Ferdinand Gerdinitsch

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Ferdinand Gerdinitsch (born September 30, 1869 in Hornstein ; † July 25, 1926 in St. Pölten ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAPDÖ ) and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament .

Life

Ferdinand Gerdinitsch was born on September 30th, 1869 in Hornstein, then Hungarian and now Burgenland . In Wiener Neustadt he learned the carpentry trade . During his rolling through Germany and Austria-Hungary, he came to St. Poelten, where he settled in 1889 as a journeyman carpenter. In his limited free time, he devoted himself to building up a labor movement in St. Pölten. One of his first tasks was the distribution of the Volkstribüne , a party organ published by Franz Schuhmeier . In 1901 he began to work as a civil servant for the Lower Austrian regional health insurance fund.

In the following years he became chairman of the social democratic local organization. In this role he not only organized election campaigns for the Reichsrat and the municipal council , but also appeared as a speaker at many meetings. In the course of such events there were always fights. In Murstetten farmers are said to have attacked him with clubs, in Karlstetten he was thrown down a flight of stairs.

After the First World War , Gerdinitsch was first a local councilor and soon a councilor in St. Pölten. In 1919 he was elected a member of the joint state parliament of Lower Austria , which was the state parliament before the separation of Vienna. After Vienna was declared a federal state , he remained in the state parliament of Lower Austria . He was represented in the first legislative period of the Lower Austria state parliament until his death.

Gerdinitsch died on July 25, 1926 in St. Pölten.

Honors

  • Gerdinitschstrasse in St. Pölten (1927)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lower Austria Parliament on Ferdinand Gerdinitsch (PDF; 5 kB)
  2. ^ A b Manfred Wieninger : Tell St. Pöltner street names . Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7066-2208-4 .
  3. ^ Siegfried Nasko : Up out of dull dreams. Labor movement and social democracy in the St. Pölten area. SPÖ district organization, Vienna 1986, pages 415-458: Chapter biographical part ( Our district St. Pölten 7, ZDB -ID 2292151-5 ).
  4. ^ Wiener Zeitung of July 27, 1926, page 3. Can be found online at ANNO

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personal data
SURNAME Gerdinitsch, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAPDÖ) and member of the Lower Austrian state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Chert
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1926
Place of death St. Polten