Franz Newerkla

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Franz Newerkla was an Austrian activist between the wars.

Life

The Newerkla from Wiener Neustadt got involved in the economic crisis of the interwar period for the unemployed and was finally chairman of the self-help association of unemployed Austrians , who drew attention to their situation in numerous campaigns. A demand was made if the state could not create work, for example leaving fallow land or preventing double earnings.

In 1931/1932 Newerkla succeeded in taking possession of a piece of alluvial forest in the area of ​​es Biberhaufenweg in Vienna and populating it with the unemployed, even if everyday life there was characterized by robberies, wood and cattle theft and arson.

Between October 1931 and March 1932 he was the editor of the weekly Arbeiter-Ausgabe - the independent organ of the working people and the unemployed in Austria .

Works

  • Franz Newerkla, Hron Leopold: Arbeiter-Ausgabe - Independent Organ of the Working People and the Unemployed in Austria , Self-Help Association of the Unemployed Austria, Verlag Sofie Brakl, Vienna 1931-1932

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another slander of the Reds collapsed. In:  Freedom! , December 4, 1928, p. 4, top right (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dfr
  2. ↑ White armbands for the unemployed. In:  Freedom! , June 25, 1931, p. 4, top right (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dfr
personal data
SURNAME Newerkla, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian activist of the interwar period
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century