Bruno Marek

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Bruno Marek with the figure skaters Gabriele Seyfert , GDR , and Wolfgang Schwarz , Austria, 1965

Bruno Marek (born January 23, 1900 in Vienna ; † January 29, 1991 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and 1965-1970 mayor of Vienna.

Bruno Marek was born in the middle-class Mariahilf , the 6th district, as the son of a master tailor who had his shop on Mariahilfer Straße . The commercial clerk joined the Social Democratic Labor Party in 1918 and was a functionary of the Mariahilf district organization from 1924. Since 1924 he was employed by Wiener Messe AG in the Red Vienna and editor of the social democratic 'Zeitschrift für Jagd-, Fischerei- und Aquarienkunde'.

After February 12, 1934 , Marek was temporarily imprisoned in the corporate state dictatorship and lost his post at Messe AG.

In 1945 he was appointed fair director by the again social democratic city administration and remained so until his election as mayor in 1965. He became district chairman of the SPÖ Mariahilf and member of the Vienna municipal council and state parliament . In 1949 he was elected 1st President of the Vienna State Parliament.

In 1965, the previous SPÖ mayor of Vienna, Franz Jonas , was elected Federal President. The cautious ascetic was followed from June 10, 1965 to December 17, 1970 by the jovial, very bourgeois-looking and therefore very popular grandfather type Bruno Marek as mayor, who pulled the strings alongside the city councilor for finance, Felix Slavik, as a strong man of the party. It had not previously happened to the SPÖ that one of its mayors would have been proclaimed the “best dressed man of Vienna” by a medium. Marek was also the first social democratic mayor of Vienna who - as one would say today - came from management. The mayor of Vienna has been governor since November 1920 .

Marek was considered a preserver and sustainer. During his term of office, the decision was made to build the Vienna subway , which had been postponed for a long time by the SPÖ (construction began in 1969) and the construction of the ski facility on the Hohe-Wand-Wiese , the decision to build the UNO-City and the start of construction on the New Danube with the Danube Island . With creative media policy - journalists were provided with community apartments or PR positions - it was possible to reduce the often one-sided criticism of bourgeois media of “red Vienna”. At the beginning of 1970 Bruno Marek was elected honorary citizen of the city of Vienna by the municipal council.

Marek was one of the initiators of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) founded in 1963 , of which he was a pensioner from 1971-1984.

In 1967 he received the Anton-Bruckner-Ring .

Vienna Central Cemetery: Honorary grave of Bruno Marek

Bruno Marek resigned in 1970 for reasons of age and was replaced by the previous Finance Councilor Felix Slavik (designated November 2, 1970, elected December 21, 1970, taking office December 23, 1970). Marek, who was born in Mariahilf, lived in this district throughout his life.

After the short term of office of his successor, he lived to see the two mayors Leopold Gratz (elected 1973) and Helmut Zilk (elected 1984) and was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery in 1991 (group 14 C, number 54 A).

In 1994 a residential complex completed in 1988 on Gumpendorfer Strasse in Mariahilf was named after him Bruno-Marek-Hof . In 2009, the planned Bruno-Marek-Allee was named after him in the Leopoldstadt (2nd district) in the northern railway district, which is currently under development .

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  1. ↑ dasrotewien.at. Retrieved December 25, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Franz Jonas Mayor of Vienna
1965 - 1970 		Felix Slavik
personal data
SURNAME Marek, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), Mayor of Vienna, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1991
Place of death Vienna