Arnold Riese

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Arnold Riese (born October 15, 1871 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † January 20, 1912 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian pioneer of social democracy .

Life and meaning

Grave of Arnold Riese, Klagenfurt-Annabichl

Arnold Riese, who came from the Austrian-Silesian town of Teschen , worked in Vienna as a progressive elementary school teacher who “wanted to teach freely”, so that the Christian-social mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, as chairman of the district school council, was the “provisional sub-teacher” at the same time as the later one Minister of Education and school reformer Otto Gloeckel and three other apparently unsuitable “provisional sub-teachers” removed from school on September 14, 1897, a fate that also almost met Karl Seitz .

Riese then went to Carinthia, where he took over the editing of the weekly social democratic newspaper “Volkswille - Organ of the Working People of Carinthia” , published from 1900 to 1905 , in which he examined cases of social injustice with particular care and, like the Viennese employees, fought for Sunday rest. For a short time he worked again as a teacher at a community school , but then, together with Florian Gröger , devoted himself entirely to building up the party organization of the Social Democratic Party, whose party leadership was based in Villach until 1900.

Arnold Riese was the intellectual among the early Carinthian socialists. As its first state secretary, he also took over the Carinthian editorial office of the Vienna “Workers' Will”, and ultimately the policy of the SPÖ can still be traced back to him in the second half of the 20th century: it endeavored to be a party of all working people in the country , a party in which the Slovenian-speaking worker should also find more home than elsewhere and which was also able to offer him more of a home than the clerical-national Slovenian representatives were prepared to offer. In the struggle between the German nationalists and the clerical Slovenes, the Carinthian Social Democrats saw their chance for a majority in the workforce of all languages ​​in the country, but one could not lose the following that felt German, which is why, for example, Rieses “Volkswille” fully endorsed the “Free Voices” if this German national newspaper emphasized the completely German character of urban Klagenfurt.

Since a large number of Italian workers, mostly woodworkers and bricklayers, were staying in Carinthia during those years, Riese already spoke at the social democratic national conference in August 1902 that the party would only be able to achieve successes with the help of the Slovenian and Italian workers therefore special agitation is required in the latter groups. On May 1, 1905, he was the first social democrat to move into the Klagenfurt municipal council, where he defended a number of social demands, including those for a public bath, in a very spirited manner. The public bath, which was actually realized later in St. Ruprecht, became unusable again due to the effects of the war. In 1907 his party, of which he was the country representative, put him up as a candidate for the Reichsrat in Vienna. Despite prominent opponents, he was elected as a member of parliament for the Crown Land of Carinthia and was re-elected in 1911, but only six months later he died completely unexpectedly after an appendix operation. His successor in the Reichsrat was his like-minded comrade Florian Gröger , the former Silesian weaver and factory worker, to whom Arnold Riese, while still a Viennese teacher, had recommended Carinthia as a place of work for union development work and who would later become the first socialist governor of Carinthia.

In the former city of St. Ruprecht near Klagenfurt, which has since been incorporated into Klagenfurt, a large social housing building was named after the respected politician Arnold-Riese-Hof , based on Viennese models . In Klagenfurt a street in the north of the city was named after him, but in 1930 it lost its full name and has been called Arnoldstrasse ever since. The German writer Uwe Johnson, however, interprets this somewhat differently in his “ Journey to Klagenfurt ”: “ According to the imperial German curriculum, the children also had to learn a Klagenfurt that they had never known: Arnold Riese-Strasse was then Arnoldstrasse ... ” On the Klagenfurt Arnold Riese still has a grave of honor or again a grave of honor in the central cemetery in Annabichl .

literature

  • Hermann Theodor Schneider: The streets and squares of Klagenfurt , published by Landeshauptstadt Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt o. J.
  • Alfred Magaziner : The pioneers: from the history of the labor movement . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-203-50926-6 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Janko Pleterski, Valentin Sima, Franci Zwitter: Slovenian or German ?: National processes of differentiation in Carinthia (1848–1914) . Drava, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 978-3-85435-210-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Norbert Leser: Work and Reverberation: Great Figures of Austrian Socialism . Verlag der Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, 1964, Vienna 1964 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Vinzenz Jobst, Alfred Wurzer: The employees in Carinthia: Sketches for their history . Union of Private Employees, Regional Organization Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1992 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Ludwig Brügel : History of the Austrian Social Democracy . Verlag Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1925

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Theodor Schneider: The streets and squares of Klagenfurt , published by Landeshauptstadt Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt undated, p. 15
  2. ↑ a b Janko Pleterski: Slovenian or German ?: National Differentiation Processes in Carinthia (1848-1914) . Drava, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 978-3-85435-210-5 , pp. 435 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Alfred Magaziner: The pioneers: from the history of the labor movement . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-203-50926-6 , pp. 58 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ a b Association for the History of the Labor Movement, Austria (ed.): Archive: Bulletin of the Association for the History of the Labor Movement . Volumes 5-7. Vienna 1961, p. 206 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Ernst Papanek: The Austrian school reform, its bases, principles, and development: the twenty years between the two World Wars . Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 1978, ISBN 0-313-20292-3 , pp. 37 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Johannes J. Braakenburg (Ed.): Karl Kraus Early Writings: Explanations . tape 3 . Suhrkamp, ​​1988, ISBN 978-3-518-40141-5 , p. 133 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Vinzenz Jobst, Alfred Wurzer: The employees in Carinthia: sketches for their history . Union of Private Employees, LÖ Kärnten, Klagenfurt 1992, p. 10 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian: biographical sketches: 20th century . tape 6 . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 978-3-85391-128-0 , p. 88 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ^ Stefan Karner, Andreas Moritsch, Peter Fritz: Carinthia and the national question . Heyn, Klagenfurt 2005, ISBN 978-3-7084-0015-0 , p. 175 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  10. ^ Herbert Stejskal: Carinthia: History and culture in pictures and documents from prehistoric times to the present . Carinthia University Press, Klagenfurt 1985, ISBN 978-3-85378-220-0 , p. 277 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  11. ↑ Janko Pleterski et al. a., p. 454
  12. ↑ Janko Pleterski et al. a., p. 432
  13. ^ Klagenfurt (Austria): Klagenfurt: an overview from prehistoric times to the present . Klagenfurt 1950, p. 135 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  14. ^ Republic of Austria - Parliament: Who is who? Arnold Riese : Member of the House of Representatives, Association of Social Democratic Representatives (Social Democrats) July 17, 1907 - February 5, 1909; March 10, 1909 - July 11, 1909; October 20, 1909 - March 20, 1911; July 17, 1911 - January 20, 1912
  15. ^ Alfred Magaziner: The pioneers: from the history of the labor movement . Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 978-3-203-50926-6 , pp. 56 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  16. ^ Hermann Theodor Schneider: The streets and squares of Klagenfurt , published by Landeshauptstadt Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt undated, p. 15f.
  17. ↑ Uwe Johnson : A trip to Klagenfurt . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1974, p. 43 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  18. ^ Arnold Riese - Graves of Honor - Cemeteries - Living in Klagenfurt - Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ( Memento from July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved July 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Giant, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1912
Place of death Klagenfurt