Ferdinand Berger (resistance fighter)

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Ferdinand Berger (born November 27, 1917 in Graz , † April 25, 2004 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian resistance fighter and high police officer.

Life

Ferdinand Berger was a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth in Graz, joined the Social Democratic Party in 1932 and took part in the February fights in Gösting near Graz in 1934. Between 1934 and 1936 he was imprisoned several times. In 1937 he went to Spain, where he joined the International Brigades and took part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. From February 1939 to May 1940 he was interned in the French camps Gurs and Saint-Cyprien , from February 1941 to June 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp and until the liberation in the Flossenbürg concentration camp as a political prisoner. After the Second World War, Ferdinand Berger studied law at the University of Vienna and joined the police service: from 1945 to 1947 he headed the information service in the state police, after which he worked in the detective department with the rank of police commissioner. In 1953 he was appointed head of the Brigittenau District Police Department. After the conclusion of the State Treaty in 1955, he was transferred to the Inner City Commissariat. In 1970 Ferdinand Berger was appointed police advisor. From 1934 to 1968 he was a member of the KPÖ. In 1975 Ferdinand Berger retired and from then on worked as a volunteer for the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance . He was also chairman of the Dachau camp community.

Ferdinand Berger Prize

On the 100th birthday of Ferdinand Berger, the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance announced that it would be awarding the prize against right-wing extremism donated by Ernst Berger and René Berger, son and grandson of Ferdinand Berger, annually from 2018 . The first winners in 2018 were the journalist Christa Zöchling and the data forensic scientist Uwe Sailer . In 2019 the Michael Köhlmeier Prize was awarded.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DÖW: Ferdinand Berger Prize .
  2. ↑ orf.at: Axel Corti Prize for Karim El Gawhary . Article dated April 10, 2018, accessed April 10, 2018.
  3. ↑ orf.at: DÖW honors Köhlmeier for Hofburg speech . Article dated April 8, 2019, accessed April 8, 2019.
  4. ^ Ferdinand Berger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2004
Place of death Vienna