Marianne Pollak

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Residential complex in Floridsdorf

Marianne Pollak (born Springer ; born July 29, 1891 in Vienna ; † August 30, 1963 there ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Marianne Springer, the confession by a Jew , visited the civil and commercial college and completed subsequently trained as a teacher of French and English . In 1919 she found work at the recently founded Schönbrunn Educational School , where she worked alongside Alfred Adler and Karl Kautsky , among others .

In 1915 she married the journalist Oscar Pollak in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , with whom she moved to London in 1923 . Here she worked for around two years, until 1925, as the secretary of the social democratic politician Friedrich Adler , who worked from London to set up the Socialist Workers' International. Marianne Pollak herself had been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) since 1914 . In 1925 the Pollaks returned to Vienna, where both became editors of the social democratic magazine Das kleine Blatt . Marianne also worked as an employee of the editorial staff of the Arbeiter-Zeitung , whose editor-in-chief was her husband Oscar Pollak. At the same time she was involved in women's movements. In 1933 she became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .

Oscar and Marianne Pollak's grave

In 1935 Pollak and her husband fled to the Czechoslovakian Brno and from there, in 1936, to Brussels . After Hitler's troops had also invaded Belgium , she withdrew to Paris , and from there in 1940 via Lisbon to London. Here she joined the Austrian Labor Club , the social democratic movement founded abroad.

In autumn 1945 Oscar Pollak initially wanted to run for a seat in the National Council as a member of the SPÖ , but he renounced his candidacy in favor of his wife. This moved into the National Council in December 1945 , where it served as a member of parliament for almost 14 years until June 1959 (see also National Council elections in Austria in 1949 , 1953 and 1956 ). Marianne Pollak advocated the right of women to have an abortion very early on . Just two days after the death of her husband, who died at the age of 69, Marianne Pollak committed suicide because she did not want to be separated from him. Both were cremated and buried together. Her honorary grave is located in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department ML, Group 20B, Grave No. 1G).

In 2011, Marianne-Pollak-Gasse in Vienna- Favoriten (10th district) was named after her.

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SURNAME Pollak, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Springer, Marianne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1963
Place of death Vienna