Hilde Krones

Hilde Krones , née Handl ; (Born June 29, 1910 in Vienna ; † December 16, 1948 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Krones was a member of the National Council from 1945 to 1948 .

Life

Hilde Krones was born as the daughter of a baker's assistant and a housewife and grew up in the Ottakring district of Vienna . Here she also attended elementary and community school and then graduated from a commercial academy . From a young age, Krones was already socially democratic ; one of her childhood friends was Paul Schärf, the nephew of the later Austrian Social Democratic President Adolf Schärf . She was also a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ) and Friends of Nature .

In 1930, Krones became an employee of the Central Association of Commercial Employees, to which she was a member until 1934. During the time of Austrofascism , she had to live her social democratic sentiment underground and was a member of the Revolutionary Socialists . During the Nazi regime, Krones' work at a company that had been taken over by the IG Farben group also gave Krones access to medicines that she gave to resistance groups and partisans. As editor of the illegal magazine Die Truth , she also tried to do public relations work and thus make people aware of the horrors of the Nazi dictatorship.

In April 1945 the Revolutionary Socialists merged with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which was banned in 1934 . In December of the same year, Krones was elected to the National Council as a member of the SPÖ . In the years to come, however, there were repeated tensions and differences between the two social democratic camps. Oskar Helmer , then Minister of the Interior, accused the Revolutionary Socialists of having maintained contacts with the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) during the Nazi era . The National Council member Erwin Scharf was subsequently expelled from the party. Hilde Krones, who was one of the founding members of the magazine Kämper , the newspaper of the Association of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters, a victim of fascism and active anti-fascists , was also a victim of Helmers defamation.

On the evening of December 13, 1948 Krones committed out of desperation in her Vienna apartment suicide in which she took an overdose of sleeping pills to him. When she was found two days later, she was almost dead. On December 16, 1948, she died.

Web links

• Hilde Krones on the website of the Austrian Parliament