Hubert Pfoch

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Hubert Pfoch (born June 25, 1920 in Vienna ; † July 10, 2008 ibid) was a Viennese local politician ( SPÖ ), Vice Mayor of the City of Vienna (1973–1978) and President of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW).

Life

Hubert Pfoch was born on June 25, 1920 in Vienna- Ottakring . He grew up in a simple family with a family of six in a room-kitchen-apartment. Pfoch learned the carpentry trade in Ottakring . Pfoch started his political engagement with the “ Rote Falken ” and continued it after 1934 in illegal social democratic youth circles. In the summer of 1938, Pfoch and two friends rode their bicycles via Munich to Dachau to ascertain the grievances there. After his return he received threats from acquaintances "to stop such horrific propaganda " because he reported empty displays in German butcher shops and abuse in the Dachau concentration camp . After the labor service , Pfoch was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a pioneer in 1940 . In the summer of 1942 Pfoch secretly photographed the transport of Jews from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. The photos and Pfoch's diary entries were later used as evidence in the Düsseldorf trial against the Nazi criminal Franz Stangl . In 1945, Hubert Pfoch deserted the Wehrmacht and returned to Vienna.

Political career

After his return to Vienna, Hubert Pfoch was instrumental in setting up the social democratic district organization Ottakring and the Socialist Youth , of which he became the first chairman. Professionally, he worked as a librarian for the municipality of Vienna. In 1949 Pfoch was elected to the Vienna City Council, in 1962 as chairman of the SPÖ district organization Ottakring (until 1987). On December 19, 1964, he was elected as the leading city councilor for public institutions in Vienna. From 1969 to 1973 he was Vienna City Councilor for Building Construction, 1973 to 1979 City Councilor for Housing and Real Estate. During his tenure there were significant advances in housing, hospital construction and infrastructure. From 1973 to 1978 Pfoch was also vice mayor. In 1979 he was elected First President of the Vienna State Parliament . He held this office until 1984.

After the end of his political career, Pfoch was elected President of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) in 1984. Until his death on July 10, 2008, Hubert Pfoch was honorary chairman of the SPÖ district organization Ottakring and honorary president of the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. He was buried at the Ottakringer Friedhof .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: Ottakring. From the Brunnenmarkt to the Liebhartstal. Verlag Mohl, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-900272-37-9 , p. 192ff.
  2. ↑ a b Hubert Pfoch: Not at Heldenplatz . Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, accessed on January 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Hubert Pfoch: ... then we could look at Treblinka from the inside . Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, accessed on January 2, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The sources speak, Doc. 09-122, "The soldier Hubert Pfoch describes the loading of the Jews from Siedlce on the deportation train to Treblinka around August 23, 1942". Bayerischer Rundfunk / radio play and media art in cooperation with the Institute for Contemporary History and the Edition of the Persecution of Jews 1933–1945 , accessed on January 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Pfoch, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfoch, Hubert Hans Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2008
Place of death Vienna