Karl Mantler

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Simmering fire hall - Karl Mantler's urn grave

Karl Josef Mantler (born January 13, 1890 in Vienna ; † August 3, 1965 there ) was an Austrian trade union official, politician ( SPÖ ), resistance fighter against Austrofascism and prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Mantler, whose father was a miller's assistant, attended elementary and community school. Then he completed an apprenticeship as a butcher. In 1906 he joined the union for butchers and meat-picking assistants , was a member of the executive committee there from 1908 and served as union secretary from 1913. He also became a member of the SPÖ. In 1920 Mantler played a key role in the founding of the International Union of Food and Beverage Workers in Zurich , to whose association the union for butchers and meat-pickers was a member. At the time of Austrofascism in Austria, in mid-February 1934 he was a co-founder of the illegal free trade union of food workers . and was 1934/1935 spokesman for the "Committee of Seven". After further unions illegally re-established and united to form the opposition federation of free trade unions , Mantler became its chairman. In March 1936 he attended the Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation in London under the cover name "Julius" . After he was arrested in 1936, Mantler was imprisoned as SPÖ shop steward from 1937 to 1938 in the Wöllersdorf detention center.

Soon after the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich , Mantler was arrested and in 1939 sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There he was given prisoner number 3723 and was employed in the effects room. Mantler was involved in the revision of the Buchenwald Manifesto in April 1945 and was one of the signatories.

After his liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp, Mantler returned to Austria and took over the chairmanship of the union of food and beverage workers . From December 19, 1945 to November 5, 1949, Mantler was a member of the Federal Council for the SPÖ and from January 11, 1947 to November 8, 1949 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Asset Protection and Economic Planning under Peter Krauland ( ÖVP ). According to contemporary media reports, Mantler was an accomplice to the minister's criminal machinations, which resulted in the so-called Krauland scandal . From 1945 to 1956 Mantler was also President of the Austrian Chamber of Labor and from 1949 to 1956 President of the Vienna Chamber of Labor . Due to illness, Mantler had to give up his functions in 1956.

Mantler was buried in an honorary grave in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall .

literature

  • Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karl Mantler in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , Wallstein-Verlag, 2000, p. 323
  3. ↑ a b From the archive! Code name "Julius". Chamber of Labor , October 24, 2007, archived from the original on February 2, 2016 ; Retrieved November 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b Karl Mantler on the website of the Austrian Parliament
  5. ↑ In favor of the party coffers . In: Der Spiegel , edition 8/1951 of February 21, 1951, p. 15f.
  6. ↑ Honorary graves in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF; 79 kB) at www.friedhoefewien.at (accessed on June 8, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Mantler, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mantler, Karl Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trade union official, resistance fighter and politician (SPÖ), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1965
Place of death Vienna