Engelbert Rückl

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Engelbert Rückl (born September 3, 1888 in Voitsberg , Styria , † March 25, 1946 in Bad Gleichenberg , Styria) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Consisting of a Glasererfamilie originating Rückl graduated after attending the compulsory schools, the Teachers' Training College in Graz . As a result, he worked as a teacher at schools in Gschnaidt , Hitzendorf and Kainbach near Graz , before he found employment at the German State School in Trieste in 1908 . Here he was given the title of professor .

After the First World War , in which he was also actively deployed, Rückl - since the late 1910s also a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP) - became involved in building social democracy in Styria; He also campaigned for the care of soldiers injured in the war. In 1919 he was elected to the Graz municipal council, which was followed in 1920 by being appointed head of the city school council. In 1924 he became vice mayor of the state capital, as well as city councilor for finance.

During the Austrian Civil War , in February 1934, Rückl was interned as commander of the Republican Protection Association in the Wöllersdorf detention camp in the municipality of Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl . What became of him during the Nazi era is not known.

After the war , Rückl was appointed mayor of Graz by the Soviet occupation zone in May 1945; However, his term of office, which he took up on May 8, ended after only one week, on May 15, 1945, when he had to hand over the office to Eduard Speck . In December of the same year he was elected to the National Council as an SP member , but his term of office also ended after a relatively short time. It lasted exactly 16 days, from December 19, 1945 to January 4, 1946.

Rückl then withdrew into private life due to health reasons; he died two months after leaving the National Council at the age of 57.

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SURNAME Rückl, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Voitsberg , Styria
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1946
Place of death Bad Gleichenberg , Styria