Anton Ofenböck

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Anton Ofenböck (born August 27, 1874 in Wiener Neustadt ; † September 15, 1952 there ) was an Austrian politician.

Schools and professions

Anton Ofenböck was born at Lederergasse 4 in Wiener Neustadt, as the unmarried child of a waitress next to a grandmother as a laundress, so in a very poor relationship. Regarding the father Anton Reiter, there is a letter from him to the son, the baptismal register and the baptismal certificate of the parish Neukloster give no information. As a child he was earning extra income for the family as a cigarette and cigar boy in the Wiener Neustädter Brauhaus, which in turn led to a complaint from a teacher to the city school board, because such an activity can have immoral effects, which Ofenböck was punished for in the parish church ministerial .

Ofenböck attended elementary school from 1880, and from 1885 the citizen school. After school, Ofenböck began an apprenticeship as a model maker in Seidengasse 29 in Vienna with Johann Schreiber and worked part-time as a waiter in the Prater to finance his apprenticeship. By teaching the Lord and the woman masters there were many conflicts Ofenböck is three times of the apprenticeship uprooted , and achieved the success that the apprenticeship by one year was shorter.

Years of travel after his apprenticeship abroad were not approved by the state in 1891, he was only approved for Austria-Hungary so that he was available for the military. His waltz went to Trieste, there his plan was born to go abroad and he went to Italy and got to Genoa, then to Rome, and was then deported by the authorities to Austria-Hungary to Wiener Neustadt.

In 1892, Ofenböck worked as a carpenter in Pressbaum near Purkersdorf, then in Waidhofen an der Ybbs. Then he started traveling again, via Upper Bavaria, Vorarlberg, Tyrol, Meran, Milan, and on February 1, 1893 to France to Toulon, from there deported by ship to Trieste, where his friend Josef Gulik fell ill and was taken to a hospital in Gottschee and probably died there. Ofenböck, also ill, was in the hospital of the Merciful Brothers in Agram, where he also sometimes performed the services of a nurse.

Ofenböck worked for some time as a floor layer J. Kavuric-Jendris in Agram and moved to Vienna in May 1893 and then worked as a model carpenter at the Kaiser book printing machine factory in Landstrasse, and later at the Herda agricultural machine factory in Leopoldstadt. Having come into contact with the trade union there, Ofenböck went to Wiener Neustadt as a worker to organize workers there too. He worked in the locomotive factory, then in a foundry in Leobersdorf, then in a factory with Martinsöfen and rolling mill in Ternitz.

When a report could be assigned to him in equality , he was used there for the dirtiest work, and Ofenböck resigned himself. Now put on a so-called black list, Ofenböck could no longer find work. After working as a sewing machine salesman and insurance agent, Ofenböck learned typing and worked as a clerk at Emanuel Berstl, later as head of the office until 1903, and then worked at Stern until the end of April 1905.

Religion and family

Ofenböck married Barbara Völkerer on February 26, 1900 (November 14, 1871– May 4, 1951) in the Roman Catholic. Main parish of Wiener Neustadt. Although he was no longer a believer, he and his wife switched to the Protestant faith on September 11, 1906. In the 1930s, Ofenböck became a non-denominator. The marriage resulted in three sons and a daughter who died soon after birth. Anton Ofenböck (1900–1966), the eldest son, became an engineer, lived in Erlach near Wiener Neustadt, he took great care of the family during his father's imprisonment. Felix Ofenböck (1903–?) Was a librarian and draftsman, Karl Ofenböck (1908–?) Wanted to be a musician, neither of them returned from the Second World War.

politics

At the same time as Vienna, the Republic of Austria was proclaimed on November 12, 1918 in Wiener Neustadt on the main square in front of around 20,000 citizens by Mayor Viktor Praschek and Vice Mayors Ofenböck and Rudolf Beier . The speeches were given for the German National Mayor Praschek and City Councilor Franz Bauer, for the Christian Socials Karl Prokopp and for the Social Democrats Ofenböck and Josef Püchler. On November 29, 1918, Viktor Praschek resigned the mayor's office at the municipal council meeting and Ofenböck, editor of the journal Equality , was elected as his successor. Anton Ofenböck became a member of the inter-ministerial commission for the land acquisition of Burgenland . Anton Ofenböck became chairman of the constituency committee of the Wiener Neustadt constituency, the election for the provisional national assembly took place on February 16, 1919, where the Social Democratic Party received nine out of twelve seats. Of these, Karl Renner , Smitka and Tomschik had already been on the Imperial Council of the monarchy. The others were Danneberg , Paul Richter , Felix Stika , Paul Schlesinger , Eduard Schönfeld and Anton Ofenböck. Anton Ofenböck, however, gave up his mandate to the National Council (the constituent national assembly ) after the re-election as mayor of Wiener Neustadt on May 4, 1919 with 34 out of 50 seats for the Social Democrats in the municipal council, and after he had become a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag ( Joint Landtag , Landtag of Lower Austria-Land and the 1st legislative period ), from where Julia Rauscha moved up in the National Council. From 1921 to 1926 he was second president of the state parliament.

From December 1, 1920 to February 17, 1934 he was also a Federal Councilor ( 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th legislative period ). After the war he was again from December 19, 1945 to November 5, 1949 Federal Council (fifth legislative period ).

In 1920 he was able to open the forest school for the city's malnourished children, whereby the deputy mayor and engine driver Josef Püchler organized the necessary barracks and the development of the school with a field railway . With the councilor Marie Hautmann , a kindergarten, a crèche and in 1926 a kindergarten teacher training institute with public rights were started in the former aviation barracks in Wiener Neustadt .

When the Heimwehr and the Schutzbund marched up in Wiener Neustadt on October 7, 1928, Ofenböck advocated a ban on both marches and thus failed politically. On October 6 and 7, 1928, as mayor, he issued a ban on alcohol for the city.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Matricula Online - Wiener Neustadt-Neukloster, Baptismal Book, 1872–1878, page 164, entry no. 178, 5th line
  2. ↑ Werner Sulzgruber: Die Jewish community Wiener Neustadt Remember.at, accessed on December 15, 2014
  3. ^ The Presidents of the Landtag 1921-1938 . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ofenböck, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1952
Place of death Wiener Neustadt