Franz Haider (politician, 1907)

Franz Haider (born September 11, 1907 in Linz ; † March 15, 1968 ibid) was an Upper Austrian politician ( KPÖ ) and newspaper editor. In 1945 he was Deputy Governor in the Upper Austrian provincial government .

education and profession

Haider attended a community school after primary school and then worked for a short time as a farm worker. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship at Elektrobau AG in Linz and was employed there until his dismissal in 1925. He made his way through as a construction worker and head railroad worker and found a job in 1927 as an employee of the municipal gas works in Linz. In 1934 he was released due to his involvement in the February fighting . He graduated from high school in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 and worked between 1939 and 1941 as an employee of the EBG . After the Second World War he was editor of the party organ of the Communist Party of Upper Austria New Time from 1948 to 1955 .

Politics and functions

Haider was active early on with the Kinderfreunde and was involved with the youth trade union, the workers', gymnastics and sports clubs and the social democratic party. He joined the banned Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) in 1933 and was elected to the Upper Austrian Communist Party at the first illegal state conference. He was arrested because of his participation in the uprising of the Schutzbund in 1934 and was again imprisoned between autumn 1934 and March 1935. After his release from prison, Haider went to Vienna and Prague and then attended a secondary school in Moscow between 1936 and 1938. He was then deployed in the Budweis area and was arrested in Prague in March 1939. After being transferred to Linz, he remained in custody until September 1939. He was arrested again in 1941 and by a People's Court to 13 years in prison convicted. His wife also received 15 years in prison as part of this process.

Haider was liberated from Garsten prison in 1945 and in June 1945 took over the role of provincial chairman of the Communist Party of Upper Austria, which he held until his death. From April 20, 1946, he was also a member of the Central Committee of the KPÖ and worked between October 26, 1945 and December 13, 1945 as regional councilor (responsible for housing and settlement as well as general welfare) and deputy governor in the von State government Gleißner III appointed by the US occupation power . Based on an article in the “Neue Zeit”, Haider was arrested in the summer of 1946 and sentenced to two months in prison. From 1950 to 1953 Haider was a member of the Mühlviertel civil administration, responsible for food and social welfare. From 1955 to 1968 he was a member of the Linz municipal council.

literature

• Harry Slapnicka: Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945. Linz 1989, p. 90 f.
• Haider, Franz , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 265

Web links

• Biography of Franz Haider on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .