Johann Mandl

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Vienna Central Cemetery - Hans Mandl's grave of honor

Johann Mandl (born September 28, 1899 in Szeged , † October 23, 1970 in Vienna ), mostly known as Hans Mandl , was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and the city councilor in Vienna.

Life

Mandl completed training at a teacher training institute and was employed as a primary school teacher from 1919. He got involved with the Kinderfreunde and from 1926 worked as the head of the Sandleiten municipal youth home in Ottakring (16th district), the largest youth home in the city of Vienna. From 1929 on he was also a teacher at the Pedagogical Institute.

After the Social Democratic Labor Party was banned in 1934, Mandl was downgraded to elementary school teacher. In 1936 he passed the teaching examination as a secondary school teacher. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1942 after illegal activity , he was transferred to Łódź , in occupied Poland, in 1943 , but was able to return to Vienna before the end of the war following a serious injury sustained in an air raid.

After the liberation of Vienna in April 1945, Mandl was appointed district school inspector for Ottakring and from 1946 was also active as the Federal Chairman of the Kinderfreunde. In 1949 he was promoted to state school inspector for vocational schools by the City School Council for Vienna .

On December 5, 1949, Mandl was sworn in under Mayor Theodor Körner , succeeding Viktor Matejka , who had held the office since 1945, as the official city ​​councilor for culture and popular education . His business group included the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna (Municipal Department 7), the Vienna City Library (Municipal Department 9), the Museums of the City of Vienna (Municipal Department 10) and the Archives of the City of Vienna (then Municipal Department 67, today 8). He was the president of the Wiener Festwochen association ; the Wiener Symphoniker were also under his patronage. In 1954, under Mayor Franz Jonas , who had been in office since 1951, the agendas of the municipal school administration (Magistratsabteilung 56) were also transferred to him.

Furthermore, Mandl was elected Vice Mayor in December 1959 and remained so until December 11, 1964. From December 19, 1964, Mandl was also deputy governor in addition to his office as the city councilor. On June 9, 1965, Franz Jonas took up his new office as Federal President ; his successor as mayor was Bruno Marek . Mandl, now of retirement age, resigned from his functions as a member of the Vienna City Senate and the Vienna State Government on December 20, 1965. Felix Slavik succeeded him as Deputy Governor , and Gertrude Sandner as City Councilor for Culture .

During Mandl's term of office, among other things, the restart of the Wiener Festwochen , the construction of the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna on Karlsplatz and the construction of the Wiener Stadthalle , the rescue of the Theater an der Wien , a reform of the popular education system, the repair of the Viennese schools as well as the construction of houses of encounter. In 1964 he published the book The Children's Friends in Our Time .

Mandl was married from 1924, father of a daughter (* 1928) and lived in Vienna- Penzing , the 14th district. As a politician, he was only referred to in the media as Hans Mandl after 1945.

Honors

literature

  • Who is who in Austria. Vienna, Klagenfurt 1951

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Mandl. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  2. ↑ June 4, 1965: Golden Medal of Merit of the Academy of Sciences for Councilor Mandl on the City of Vienna website, accessed on November 22, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mandl, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mandl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1970
Place of death Vienna