Ignaz Till

Ignaz Till (born December 11, 1891 in Csorna ; † October 14, 1945 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian small trader and politician ( SPÖ ). Till was married, a member of the Burgenland state parliament and a regional councilor in the Burgenland state government.

Ignaz Till was born as the son of the blue dyer Franz Till from Frauenkirchen. He attended elementary school in Frauenkirchen as well as various specialist and commercial courses. He worked as a waiter in Pécs and did military service between 1914 and 1918, where he suffered a serious wound. After the end of the war, Till was District Commissioner in the Soviet Republic in 1919 in the Wieselburg County (Neusiedl am See district) and a member of the County Council and the Gaurate for the autonomous German West Hungary. He then emigrated to Austria. He was then from 1919 to 1920 soldiers' council in Vienna and until 9 January 1921 chairman of the social democratic regional association of the wu. War invalids, widows and orphans and former combatants in Vienna. From autumn 1921 Till was also chairman of the “Burgenland Homeland Service” in Vienna and from autumn 1921 he worked in the “Ödenburger Heimatdienst”. On January 27, 1922, Till became a member of the administrative office for Burgenland and on January 9, 1921, he took part in the founding of the Burgenland Social Democratic Workers' Party in Wiener Neustadt. Between 1922 and 1934 he was a member of the regional executive committee of the Social Democratic Party in Burgenland and between 1926 and 1934 he was regional party chairman.

From July 15, 1922 to February 12, 1934, Till was a member of the Burgenland State Parliament and between January 4, 1924 and February 12, 1934, he held the office of Provincial Councilor in the Burgenland State Government. In the course of the suppression of the February fighting and the ban on the Social Democratic Workers' Party, Till lost his seats and was imprisoned for thirteen months between 1934 and 1938 or was under constant police surveillance. On September 20, 1944, Till was deported to the Dachau concentration camp , where he was imprisoned until liberation on May 5, 1945. Till returned to Burgenland in July 1945 after a long hospital stay and was provisional state party leader of the SPÖ and a member of the provisional state committee, but died in October 1945.

literature

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