Gisela Wozniczak

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Gisela Wozniczak (born Laferl; born September 7, 1884 in Neufisching ; † April 28, 1968 in Gars am Kamp ) was the founding spokeswoman of the "Association of Female and Male Domestic Workers Austria Unity" founded in 1911, between 1919 and 1923 social democratic councilor in Vienna and between 1950 and 1955 social democratic councilor in Gars am Kamp.

Vienna City Council member Gisela Laferl (Photo: Max Fenichel )

life and work

Aryan summer freshness . Advertisement by the municipality of Gars from June 19, 1938.

Gisela Laferl grew up in Langenwang in the Mürz Valley . After her training in tourism, she worked for several years as a chambermaid , cook and domestic servant in Switzerland from 1907 , returned to Vienna in 1910 and became the founding spokesperson of the "Association of Female and Male Domestic Workers Austria Unity" founded in 1911. From 1911 to 1915 Laferl worked as a housekeeper for Friedrich Adler . After the collapse of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic of Austria, she was elected to the Vienna City Council on May 4, 1919 , where she was primarily involved in legal regulations and social security for domestic helpers. As chairwoman of the association “Unity”, she conducted collective bargaining for housemaids. In the spring of 1920 she married Isidor Wozniczak and, after moving to Kamegg, resigned her seat on the Viennese council on October 13, 1921. In 1935 the Wozniczak family bought the forest pension in Gars.

After the "Anschluss" of Austria and the associated proclamation of the Aryan summer resort , the Wozniczak family came into the sights of the National Socialists because of their social democratic convictions and their social democratic as well as Jewish circle of friends and guests, because the Waldpension continued to accommodate Jewish guests despite the official ban allowed access to their own bathing area on the Kamp, which was therefore terminated by the municipality of Gars. As a result, her husband was repeatedly arrested, detained, released and conscripted. After he was imprisoned in Vienna between autumn 1944 and spring 1945, he returned to Gars at the beginning of April 1945, where he was taken into protective custody on April 24, 1945 and taken to the Horn prison. He was then taken over by Volkssturm men on May 2, 1945, shot in Mödring and his body buried. After a year-long search, his grave was discovered on August 24, 1946, his body exhumed on September 9, 1946 and buried on September 15, 1946 with great public sympathy in Wozniczak's home community of Gars. Wozniczak's younger son Gregor was killed in Stalingrad in 1943 , her older son Walter in 1947 as a Soviet prisoner of war.

After the war, Gisela Wozniczak, who was a social democratic councilor in Gars am Kamp from May 26, 1950 to May 15, 1955, ran the Waldpension together with her daughter Mathilde.

literature

  • Alois Mück: Isidor Wozniczak. Garser culture letters. No. 1. 1988. pp. 4f.
  • Anton Mück: From memorial to memorial. Commemorative writing on the 65th anniversary of the death of the freedom fighter Isidor Wozniczak . Horn 2010.
  • Andreas Weigel : Laferl, Gisela. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 2: I-O. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 1888f. ( PDF ).
  • Andreas Weigel: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Richly illustrated history of the summer resort Gars-Thunau from its beginnings to the present. In: Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer. Published by the Museumsverein Gars, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017) p. 9–174, here “Pension Lindner” becomes “Waldpension” (p. 107ff.), “Arische Sommerfrische” (111f.) And “Braune Wolkenkuckucksheime” (p . 120-123).

Web links

Commons : Gisela Wozniczak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung, evening edition. October 14, 1921, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Wozniczak, Gisela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laferl, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH New fish
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1968
Place of death Gars am Kamp