Ferdinand friend

Ferdinand Freund (born August 25, 1893 in Vienna ; † August 5, 1960 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and an executive city councilor in Vienna.

Freund studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1919. Until 1928 he was in general and technical training in the hospital of the city of Vienna and as a specialist in the Wilhelminenspital. Freund was Moritz Oppenheim's assistant at the Wilhelminenspital and worked between 1928 and 1939 as a specialist in dermatology and venereology and as an outpatient director of the workers' health insurance fund in Vienna . During the Second World War, Freund was employed as a department head and hospital commander from 1939 to 1945, headed hospital departments and was most recently hospital commander.

After the end of the Second World War, Freund took over the position of primary doctor for dermatology in the Rudolf Foundation. He was elected to the state parliament and local council in the course of the state and local council elections in 1945 and sworn in on November 25, 1945. He was a member of the committee until October 9, 1949. Between February 14, 1946 and December 5, 1949, Freund also belonged to the state government of Körner II and took over the office of the city councilor for welfare. In addition, Freund was chairman of the Association of Socialist Doctors in Austria.

As a city council, Freund led the rebuilding of the welfare system and was particularly committed to youth welfare. His goals included the expansion of school welfare and kindergartens, the expansion of the women's social academy, the construction of large education and recreation homes for young people, as well as the expansion of apprenticeship support and school meals.

After his death, Ferdinand Freund was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 10, Row 2, No. 59).

literature

• Magistrate of the City of Vienna (Ed.): The City Council of the City of Vienna, the Vienna State Parliament, the Vienna City Senate, the Vienna State Government 1945 - 1985 . Magistrate Directorate, Vienna 1986.
• Robert Teichl (arr.): Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries. Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1951.

Web links

• wien.gv.at Vienna in retrospect. Vienna 1946: reports from February 1946