Ludwig Bernaschek

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Ludwig Bernaschek (born May 15, 1899 in Budapest , † May 31, 1970 in Linz ) was an Austrian Schutzbund leader and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Bernaschek was the youngest of four siblings (Aurelia, Margarethe and Richard ) of a social democratic working class family. From 1900 the family lived in Linz, where he attended the Volks- , Bürger- und Staatsgewerbeschule . Bernaschek joined the socialist movement in his youth. At the age of 17 he became chairman of the socialist youth workers in Linz. In 1917 he became a soldier and a social democratic soldier's representative for the military union.

In 1925 he ran for the state parliament in the Linz constituency, but was not elected. In the course of the February fighting in 1934 , Bernaschek was arrested because he was responsible for the material department in the Schutzbund, charged and "sentenced to twelve years in heavy dungeon for high treason". In 1936 he was granted an amnesty and took over a radio business as an independent businessman.

After the Second World War, Bernaschek became a member of the state governments Gleißner III to Gleißner VIII and deputy to the governor from October 1945 to July 1969 with the agendas of community supervision, administrative police and auditing . The high point of his political career was the state elections in 1967, when he was the state chairman of the SPÖ gained a relative majority.

Bernaschek had been a member of the Equality Lodge since 1948 and a founding member of the Zu den 7 Weisen Lodge in 1950 .

In 2013, the Vienna Regional Court officially overturned the judgment for high treason.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigitte Kepplinger , Josef Weidenholzer (Ed.): February 1934 in Upper Austria. "Negotiations are no longer taking place ..." Corrected and supplemented edition. Verlag Publication PN ° 1 - Library of the Province, Weitra 2009, p. 247.
  2. ↑ Ines Kykal, Karl R. Stadler : Richard Bernaschek. A rebel odyssey. Europaverlag, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-203-50572-X , p. 38.
  3. ↑ Oberösterreichisches Tagblatt, May 16, 1949, p. 8.
  4. ^ Günter K. Kodek: The chain of hearts remains closed. Members of the Austrian Masonic lodges 1945 to 1985. Löcker, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85409-706-8 , p. 21 .
  5. ^ Bernaschek judgment officially repealed. In: OÖN of November 14, 2013 .
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Bernaschek, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Schutzbund leader and politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1970
Place of death Linz