Klemens Friemel

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Klemens Friemel (* December 21, 1881 in Prague ; † January 21, 1961 in Vienna ) was district mayor (= district chairman ) of the 10th district of Favoriten for three months after the liberation of Vienna by the Red Army . He belonged to the Communist Party of Austria .

Friemel was the son of an academic painter and a miller's daughter, and a baker's assistant by profession. Before the First World War he was also likely to have been an independent baker. From his first marriage there were three children, including Rudolf (see below). Until it was banned in 1934, he belonged to the SDAP , the Austrian social democracy. He was arrested and detained several times by the corporate state dictatorship for political activity for the Revolutionary Socialists , including in the Wöllersdorf detention camp . In 1937 he turned to the “illegal” KPÖ , with which he stayed in contact during the Nazi dictatorship. During the war he worked as a porter for Brown, Boveri & Cie until 1945 . in their factory in Gudrunstrasse in Favoriten.

On March 18, 1944, Klemens Friemel acted as best man in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the wedding of his son Rudolf , who had been active in the resistance and who was hanged in the same year, with the Spaniard Margarita Ferrer Rey, who had lived in Vienna since 1943, as permitted by the Reich Security Main Office . The process was retold by Erich Hackl in 2002 , and Rudolf-Friemel-Gasse in the 10th district has been named after Klemens Friemel's son since 2004 (decision) and 2009 (implementation) .

On April 9, 1945, during the Battle of Vienna , Friemel was appointed district mayor of Favoriten by a local commander of the Soviet Army whom he seemed trustworthy . In 1947 it was officially recorded that Friemel had established himself with a large number of volunteers in the municipal district office and had fought the threatening chaos.

In April 1945, several KPÖ groups in the 10th district had resigned from illegality. In the course of building a unified party organization, Friemel was replaced as district mayor by another communist, Karl Kempf , on July 24, 1945 . Until 1950 he worked as the director of a municipal children's recreation home and was also the district chairman of the Central Association of Pensioners , which is closely related to the KPÖ .

In 1990, Friemel was erroneously mentioned as Eduard Friemel in Josef Rauchberger's band about the district representatives in Vienna and then in other texts.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 417.
  2. ↑ Erich Hackl: The wedding of Auschwitz. An incident , Diogenes, Zurich 2002, paperback 2004, ISBN 978-325-72337-73
  3. ^ Mugrauer (see literature), p. 63
predecessor Office successor
Josef Koehler District head of Favoriten
1945 		Karl Kempf
personal data
SURNAME Friemel, Klemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1961
Place of death Vienna