Maria Jacobi (politician, 1910)

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Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Maria Jacobi
Maria-Jacobi-Gasse

Maria Jacobi (born March 12, 1910 in Vienna ; † October 8, 1976 there ) was a social democratic councilor and the first city ​​councilor in charge of the city of Vienna .

job

Maria Jacobi attended elementary and community school and passed the journeyman's examination after training as a tailor . After passing the exam as a trade school teacher, she ran several youth homes between 1930 and 1934.

After the civil war in Austria in 1934 , she was initially unemployed. In 1936 she found work at a publishing house in Vienna and rose to become an authorized signatory . According to Vienna City Hall correspondence , she was still working for this publisher in 1959.

politics

After the end of the Second World War, Maria Jacobi devoted herself to re-establishing socio-political institutions, but also to rebuilding the socialist women's organization.

  • From 1945 chairwoman of the education committee of the SPÖ district organization Landstrasse (3rd district)
  • 1945 to 1975: Member of the Vienna City Council as representative of the 3rd district
  • From December 1949 one of the secretaries of the Vienna City Council
  • From 1952 Deputy Chairwoman of the Finance Committee (but also active in the Committee for Health Care, General Administration and Municipal Enterprises)
  • 1959 to 1973 acting city councilor (administrative group IV, welfare).

In Red Vienna there was a Christian social councilor, Alma Motzko-Seitz , from 1920-1934 , who, however, did not lead any department. Jacobi was the very first social democratic city councilor in Vienna, and she was also the first female city councilor in the history of Vienna. It was also emphasized in the media that, in contrast to the professional past life of the other city councilors, she had moved from a managerial position in the private sector to the role of social city councilor. Jacobi remained the only woman in the city senate until 1965, when the “red” Gertrude Sandner was elected city councilor (administrative group III) and the “black” Maria Schaumayer was elected “municipal councilor” (administrative group XII) in a red-black coalition .

See also: City Senate Jonas III , Jonas IV , Marek I , Marek II and Slavik .

As a city councilor, Maria Jacobi endeavored to reorganize social institutions, establish municipal kindergartens and reform the care of young people at risk, as in the socio-educational concept for the city ​​of children . Their initiative owe the Vienna pensioners clubs and the Viennese people's homes their foundation. The first retirement homes were the “Sonnenhof” in the 22nd and the “Föhrenhof” in the 13th district in the early 1960s.

In 2011 it became known that during Jacobi's tenure as councilor for social services in what was then the municipal home for special pupils in Schloss Wilhelminenberg, there were numerous attacks by the staff on home residents. The city administration felt compelled to set up a commission to investigate these criminal incidents, which had long since become legally statute-barred. It should also be clarified whether the political level was aware of the incidents at the time and how they reacted to them if necessary. The chairwoman of the commission, judge Barbara Helige, said in an interview with the Viennese weekly newspaper Falter in June 2013 :

Question: So the city knew and watched?
Helige: The MA 11 knew everything, until 1973 Maria Jacobi was the city councilor in charge, after which Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner was responsible. We found letters to Jacobi. She was fully informed - but not about the sexual assault.

Honors

Commemoration

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for Communication, Art and Culture in 1030 Vienna ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ki3.at
  2. ^ Report of the Vienna City Hall correspondence, 1959
  3. ↑ a b Maria Jacobi, unforgotten in the district. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Barbara Helige heads the investigation commission , report dated October 21, 2011 on the website of the Viennese daily newspaper Der Standard
  5. ↑ Florian Klenk, Barbara Tóth: "The city knew everything" , conversation about the great shame of Red Vienna and the lessons for the present , in: Falter weekly newspaper , Vienna, No. 25/2013, June 19, 2013, p. 16 ff.
  6. ↑ Town hall correspondence of January 20, 1962
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  8. ↑ City hall correspondence of February 13, 1970
  9. ↑ City Hall correspondence of February 24, 1971
  10. ↑ Site plan of the grave on Hedwig Abraham's website, Guide: Art and Culture in Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), executive city councilor in Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1976
Place of death Vienna