Gabriele Proft
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Gabriele Proft (born February 20, 1879 in Troppau , Austrian Silesia , † April 6, 1971 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian politician of the SPÖ .
Gabriele Proft came from a simple background, she attended the practice school and two classes of community school . She came to Vienna at the age of 17 and worked as a housemaid and home worker. A lecture by Franz Schuhmeier prompted her to join the “Apollo” educational association. She was involved in the social democratic women's movement and the trade union . From 1906 she continued her education at the workers' school , where she heard lectures by Robert Danneberg and Adolf Braun, among others . In 1909 she became the central secretary of the women's organization of the Social Democratic Workers' Party.
During the First World War she was one of the supporters of the war opponent Friedrich Adler . At the party congress in 1917, she presented the “Declaration of the Left” against the party leadership's policy of loyal to the government. In 1918 she was elected as one of five women to the Vienna City Council, in 1919 to the Constituent National Assembly and in 1920 to the National Council , of which she was a member until 1934.
After the February fighting in 1934 , she was imprisoned for months. She then joined the Revolutionary Socialists . In 1944 she was arrested by the National Socialists and interned in the Maria Lanzendorf satellite camp until the end of the war.
After the war ended in 1945, she resumed her political activities in the National Council and in the party organization. From 1945 to 1953 she was a member of the National Council and from 1945 to 1959 she was deputy party leader of the SPÖ.
Her grave is in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall . It is one of the grave sites of the city of Vienna that are dedicated or taken into custody on account of honor.
In 2002 the Gabriele-Proft-Weg was named in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) .
Web links
- Gabriele Proft on the website of the Austrian Parliament
- Literature by and about Gabriele Proft in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gabriele Proft. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Proft, Gabriele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Proft, Ella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opava , Austrian Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1971 |
| Place of death | Bad Ischl |