Helene Potetz

Helene Potetz (born August 3, 1902 in Vienna ; † September 3, 1987 there ) was an Austrian social democratic politician.

Life

Helene Potetz was a shorthand typist . She joined the social democratic youth movement in 1919 and became a member of the SDAP in 1922 . After February 1934 she worked as a resistance fighter with the Revolutionary Socialists. She was responsible for the illegal transport of the Arbeiter-Zeitung from Czechoslovakia to Austria. She was arrested in 1937/38 and again in 1939. 1941–1945 she spent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

After the Second World War, Helene Potetz had been a member of the Vienna City Council since 1945 . She was also an editor at the social democratic magazine Die Frau . From 1949 to 1959 Potetz was chairwoman of the municipal council, from 1959 to 1967 3rd president of the Vienna Parliament .

She was buried at Vienna's Südwestfriedhof (group 9, number 164).

Honors

• Great Medal in Gold, 1972
• Name of the Helene-Potetz-Hof in Vienna- Meidling , 1990
• Name of the Helene-Potetz-Weg in Vienna-Meidling, 2006

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 4: Le - Ro . Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 .

Web links

• Helene Potetz. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)