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Ernst Lachs (born January 2, 1904 in Mürzzuschlag ( Styria ), † 1980 in Vienna ) was an Austrian control office director in Vienna.

Life

Ernst Lachs studied - most likely in Graz , since he was chairman of the socialist students there - law and political science and received his doctorate on November 20, 1926. After completing the judicial year, he initially worked in a law firm and entered on April 20, 1929 as a legally qualified civil servant in the service of the City of Vienna.

First he was at the municipal district office for the 1st district, then in the municipal directorate and after the Austrian civil war in 1934 from the new city administration to the municipal district office for the 21st district. His continued union activity earned him several reprimands. In 1938, after the connection of Austria to the Third Reich, was the now with Minna Lachs , married officials from whom he had met in a socialist student group from his office.

Their son Thomas was born in July 1938, and two months later the family fled to Switzerland , where they stayed in Zurich for a long time . Here Ernst Lachs first worked in a metal factory, later at Pro Juventute and then in the library of the local Israelite religious community, from which the family also received financial support. In 1941 they sailed from Lisbon to New York on the emigrant ship “ Navemar ”, which made headlines because of the inhumane conditions prevailing there .

Here he worked first as an accountant and correspondent for an export company and then in the scientific department of a department store in New York. In 1943 Ernst Lachs acquired the academic degree of Master of Social Science (MSS) in the field of economics and statistics in evening classes at the New York “ New School for Social Research ” . Between 1943 and 1946 he worked in Washington, DC in the OSS as an economic analyst on questions of European and above all Austrian economic problems related to the Second World War. After the dissolution of the OSS, he was accepted into the service of the United States Department of State .

After the liberation of Austria, Ernst Lachs again reported to the municipality of Vienna, but was only able to do so in 1947 - after the establishment of a diplomatic mission for Austria in the USA, an application for re-entry to the Austrian Ministry of the Interior on August 14, 1946 and the start of civilian travel - return to Vienna with his family.

By a municipal council resolution of June 17, 1955, Ernst Lachs, who had meanwhile been promoted to senior senate councilor, was appointed as the successor to senior senate councilor Franz Leppa as director of the control office . In 1960 and 1965 he was confirmed in this position by the Vienna City Council for a further five years.

In addition to his professional activity, which he ended on June 17, 1970, Ernst Lachs was a permanent employee of the journal “ Arbeit und Wirtschaft ” of the Austrian Chamber of Labor. Here he was responsible for the “ International Economy ” section . He was also co-editor of the collection “ The Austrian Social Law ”.

After his death, Ernst Lachs was buried on October 16, 1980 in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall . His grave is one of the honorary dedicated or honorary custody grave sites of the City of Vienna.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.stadtrechnungshof.wien.at/zahlen_und_ffekten/pruefungswesen.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/historisch/1965/juni.html
  3. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
  4. ↑ http://www.wien.gv.at/rk/historisch/1959/dezember.html

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SURNAME Salmon, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Control Office Director in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Mürzzuschlag , Styria
DATE OF DEATH buried October 16, 1980
Place of death Vienna