Hans Suchard

Hans Suchard (born March 25, 1893 in Mattersdorf , † August 7, 1968 in Mattersburg ) was an Austrian trade union secretary and politician ( SDAP ). Suchard was married and a member of the Burgenland Landtag .

Life

Hans Suchard was born as the son of the main bricklayer foreman Josef Suchard from Mattersdorf, moved from Marz. He attended elementary school in Mattersdorf and the commercial advanced training school in Lower Austria. Suchard worked after his training as a bricklayer and in 1909 as a construction clerk in Vienna. Between 1914 and 1918 he did his military service and was released in August 1918 after being seriously wounded. Suchard was a construction clerk in Wiener Neustadt in 1918 , where he commuted. From 1939 he was an assistant in tax matters and from 1940 an auditor, accountant and tax advisor .

Suchard was the shop steward of the social democratic trade unionists in Vienna in 1912. On November 6, 1918, he was involved in the establishment of the White Guard to maintain order in Mattersdorf, and his brother Josef Suchard was active as the leader of the action. On December 6, 1918, the " Republic of Heinzenland " was proclaimed and the Guard took power in the city. A day later, Suchard was arrested with the leaders of the guard and imprisoned in Sopron . There was a charge of high treason, but the defendants were pardoned on December 26, 1918 by an amnesty from Prime Minister Count Mihály Károlyi .

Suchard became involved in 1919 for the Social Democratic Party in Sopron and was a member of the board of directors (district administration) in Mattersdorf during the Béla Kun time. Suchard also held the function of district secretary and head of communist agitation and emigrated to Wiener Neustadt after the collapse of the council. As a result, in 1921 he co-founded the state party leadership of the Social Democratic Party in Burgenland and the press organ of the Social Democratic Party, the Burgenland Freedom , which first appeared in 1921. Suchard was also a member of the state party executive from 1922 to 1934, chairman of the administrative committee of the Burgenland Chamber of Labor from 1925, chairman of the state executive of the Burgenland trade union commission from 1928 to 1932 and subsequently a member of this body until 1934 and state secretary of the construction union between 1921 and 1934. Suchard was a member of the Burgenland Landtag between November 13, 1923 and February 12, 1934. After the February fighting in 1934, he lost his seat in the state parliament and was briefly in political custody.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part I (1923-1938). Eisenstadt 1972