Anton Weber (politician, 1878)
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Anton Weber (born November 5, 1878 in Kindberg , Styria , † December 28, 1950 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and an executive city councilor in Vienna. Weber was married.
After attending primary school, Weber learned the trade of mechanical engineering and worked as a blacksmith's journeyman in Kindberg. Weber worked in Krumau in Bohemia from 1910 and moved to Vienna in 1913, where he worked as a machine fitter and administrator of the Volksbote n in Floridsdorf. After completing his military service between 1915 and 1918, he was elected chairman of the SDAP Floridsdorf in 1918, and in December 1918 he moved to the provisional council; on May 4, 1919, he was sworn in in the elected local council. He was also a member of the Weiskirchner and Reumann city councilors from 1918 to 1920 . (Until May 31, 1920 there was a 30-member city council chaired by the mayor as the executive committee of the Vienna municipal council .) With the introduction of the executive councilors, Weber left the city senate.
Weber was March 4, 1919 to November 9, 1920 to a member of the Constituent National Assembly and until 16 January 1922 MP of 10 November 1920, the National Council ( I. legislative period ).
He then moved to the city senate as the official city councilor for social policy and housing (administrative group IV) after Julius Grünwald had left. Weber was sworn in on January 13, 1922 in the city senate. Weber subsequently belonged to the Seitz I , II and III city senates , where he always headed the housing department, whose name from 1927 was "Department for Housing and Housing (Administrative Group IV)". He was responsible for the expansion of the housing supply in "Red Vienna" during the interwar period (see municipal housing ). The settler movement, which he co-founded, represented a special concern for Weber.
After the February fighting was suppressed, Weber was interned in the Wöllersdorf detention camp in 1934 and subsequently ceased his political involvement. In 1945 the Soviet troops offered him the office of mayor, which Weber refused. However, he worked from April 1945 to November 8, 1947 as Vice Mayor and Executive City Councilor for the City Building Office (Administrative Group IV) in the City Senates Körner I and Körner II .
Weber initially organized the rubble clearance and the transport of food. In addition, he called a major survey for reconstruction, which culminated in the publication of 14 points for reconstruction. Weber also founded the Wiener Baubedarfsgesellschaft, which made machines and scaffolding available to construction companies on loan. Subsequently, he took care of the production of concrete roof tiles and precast concrete ceiling parts made from spun concrete. After 1946 he was involved in the organization of the building supplies company, in which he held a leading position until his death.
Weber was buried in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall in an honorary grave (Dept. ALI, No. 72).
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997
- Franz Patzer: The Vienna City Council 1918-1934. A contribution to the history of the City of Vienna and its parliament. Vienna 1961 (Wiener Schriften; Issue 15)
- Fritz Planer (Hrsg.): The yearbook of the Viennese society. Biographical contributions to contemporary Viennese history. Vienna 1929
Web links
- Anton Weber on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Anton Weber. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- Anton Weber: Election speech for the National Council election on November 9, 1930. In: Austria's word. Austrian Media Library, accessed on May 4, 2013 (voice recording after a short announcement).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (SPÖ), city councilor in Vienna, member of the National Council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kindberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1950 |
| Place of death | Vienna |