Josef Wagner (politician, 1873)

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Josef Wagner (* 1873 ; † 1936 ) was an Austrian politician, member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in the Lower Austrian state parliament and state cultural council.

Life

He was a treasurer and employed by the City of Vienna . As a solution to the social misery in Vienna after the collapse of the monarchy, he propagated the idea of emigrating to Austria , which gained popularity among the unemployed industrial workers. As part of this resettlement, also known as internal colonization , the Austrian form of the garden city movement , he founded the Kolonien in der Heimat association , which played a major role in the Oberau settler coup .

literature

  • Heidi Salome Stift: Favorite places of the Viennese: a guide to legendary places in the city and their exciting stories - on the water, in the countryside, in old walls and in the coffee house Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2004
  • Peter FN Hörz: Against the current: Perception of nature and coping with nature in the process of civilization using the example of the Vienna Danube Region Verlag P. Lang, 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Penninger: Brave new living world. Municipal housing and social movements in Vienna , diploma thesis at the Univ. Vienna, Vienna 2015 PDF
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, member of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) in the Lower Austrian state parliament and state culture council
DATE OF BIRTH 1873
DATE OF DEATH 1936