Karl Flöttl

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Karl Flöttl (born May 12, 1902 in Vienna ; † June 27, 1977 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). Flöttl was 1949-1959 member of the Bundesrat and 1959-1966 Member of the National Council .

education and profession

After elementary school, Flöttl attended a community school and then completed the advanced training school for painters, house painters and varnishers, where he learned the profession of car and furniture varnish. From 1928 he worked as a practical specialist teacher in the Vienna advanced training school and became the youth secretary and editor of the “Junge Bauarbeiter” in the construction union. In 1934 he was imprisoned in a police prison in the wake of the Austrian civil war and then interned in the Wöllersdorf detention camp. After the National Socialists came to power, Flöttl was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939 . After the end of the Second World War , Flöttl worked from 1945 as secretary of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) and in 1946 rose to the position of state secretary of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions for Lower Austria.

politics

Flöttl was chairman of the ÖGB of the state executive of Lower Austria and managing chairman of the union of construction and woodworkers. He worked as a board member of the Chamber of Labor in Lower Austria and was a member of the state party executive committee of the SPÖ Lower Austria and a member of the federal party representation of the SPÖ. He represented the SPÖ from November 5, 1949 to June 9, 1959 in the Federal Council, which he also chaired between April 17, 1953 and June 9, 1959 as Deputy Chairman. Then he was from June 9, 1959 to March 30, 1966 member of the National Council.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  2. ↑ Thanks to resistance fighters. In: The New Reminder Call . Volume 30, No. 6 June 1977 (online at ANNO ).
personal data
SURNAME Flöttl, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1977
Place of death Vienna