Maria Hlawka

Maria Juliana Hlawka (born: Maria Juliana Thomschitz ; born April 7, 1914 in Bad Vöslau , Lower Austria ; † January 3, 2005 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Maria Thomschitz grew up as the daughter of a machinist in a Viennese working-class family; she herself learned the trade of bookbinder after attending the community school . In 1931 she became a member of the Socialist Workers' Youth , to which she belonged until the social democratic organization was banned in February 1934. In the same year she married the civil servant Karl Hlawka, whose family name she took, as was taken for granted at the time. Nothing is known about her life during the time of National Socialism .

After the war she played a key role in building up the newly founded Austrian Socialist Party (as the SPÖ was called until 1991) in the Vienna district of Favoriten . In 1954 she was elected as a member of her party in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council; she held her mandate for around 24 years, until 1978. In 1967 she was elected Third President of the State Parliament, two years later, in 1969, as Second President of the State Parliament. Most recently, she was elected First President of the Vienna State Parliament in 1973, an office she held until she retired in 1978.

From 1965 to 1977 Hlawka was chairwoman of the Vienna SPÖ women's organization and from 1966 to 1978 deputy SPÖ federal women's chairwoman. It was the only office with which Hlawka also gained national relevance.

Your urn is in the family grave in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (department 7, ring 3, group 10, number 31).

Honors

• 1964: Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1968: Large gold medal for services to the State of Vienna with the star
• 1970: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1974: Victor Adler badge
• 1983: Citizen of the City of Vienna
• In 2011, a new traffic area in the Sonnwendviertel was named Hlawkagasse in Favoriten . It is adjacent to the Helmut-Zilk-Park and the Sonnwendviertel educational campus.

Web links and sources

• Maria Hlawka in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Former Landtag President Maria Hlawka has passed away
• Maria Hlawka. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)