Franz Rauscher (State Secretary)

Franz Rauscher (born July 30, 1900 in Vienna ; † March 11, 1988 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Franz Rauscher's father was a railroad worker by trade, which is why Rauscher junior also learned the trade of mechanic after attending elementary and community school and graduating from the University of World Trade . In 1919 he came to the railroad as an employee and worked at Vienna's Westbahnhof . Rauscher was involved in the socialist movement at an early age, was active in the trade union and in 1926, together with Rosa Jochmann, founded the workers' college in Vienna. The two were a couple in private for a few years.

At the end of the 1920s, Rauscher was one of the co-organizers of the Republican Protection Association in Lower Austria . When social democracy was banned in the early 1930s, Rauscher went underground. But in October 1934 he was arrested during the Austrian civil war . In the subsequent socialist trial of March 1936, in which the future Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky was also indicted, Rauscher was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment. From April 1935, Rauscher served his sentence in the Wöllersdorf detention center .

Rauscher was arrested again in March 1938 only one day after the Anschluss of Austria , but was released after a week. He then found work as an unskilled worker at Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke . In 1939 Rauscher was arrested again by the Secret State Police . He was then taken to Buchenwald concentration camp . During the war , Rauscher was deported from Buchenwald to the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland , where he was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

After the war, Rauscher was not only one of the founding members of the SPÖ, but also campaigned for the reconstruction of Austria. So in September 1945 he became Undersecretary of State in the State Office for Security, Administration, Planning and Use of Public Assets. After three months, he resigned from this position in December 1945 to accept a mandate in the National Council for the SPÖ . From March 1946 to January 1947, Rauscher held the office of State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Asset Protection and Economic Planning, today's Ministry of Economics . In November 1949, after almost four years as a member of the National Council, he left the Austrian parliament. He was buried at the Baumgartner Friedhof .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Rauscher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Rauscher on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Franz Rauscher. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Individual proof

1. ^ Franz Rauscher grave site , Vienna, Baumgartner Friedhof, group L1, no.241.