Gottlieb Fiala

Gottlieb Karl Fiala (born October 14, 1891 in Trebitsch / Třebíč , Moravia ; † December 28, 1970 in St. Andrä an der Traisen ) was an Austrian trade unionist and politician ( KPÖ ).

Gottlieb Fiala attended a community school in Vienna and learned the trade of a punch . He then went on a hike and worked as a shoe worker. In 1915 he was taken prisoner by Russia and became a communist. After his return in 1918, he helped found the KPÖ. He was a member of the workers' council and the central committee of the KPÖ. From 1924 to 1927 he was a representative of the party on the Executive Committee of the Communist International . After the KPÖ was banned in May 1933, he was active in the illegal trade union movement for shoe and leather workers.

In April 1945 Fiala was one of the founders of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and became its vice-president. During the October strike in 1950 , which the ÖGB rejected , he was on the side of the communist strikers and was therefore expelled from the ÖGB. Fiala was rehabilitated with a resolution of the ÖGB federal board of 25 October 2015. The resolution states: "Since the allegations that the October strikes in 1950 were an attempted communist coup have been refuted according to current historical knowledge, all trade union educational documents, if this has not yet taken place, must be adjusted accordingly." Resolution “that the union members who were excluded as a result of the strikes, above all the ÖGB founding member Gottlieb Fiala, could not have been excluded based on current knowledge.” However, his exclusion was not declared null and void.

From 1949 to 1954 Fiala was a member of the Federal Council . In 1951, as a candidate for the KPÖ, he achieved 5.1 percent of the vote in the federal presidential election . Fiala was also a member of the executive branch of the World Trade Union Confederation .

He was buried in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department 7, Ring 3, Group 4, Number 9).

Web links

• Gottlieb Fiala on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Short biography on glb.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ÖGB Federal Board: Refugee Policy and October Strike Rehabilitation , GLB , October 29, 2015.

literature

• AT Lane: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders ( en ). Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995, ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6 .