Maria Tusch

Gravestone of Maria Tusch at the St. Ruprecht cemetery

Maria Tusch , née Pirtsch, (born December 1, 1868 in Klagenfurt ; † July 25, 1939 there ) was an Austrian worker and politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party . She is considered one of the most important representatives of the Carinthian labor movement.

Live and act

Maria Tusch was the child of an unmarried maid, her father probably also a servant. She had a brother. Two years of primary school attendance was followed by two years of child labor in the Marienanstalt Maria Saal in 1875 . At the age of 12, in 1880, she joined the Klagenfurt tobacco control factory as a worker , where she worked as a simple cigarette maker and taker. She was committed to better working conditions and a better position for women.

Tusch was a member and confidant of the tobacco workers' association founded in Klagenfurt in 1903. At the founding assembly, the association was joined by 200 workers from the tobacco factory, which was the largest company in Carinthia and from which many social democratic politicians in Carinthia came. She later became a works councilor.

She married Anton Tusch, born in 1869, who was also a social democrat and works for the railroad. The couple adopted a daughter.

In 1910, the social democratic women's organization in Carinthia was founded. Tusch was chairwoman of the women's regional committee for Carinthia, chairwoman of the tobacco workers' union, member of the community committee St. Ruprecht bei Klagenfurt , member of the regional party representation of SDAP Carinthia. After the end of World War I, she was chairman of the Carinthian regional women’s committee of the SDAP and from 1919 to 1920 a member of the Constituent National Assembly and then in all four legislative periods of the First Republic a member of the National Council . Here she mainly represented problems in her region as well as socio-political and women's interests. Among other things, she spoke out against prosecution for abortions.

Her political career ended in 1934 with the establishment of the corporate state . Tusch died at the age of 71 as a result of pneumonia on July 25, 1939 in Klagenfurt. She was buried in the Klagenfurt St. Ruprecht cemetery.

Appreciation

In 2012 in Vienna-was Donaustadt (22nd district) in the urban development area seaside town Aspern the Maria-ink-street named after her.

For the first time, the state capital of Klagenfurt is awarding the Maria Tusch Prize , a women's prize intended to reward outstanding commitment to girls and women and make them more visible. According to the statutes, the goal of the Maria Tusch Prize is "to make feminist, women's political and equality-relevant initiatives visible by means of the associated public attention, financial support and political recognition. At the same time, the prize is intended to encourage gender-democratic action."

literature

• Anton Kreuzer : Carinthian. Biographical sketches . Part 18/20: 18th - 20th centuries . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85391-139-0 , pp. 84–87.
• Vinzenz Jobst: Marie Tusch. Life picture of a tobacco worker. Archive of the Carinthian Labor Movement, Klagenfurt 1999.
• Anna K. Benedikt: From these hours on, our spirit is awakened. Workers' movement in Carinthia 1900 - 1918. Ed .: Vinzenz Jobst. IGKA. Klagenfurt 2014. ISBN 978-3-9502039-4-3 .

Web links

• Maria Tusch on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matricula Online - Klagenfurt - St. Egid, Birth Book XVI, 1865–1871, page 201, entry no. 366, 3rd line
2. ^ Heidi Brunnbauer: Aunt National Councilor . In: austria-forum.org. riends the Austria-Forum: Association for the promotion of the digital collection of data related to Austria, June 19, 2013, accessed March 9, 2020 . 
3. ^ Elisabeth Malleier: Women in Motion 1848–1938: Marie Tusch. In: Fraueninbewegung.onb.ac.at. Austrian National Library, accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Statute for the award of the “Maria Tusch Prize”. Women's award of the city of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. In: klagenfurt.at. City of Klagenfurt, accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Angelika Zach: Maria Tusch, 1868 to 1939: One of the first parliamentarians of the 1st Republic. In: Frauenmachengeschichte.at. Karl Renner Institute, accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Tusch, Maria. In: austria-forum.org. Friends of the Austria Forum: Association for the Promotion of the Digital Collection of Data relating to Austria, accessed on March 9, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Maria Tusch Prize: For outstanding commitment: the city awards a women's prize. In: 5min.at. fivemedia, November 14, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2020 .