Karl Honay

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Memorial plaque in the Karl-Honay-Hof
Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Karl Honay

Karl Honay (born November 22, 1891 in Vienna ; † June 5, 1959 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Karl Honay, the son of a working-class family, completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic after attending primary and secondary school . Even as a teenager he was involved in the socialist youth . During the First World War , Honay published a socialist youth magazine. It was the Austrian politician Victor Adler who promoted Honay and made him an official in the Viennese health insurance fund. Here Honay made a name for himself as a spokesman for social policy and youth protection .

In 1918, after the collapse of the monarchy and the proclamation of the republic , it fell to Honay to organize the offices in the Vienna City Hall and to introduce a press service. In addition, Honay was appointed social democratic club secretary, an office he held until 1932. In 1920 Honay became a member of the state parliament for Vienna and Lower Austria . In the 1920s Honay published for a number of newspapers, including the Österreichische Gemeinde-Zeitung .

In 1932, after the Viennese municipal council elections, Honay was sent to the municipal council as a member of the Vienna municipal district Ottakring . In 1933 he was appointed city councilor for welfare and health. On February 12, 1934, Honay, Vienna's mayor Karl Seitz , and all of Vienna's other social democratic city councilors were arrested and deported to the Wöllersdorf detention center . But he was released that same year.

In 1934 Honay worked for a Vienna insurance company. Although he no longer held any political office, he worked in secret for the now illegal Social Democrats. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , Honays was arrested again and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp . He was held here for eight months, until 1940, before being released again. He returned to Vienna again, where he was arrested again in 1944, but this time he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp . He stayed here until February 1945.

After the war, Honay was able to resume his career as a politician when he was re-elected to the Vienna City Council and appointed City Councilor for Finance. In 1947 Honay was elected deputy mayor and thus at the same time the deputy governor of Vienna, an office he held until his death.

Karl Honay was also active at the national political level. In 1945 he became a member of the Austrian Federal Council and in December 1945 elected its President. In July 1946 he took over the office of Vice President of the Federal Council and held this position until December 1949.

Little is known about Karl Honay's personal life. On May 19th of the last year of his life, Honay suffered a stroke . He died on June 5, 1959 at the Fellinger Clinic at the age of 67 and was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 14 C, No. 27).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedwig Abraham: Karl Honay . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on September 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Karl Honay . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 6, 1959, p. 2 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ^ Catalog list Austrian National Library - Music Collection .
  4. ↑ Karl Honay. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
predecessor Office successor
Franz Hemala
(until 1934, office does not exist thereafter) 		President of the Austrian Federal Council
December 19, 1945 - June 30, 1946 		Wilhelm Riedl
personal data
SURNAME Honay, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1959
Place of death Vienna