Franz Honner

Franz Honner at the Fifth Party Congress of the SED (1958)

Simmering fire hall - urn grave by Franz Honner

Franz Honner (born September 4, 1893 in Heinrichsöd , Bohemia ; † February 10, 1964 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( KPÖ ) and State Secretary for the Interior.

Life

Franz Honner was an electrician and miner.

From 1927 Honner was in the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ). In 1936 he was one of the defendants in the socialist trial . As a result, he was interned in the Wöllersdorf detention center , but fled to Moscow . He fought in the Spanish Civil War in 1937 and 1938 before returning to the Soviet capital.

In the Soviet Union, Honner trained Austrian battalions of the Yugoslav partisans during the last two years of the Second World War .

From April 1945 to December 1945 Honner was State Secretary for the Interior in the provisional government under Federal Chancellor Karl Renner , an office that corresponded to the later Minister of the Interior . From December 1945 to 1959 he was a member of the Austrian National Council . From 1946 to 1964 Honner was again a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the KPÖ, where he mainly dealt with issues relating to the trade unions .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Honner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Honner on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Franz Honner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Parliamentary debates with Franz Honner in the online archive of the Austrian Media Library