Karl Volkert

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Karl Volkert's tomb in the Ottakringer Friedhof

Karl Volkert (born February 11, 1868 in Eßlingen in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate , † February 24, 1929 in Vienna ) was a social democratic Austrian politician and sports functionary.

Volkert was a member of the Reichsrat , a member of the National Council and a member of the Lower Austrian provincial government . 1922–1925 he was chairman of the Austrian Football Association.

Life

Volkert attended a seven-grade elementary school. He came to Vienna with his family at a young age and learned the trade of gold worker assistant. Then he worked as a private civil servant.

Volkert, who was occasionally cheerful in his early years because of his strong Swabian dialect, stood out for his unusual intelligence and his broad, self-acquired knowledge. In 1889 he joined the “Apollo” workers' education association and worked on building the social democratic district organizations in Ottakring (16th district of Vienna) and Hernals (17th district).

Volkert represented the Social Democratic Party from January 8, 1909 to January 8, 1915 as a member of the general electoral class of the Ottakring district in the Lower Austrian state parliament . After the last Reichsrat election of the monarchy he was from July 17, 1911 to July 25, 1914 and from May 30, 1917 to November 12, 1918 in the Club of German Social Democrats a member of the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat.

At and after the end of the First World War, Volkert belonged from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919 to the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria, which was formed from the German Reichsrat members and was then elected to the Constituent National Assembly, which first met on March 4, 1919 he left on May 31, 1919.

He was elected to parliament in the republic's first National Council election and belonged to the National Council from November 10, 1920, the day the new Federal Constitution came into force , until February 24, 1929 - 1923 and 1927 - for the Social Democratic Workers' Party in the first three legislative periods on.

In addition to his national political activities, Volkert was also involved again in state politics after the First World War. From November 5, 1918 to May 4, 1919, he was a member of the provisional state parliament of Lower Austria (to which Vienna still belonged at that time) and was then from May 20, 1919 to May 11, 1921 a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament during the period of separation of Vienna from Lower Austria . From January 10, 1920 to December 30, 1920, he was a member of the Vienna Curia of this Landtag and from December 30, 1920 was a Viennese delegate in the negotiations on the division of property . Before that, from May 20, 1919 to November 10, 1920, he was a member of the Lower Austrian provincial government headed by Social Democrat Albert Sever as a provincial councilor.

Volkert's political action focused on the organizational, cultural, youth and sports areas. He was the local chairman of the Kinderfreunde , the tourist association the Naturfreunde and the advanced training council.

In 1919 he became the founding president of the Association of Workers' and Soldiers ' Sports Associations in Austria (VAS) and later of its successor organization, the Workers' Association for Sport and Physical Culture in Austria (ASKÖ). From 1922 to 1925 he was also chairman of the Austrian Football Association (ÖFV), which meant that the clubs that were organized within the ÖFV as part of the social democratic interest group Free Association , later the VAFÖ , gained the upper hand in the association for the first time. In 1926 this led to the separation of the amateur-style workers' football from the professionally organized football from 1924 and the re-establishment of the ÖFV as ÖFB .

Volkert was ascribed powerful poetry with his freedom poems and battle songs, which were primarily aimed at the proletarian youth.

Posthumous honors

After his death, Volkert was buried in an urn grave dedicated to honor by the Vienna city administration in the Ottakring cemetery . In his honor, the Glocknerhaus der Naturfreunde was renamed the Karl-Volkert-Haus in 1953. In addition, the Ottakring municipal housing estate Karl-Volkert-Hof (→ List of listed objects in Vienna / Ottakring ) was named after him. A statue of the politician was placed there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Maximilian Ash: The shoe Meier , Roman, Vienna 1933, ISBN 1481016865 , page 312
  2. ^ Parlament.gv.at - Karl Volkert belongs to the Austrian Reichsrat
  3. ^ Matthias Marschik, Doris Sottopietra: Erbfeinde und Haßlieben: Concept and Reality of Central Europe in Sport, LIT Verlag, Münster 2000. P. 172

literature

  • Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 5. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1996

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personal data
SURNAME Volkert, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAP), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1929
Place of death Vienna