Franz Koci

Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Franz Koci

Franz Koci (born December 26, 1899 in Stockerau , † July 18, 1966 in Kalkgruben ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Franz Koci was originally a locksmith (machine worker) by profession. He enlisted in the military at the age of 17.

After the First World War he was involved in the trade union movement and in the social democratic party in Vienna-Favoriten . After February 1934 he joined the Revolutionary Socialists ; He was therefore arrested in 1935 and sentenced to three months in police custody and one year in prison. In 1937 he was also in custody for a month for political reasons. Most recently he was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp in the course of a wave of arrests by the National Socialists in 1939 and released again in 1940.

After the Second World War , Koci was a member of the Vienna City Council from 1945 to 1964 , in 1949 as Third President of the State Parliament , 1951–54 as City Councilor for Housing, Settlement and Allotment Gardening, 1954–64 as City Councilor for public institutions.

Franz Koci died in a car accident in Burgenland. He was buried in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 C, number 28).

Awards and honors (extract)

Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1960)
Viktor Adler Plaque (1960)
Citizen of the City of Vienna (July 31, 1964)
Posthumous : Franz-Koci-Strasse in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung Ost , Vienna-Favoriten (1968)

literature

Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 3: Ha - La . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 .

Individual evidence

^ Werner Schubert : Favorites . Self-published by the district museum Favoriten, Vienna 1992, p. 99.
↑ Franz Koci in sixties . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 1, 1960, p. 2 , middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
^ City hall correspondence (Magistratsabteilung 53): Vienna 1966: reports from July 1966. (…) July 18, 1966: Retired city councilor Franz Koci had a fatal accident . In: wien.gv.at , accessed on May 12, 2013.

↑ City Council a. D. Koci had a fatal accident . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 19, 1966, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Vienna City Councilor Koci had an accident at lime pits . In: Burgenland freedom . No. 29/1966, July 22, 1966 (year XXXVI), ZDB -ID 2588385-9 , p. 4.

↑ Hedwig Abraham: Franz Josef Koci . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on May 11, 2013.

↑ Franz Koci in sixties . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 1, 1960, p. 2 , middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

Web links

Franz Koci. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Remarks

↑ Koci was sworn in as a member of the state government on June 26, 1951. - From: The Administration of the City of Vienna. Reporting year 1950/51 . In: The administration of the federal capital Vienna . Magistrate of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1951, p. 14.

personal data
SURNAME	Koci, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	December 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stockerau
DATE OF DEATH	July 18, 1966
Place of death	Lime pits

[1] Werner Schubert : Favorites . Self-published by the district museum Favoriten, Vienna 1992, p. 99.

[2] Franz Koci in sixties . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 1, 1960, p. 2 , middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[3] City hall correspondence (Magistratsabteilung 53): Vienna 1966: reports from July 1966. (…) July 18, 1966: Retired city councilor Franz Koci had a fatal accident . In: wien.gv.at , accessed on May 12, 2013.

[5] City Council a. D. Koci had a fatal accident . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 19, 1966, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). Vienna City Councilor Koci had an accident at lime pits . In: Burgenland freedom . No. 29/1966, July 22, 1966 (year XXXVI), ZDB -ID 2588385-9 , p. 4.

[6] Hedwig Abraham: Franz Josef Koci . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on May 11, 2013.

[7] Franz Koci in sixties . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 1, 1960, p. 2 , middle ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

[4] Koci was sworn in as a member of the state government on June 26, 1951. - From: The Administration of the City of Vienna. Reporting year 1950/51 . In: The administration of the federal capital Vienna . Magistrate of the City of Vienna, Vienna 1951, p. 14.