Anton Weiguny

Anton Weiguny (before 1908)

Anton Weiguny (born March 29, 1851 in Urfahr , Upper Austria (now the city of Linz ), † December 14, 1914 in Linz) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ), tailor and publisher . He was a councilor in Linz and a member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Weiguny was born the son of the weaver Paul Weiguny. He attended elementary school in Urfahr until 1863 and began an apprenticeship as a tailor in Linz that same year. He then worked as a tailor's assistant and worked in Traiskirchen between 1870 and 1871. In 1871 he returned to Linz. He was initially involved in the Catholic journeymen's association and in 1874 became a member of the committee of the Linz Workers' Education Association and from 1875 acted as its deputy chairman. From 1876 until the official dissolution in 1877 he was chairman of the association. However, Weiguny co-founded the successor association of the General Workers' Association for Linz and the surrounding area in 1879 and became its chairman. The association dissolved itself in 1884 and was re-established in 1888. In addition, Weiguny was co-founder in 1873 and, from 1876, chairman of the professional association of clothing-making assistants for Linz and the surrounding area, which was also officially dissolved in 1877. Because of his political activities he was arrested several times by the police.

Between 1897 and 1914 Weiguny was co-founder and editor of the social democratic party newspaper Truth! (later Tagblatt) , where he has also been a partner in the Gutenberg party printing company since it was founded. He also built up the party organization in Upper Austria. He was politically active as a local councilor from 1905 to 1914 and ran for the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the constituency of Austria ob der Enns 3 (Linz), where he won the first ballot with 56.5%. In the 1911 Reichsrat election, he was also able to defend his mandate with 51.9% in the first ballot. In addition, he ran in the constituencies 10 , 11 , 12 and 14 in one or both elections as a counting candidate . Weiguny belonged during the XI. and XII. Legislative period from June 17, 1907 until his death in the House of Representatives. He was a member of the Club of German Social Democrats and from 1897 to 1914 chairman of the Upper Austrian state party organization.

He was of the Roman Catholic faith and from 1907 without a denomination. He fell ill in September 1914 and finally died three months later in Linz. He was buried in the Linz city cemetery.

family

Weiguny married Rosina Hölzl in 1875 and had a son and a daughter. After the death of his wife in 1903, he married Maria Hackl in 1907.

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 2: M-Z. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 1381.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 1907.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911.
• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1861 to 1918. Upper Austrian state publisher, Linz 1983, ISBN 3-85214-381-0 , p. 215 f.
• Anton Weiguny (obituary). In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 15, 1914, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
• SPÖ district organization Linz-Stadt (ed.): The movement is alive: 100 years of social democracy in Linz. Linz 1988, p. 25 ff ( limited preview in the Google book search)

Web links

• Biography of Anton Weiguny on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weiguny's funeral service. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 17, 1914, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).