Josef Hindels

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Josef Hindels (born January 10, 1916 in Vienna ; † February 10, 1990 there ) was an Austrian Trotskyist resistance fighter , trade unionist and anti-fascist .

Life

From 1930 to 1933 Josef Hindels did a commercial apprenticeship. During this time he was a member of the Central Association of Commercial Employees in Austria. After the National Socialists came to power in Germany in 1933, Josef Hindels was arrested for the first time for participating in a demonstration. Because of his Trotskyist sentiments, he was arrested in the Austro-Fascist corporate state . After being detained again from the end of April to July 1936, he fled to the Czechoslovak Republic in 1937 . From there he traveled to Norway in 1939 , where he worked as a member of the Secretariat of the International Workers' Front against the War . In 1941 he went to Sweden with the help of the Norwegian resistance movement , where he joined the group of Austrian free trade unionists . He worked for the Socialist Youth of Sweden , where he gave lectures, among other things. He also worked in the Austrian Association in Sweden.

In 1946 he returned to Austria under the name "Karl Popper" , where he helped to build the Second Republic . He worked in the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) and for a long time was the central secretary of the union of private employees within the ÖGB. Until 1951 he worked as training and education secretary of the union of private employees and as editor of the union organ "The private employee". From 1970 he also worked for the ÖGB publishing house and as a freelance journalist. In addition, Josef Hindels was deputy chairman of the " Association of Socialist Freedom Fighters and Victims of Fascism ". In 1976 he was given the title of " Professor ". In 1977 he received the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Liberation of Austria .

Josef Hindels died on February 10, 1990 after a long illness in Vienna. He is buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (Section 8, Ring 3, Group 8, No. 17). His grave is one of the honorary dedicated or honorary custody grave sites of the City of Vienna.

The annual Josef Hindels Symposium has been held since 1993 with the aim of dealing with historically fundamental and current topics in the spirit of Josef Hindels.

Josef-Hindels-Gasse

On 19 February 2004 at the request of the SPÖ - Döbling in Döblinger district council decided to establish a so far unnamed stretch of road in the area of Karl-Marx-Hof in the 19th Vienna district to name (= Döbling) by Josef Hindels.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honoring Austrian freedom fighters. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 11/1977, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm.
  2. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Josef Hindels. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
personal data
SURNAME Hindels, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trade unionist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1990
Place of death Vienna