Johann Schorsch

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Johann Schorsch (born October 29, 1874 in Vienna ; † April 25, 1952 there ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Johann Schorsch, son of a wood turner , learned the profession of lathe operator and locksmith after attending the elementary and community school . His years of traveling took him from Vienna via Budapest to Bratislava . He began his political career in 1890 as secretary of the workers' education association in the Meidling district of Vienna . Later, however, Schorsch was only involved in the social democratic movement in the Favoriten district , to whose district executive he was elected as a young man.

He also tried to build up a strong union , was General Secretary of the Austrian Metalworkers' Association before he was elected chairman of the Viennese metalworkers in 1909. Most recently he was elected Secretary of the Federation of Free Trade Unions in 1923.

In 1919 Schorsch was elected as a member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council. On November 26, 1920 he was also the third president of the state parliament, an office which he held for three years until November 13, 1923. After around eight years of activity at the state level, Schorsch switched to the Federal Council on May 20, 1927 as a Social Democratic member , to which he was a member for three years until December 2, 1930. In the second half of 1929, when Vienna chaired the Federal Council, Schorsch also served as President of the Federal Council .

After the National Council election in 1930 , Schorsch entered the National Council as a member of the National Council on December 2, 1930, and was a member of it until it was dissolved on February 17, 1934.

In the course of the February fighting and the ban on the SDAP, Schorsch fled first to Switzerland in February 1934 and then to Czechoslovakia , where he headed the foreign office of the Free Trade Unions of Austria in Prague . Shortly after Austria's annexation to Germany, he returned to Austria in the spring of 1938, but was arrested by the secret state police when crossing the border in Břeclav . From May 4, 1938 to December 23, 1938, Schorsch was in custody. In the course of the wave of arrests following the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , Schorsch was arrested again and again had to spend two months in prison. Because he suffered from an illness and had no links to resistance groups, he was released in September 1944.

In 1945 Schorsch was appointed chairman of the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund; he remained so until 1948. Johann Schorsch died only four years later, at the age of 77. He was buried in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department 1, Ring 2, Group 5, Number 31).

Today Johann-Schorsch-Gasse in Vienna's 14th district of Penzing commemorates the politician.

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SURNAME Schorsch, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1952
Place of death Vienna