. In addition, a memorial plaque in the courtyard entrance commemorates the trade unionist. In 2015, an honorary grave for Anton Hueber was unveiled at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof, which was designed by apprentice stonemasons as part of a competition.

meaning

In the four decades in which Hueber took the central position in the cisleithan or Austrian trade union movement, their rise and breakthrough to the modern organizational form of the workers (degree of organization from 1906 approx. 20%), the division of the organization by one against the " Viennese centralism "directed Prague opposition of Czech trade unionists, the subordination of the trade unions to the war policy, their recovery to mass power in Austrian society (membership 1921 and 1922 more than 1,000,000 = 1/5 of the entire population), as well as the crisis and finally the Suppression of the movement in 1934.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.oegb.at - Anton Hueber's grave of honor unveiled. Retrieved on March 28, 2018 (Austrian German). 
2. ^ See: Julius Deutsch : History of the Austrian trade union movement. The socialist trade unions from their beginnings to the present. Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung Ignaz Brand, Vienna 1908, p. 317.
3. ↑ See: Walter Göhring, Brigitte Pellar: Adaptation and Resistance. Chambers of labor and trade unions in the Austrian corporate state (= series of publications by the Institute for Research into the History of Trade Unions and Chambers of Labor. No. 13). ÖGB-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7035-0856-6 , p. 14.

literature

• Heinz Rappel: Anton Hueber (1861-1935). Life and work. Vienna 1975, (Vienna, University, dissertation, 1975).

Web links

Commons : Anton Hueber monument, Vienna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Anton Hueber on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Anton Hueber. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)