Anton Matourek

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Anton Matourek (born April 30 or May 31, 1905 in Vienna ; † September 26, 1978 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP / SPÖ ) and machine fitter .

life and career

Anton Matourek was born on April 30 or May 31, 1905 in Vienna and joined the social democratic movement at the age of 14. Before his 30th birthday, the trained machine fitter became secretary of the Republican Protection Association of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in what was then Vienna's 14th district of Rudolfsheim . After the February fighting in 1934 , he was arrested several times for his illegal activities and, among other things, was interned in the Wöllersdorf detention camp for a few months from December 1936 to May 1937 . After the end of the Second World War, Matourek took part in the rebuilding of the party from 1945 and was then active as a councilor from 1948 to 1953 and as a district councilor in what is now the 15th Viennese district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . He then largely withdrew from political life and was awarded the Golden Sign of Merit of the State of Vienna by a resolution of the Vienna Provincial Government on April 20, 1977 . Matourek died on September 26, 1978 at the age of 73 in his hometown of Vienna.

In 1982, the urban residential complex with 36 apartments built between 1977 and 1979 under the architect Leopold Fellner at Rustengasse 9 in the 15th district was named Anton-Matourek-Hof in honor of the Viennese local politician . A Fiaker house previously stood on the site, which was acquired from an estate in 1928 and rebuilt by the architect Heinrich Vana . After that, the previous house served as the Volkshaus of the Rudolfsheim district organization before it was confiscated in 1934 and then used by the Home Guard and soon after by the Fatherland Front . After the Gestapo had given the house to a private person, the SPÖ-Rudolfsheim took over the house again in 1945 and had to share it with the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) for some time on the orders of the Soviet occupying forces . After the condition of the building got worse and worse over the years, the district secretariat moved to Schwendergasse 41 in 1976 and the house was demolished and replaced by the community building.

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Individual evidence

  1. Anton-Matourek-Hof on wienerwohnen.at , accessed on May 16, 2017
  2. Anton Matourek-Hof in Vienna History Wiki of the city of Vienna