Heinrich Hackenberg

Heinrich Hackenberg (born July 12, 1898 in Zwittau , Moravia (Austria-Hungary), today the Czech Republic , † June 14, 1951 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Heinrich Hackenberg completed a five-year elementary school and then a three-class citizen school . As a young man, he completed an apprenticeship as an electrician . From 1919 to 1920 he worked as an electrician at a factory in Brno before moving to Vienna. From 1922 he worked here as an officer at the Vienna Security Guard; he lost his job in 1929. From 1930 to 1934 he worked for the Vienna community guard.

During the Austrofascism , the social democrat Hackenberg continued to be politically active, which is why he was often arrested. Most recently he was imprisoned in the notorious detention camp in Wöllersdorf . He also joined the illegal Association of Revolutionary Socialists in Austria . The Gestapo arrested Hackenberg because of his connections to this group in August 1939 and deported him to the Buchenwald concentration camp . He was conditionally released in April 1940.

Heinrich Hackenberg joined the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) after the war and for a few weeks, from May to July 1945, served as district chairman of the Vienna district of Leopoldstadt . In December 1945 he was elected to the National Council as a member of the SPÖ , where he held his mandate until November 1949.

Web links

• Heinrich Hackenberg on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Heinrich Hackenberg. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)