Ernst Lakenbacher

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Ernst Lakenbacher , rarely also Ernst Lackenbacher (born October 20, 1891 in Wirowititz , Austria-Hungary , † April 18, 1967 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist , author , trade unionist and Chamber of Labor official .

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Ernst Lakenbacher was born on October 20, 1891 as the son of the Jewish freight forwarder Sigmund Lakenbacher (* 1861; †?) And his wife Charlotte (née Steiner) in the city of Wirowititz (now Virovitica in Croatia). A year later his brother Robert was born. After he had passed his Matura in 1909 , Lakenbacher worked as an insurance employee from 1910 and at the same time was a member of the SDAP and the Association of Insurance Employees Austria in Vienna . In the years 1912 to 1913 he did his military service; 1914, his brother Robert was killed in the First World War . Also from 1912 Lakenbacher appeared as a member of the main board of the Association of Insurance Employees Austria under Alfred Broczyner and published under the pseudonym Ernst Bacher in the social democratic monthly Der Kampf . After a career as an officer from 1914 to 1916, he subsequently returned to the insurance industry and from 1916 to 1919 he was the full-time secretary of the Association of Insurance Employees Austria . In 1919 he took over the management of the permanent delegation of the free trade union white-collar organization to the trade union commission . From 1921 to 1927 he worked as a secretary at the Federation of Industrial Employees in Austria and was also the editor of the association newspaper.

In 1928 he moved to the Vienna Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees and was employed there until 1934 as the secretary of the salaried section. At the same time he held the position of managing director of Section XIV (private employees) in the Federation of Free Trade Unions in Austria . In addition, he was a board member of the Industrial District Commission Vienna , as well as the pension institution for salaried employees and was significantly involved in the drafting of trade union social legislation initiatives. Following the February fighting in 1934 , Lakenbacher was imprisoned from March to August 1934 and after his release mainly worked as a freelance journalist. He occasionally carried out his journalistic activities for the free trade unions in Austria, which have now become illegal . Due to the threat of further imprisonment, Lakenbacher emigrated to Great Britain in June 1938 before he came to Buenos Aires in January 1939 .

There he initially worked as an unskilled worker and later returned to his traditional profession as an insurance agent. From 1939 he was a member of the inner circle of the group Das Andere Deutschland ( DAD for short ) around August Siemsen and continued his journalistic activities when he worked for the magazine of the same name, for which he was responsible editor of the Austrian magazine from December 1940 to 1945 Partly acted, wrote. In addition to Theodor Brüll , Lakenbacher was a co-founder and key representative of the group of Austrian socialists in Argentina . This stood in sharp contrast to the Comité Austríaco , which included Ferdinand Erb-Rudtorfer and Gustav Glück , son of the art historian and museum director of the same name . In a letter written to Oscar Pollak on March 16, 1940 , Lakenbacher said "that we are not participating in any combination involving the circles that are to blame for the February events" . Although the polemics, which had become more acute over the years, appeared in the Argentinisches Tageblatt on August 30, 1942, the only call for “active participation in the anti-fascist world struggle ” written together with Lakenbacher and the Comité .

A few years after the end of the Second World War , Lakenbacher returned to his homeland at the request of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees in Vienna, where he was again a member of the now SPÖ and the still young Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB). From 1948 he headed the press service of the Chamber of Labor and was also part of the editorial team for the magazine Arbeit und Wirtschaft , founded in the 1920s . Labor law and notifications under social law from the Vienna Chamber of Labor. With the appointment as deputy chamber director and taking over the management of the social insurance and education department, as well as the social science study library of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, Lakenbacher started his last commute from 1955. In 1958, at the age of 66 or 67, he retired, but continued to work as a volunteer editor at Mitteilungen , the magazine of Wiener Städtische Wechselseiten Versicherungsanstalt . One year after his retirement, Lakenbacher was awarded the professional title of government councilor .

Lakenbacher died on April 18, 1967 at the age of 75 in Vienna. In the year of his death, the publication The Austrian Employees' Unions was published by the publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions . History and present. Lakenbacher was married twice; he divorced his first wife, Doctor Pauline Kraus (* 1905; †?), in 1938; In 1956 he married the goldsmith and jewelry dealer Pauline Olga Elischer (née Godina; * 1901; †?).

Works (selection)

Contributions

  • In: The inventor protection of employees in the patent law amendment 1925 , Federation of Industrial Employees Austria, Professional Group of Engineers, Vienna 1926
  • In: A guide through health insurance under the new Salaried Employees Insurance Act , Working Group for the Establishment of the Insurance Fund for Industrial and Other Salaried Employees, Vienna 1927
  • In: Social law communications of the Vienna Chamber of Labor, Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees for Vienna , Ueberreuter in Commission, Vienna
  • Socialism instead of practicalism , In: FORVM , April 1966, pp. 148–149

literature

  • Werner Röder (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933–1945 , Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 1980, ISBN 978-3-598-11420-5 , pp.
  • Margarete Grandner: Cooperative trade union policy in the war economy: Austria's free trade unions in the First World War. , Ed. By Brigitte Mazohl in the series Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria , Volume 82, Böhlau Verlag , Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1992, ISBN 978-3-205-05411-5 , pp. 91, 212, 369–374
  • Edith Blaschitz: Emigrants, emigrants, exiles - the Austrian colony in Buenos Aires. From the beginning to the end of the Second World War, with special consideration of the years 1918 - 1945. Diploma thesis for obtaining the master’s degree in philosophy, submitted to the humanities faculty of the University of Vienna by Edith Blaschitz, Vienna 1992
  • Edith Blaschitz: Argentina. In: Alisa Douer, Ursula Seeber. Collaboration: Edith Blaschitz (Ed.): How far is Vienna. Latin America as an exile for Austrian writers and artists. Picus, Vienna 1995, pp. 21-26.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 770.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Glück in the archive for the history of sociology in Austria, accessed on January 31, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lakenbacher, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lackenbacher, Ernst; Bacher, Ernst (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist, author, trade unionist and Chamber of Labor official
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wirowititz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1967
Place of death Vienna