Georg Emmerling

Georg Emmerling

Vienna Central Cemetery - Georg Emmerling's grave of honor

Georg Emmerling (born July 12, 1870 in Vienna , † December 12, 1948 there ) was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP).

Life

Georg Emmerling, the son of a weaver assistants was after the completion of the eight-year elementary school aid Drechsler . There followed years of wandering through Italy , the Switzerland , Germany , Holland and England . In July 1889, at the age of 19, he attended the Socialist Congress in Paris, which founded the Second International and for the first time decided to celebrate May Day as a workers' holiday. After his return he was in the military for three years and then went through several stages in a row in the Vienna Socialist Party, as a civil servant in the health insurance company to the manager of the consumer association "Vorwärts", until he was then proposed by the Leopoldstätter socialists for a municipal council mandate. His political career then brought him to the office of Vice Mayor of Vienna.

Political functions

• 1912: Member of the Vienna City Council
• 1918–1934: City Council
• 1919–1934: Executive City Councilor for Municipal Enterprises and Vice Mayor of Vienna
• December 1, 1920-17. February 1934 : Member of the Federal Council
• June 28, 1921-17. February 1934: Deputy Chairman of the Federal Council

During his term of office, among other things, the takeover of the Wiener Stadtbahn and its electrification fell . After the civil war in 1934 he was under police supervision. In 1945 Georg Emmerling was supposed to become mayor of Vienna , but he declined for health reasons.

Other functions

• 1902: Managing Director of the consumer association " Vorwärts "
• Shareholder of the printing company " Forward "
• December 9, 1924: Chairman of the 2nd Federal Assembly

Georg Emmerling was one of the initiators of the construction of the forward building on the right Wienzeile .

Commemoration

• Georg Emmerling was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 14 C, number 15).
• The Georg-Emmerling-Hof community building erected between 1953 and 1957 in Obere Donaustraße 97-99 near Marienbrücke was named after him.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vice Mayor Georg Emmerling. In:  Das Kleine Blatt , July 12, 1930, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Article  in:  Die Unzufriedene / Das Kleine Frauenblatt , July 19, 1930, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).

Web links

• Georg Emmerling on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Biographical data of Georg Emmerling in the Biographical Handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
• Georg Emmerling. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)