Gottfried Albrecht (politician)

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Gottfried Albrecht (born October 27, 1890 in Christianberg , † October 23, 1969 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and a city councilor in Vienna.

Life

Albrecht was born the son of a factory worker in the arms factory in Steyr. After his father lost his job in 1900, the family moved to Vienna. Albrecht completed an apprenticeship as an optician, became involved in the socialist movement from 1905 and joined the Association of Young Workers in Favoriten in 1906 . Albrecht worked for the Goerz and Zeiss companies between 1904 and 1911 and was partly active abroad. Albrecht did his military or war service between 1911 and 1918 and became a soldiers' council and member of the army personnel committee after the First World War. After the First World War, Albrecht remained a professional soldier in the people's armed forces and in the federal army and was a functionary of the military association from 1918 to 1934.

Between 1932 and 1934 Albrecht held the office of district head in Vienna- Wieden , but after the February fighting in 1934 he was interned in the Wöllersdorf detention camp for several months . After the National Socialists came to power, Albrecht became involved in a resistance group made up of socialists and communists within the Wehrmacht, serving in the Wehrmacht between 1940 and 1945.

After the Second World War, between May 1945 and April 1946, Albrecht again took over the office of district chairman in Wieden and was sworn in on November 25, 1945 as a member of the Vienna state parliament and municipal council, of which he was a member until October 17, 1954. In addition, Albrecht was in the state government of Körner II from February 14, 1946, the official city councilor for housing, settlement and allotment gardening, but resigned from his office on March 8, 1949 for health reasons.

Albrecht was Vice President of the Vienna Ice Skating Club between 1949 and 1957 and its President until 1969. He was also President of the Vienna Ice Sports Association from 1962 and 1964. Albrecht was married from 1915 and was buried in Vienna's central cemetery after his death .

In 1965 he was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wien.gv.at Vienna in retrospect. Vienna 1949: reports from March 1949

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 1: A - Da . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
  • Magistrate of the City of Vienna (Ed.): The City Council of the City of Vienna, the Vienna State Parliament, the Vienna City Senate, the Vienna State Government 1945 - 1985 . Magistrate Directorate, Vienna 1986.
  • Robert Teichl (arr.): Austrians of the present. Lexicon of creative and creative contemporaries. Austrian State Printing House, Vienna 1951.

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personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Christianberg
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1969
Place of death Vienna