Marie Schuller

This article describes the Austrian politician Maria Schuller ; for the German actress born in 1992, see Marie-Claire Schuller .

Sign at Marie-Schuller-Park in Großjedlersdorf

Marie Schuller , also Maria Schuller (born October 17, 1863 in Floridsdorf as Maria Schwingenschlögel , † December 13, 1944 Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ).

life and career

Marie Schuller was born Maria Schwingenschlögel on October 17, 1863 as the daughter of a warehouse worker in the then Lower Austrian village of Floridsdorf. In 1884 she married a machine fitter and later railroad worker and was involved in the Austrian labor movement as early as the 1880s . From the early 1890s she campaigned for women's issues in the Social Democratic Workers' Party and was an agitator for the Libertas reading and discussion club headed by Adelheid Popp . Schuller later appeared as chairwoman of the Floridsdorf women's and girls' association of the same name, which was founded in 1902. Within the party, she was a member of the Lower Austria Regional Women's Committee and the Central Women's Committee. Your actual organizational activity in Floridsdorf began in 1897.

In addition to organizing sewing and crocheting courses, she also worked alongside Käthe Königstetter in the homeworker movement, led political discussion evenings and promoted the consumer cooperative movement. She was also involved in founding the Floridsdorf Women's Choir. After Floridsdorf was incorporated into Vienna , she represented this new district of Vienna as a delegate at the congresses of the Social Democratic Workers' Party. By 1934, Schuller appeared as the first head of the Floridsdorf district women's organization and worked for various welfare institutions from the First World War until the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934. After working as a district councilor from the 1920s and holding this position until 1930, she switched to a mandate in the Vienna municipal council and state parliament that year . Due to the lowering of the age limit for mandataries to 65 years, Schuller had to resign from the local council or state parliament in 1932.

Schuller, who among other things is considered to be the co-founder of the Workers' Samaritan Association in Floridsdorf and, among other things, was a member of the supervisory board of the consumer cooperative in Vienna and the surrounding area , died on December 13, 1944 at the age of 76 in Vienna. On June 21, 1961, the local council committee for culture named a park in the Großjedlersdorf district of Floridsdorf in her honor as Marie-Schuller-Park .

Honors

• Marie-Schuller-Park , named since June 21, 1961 by a municipal council committee for culture

literature

• G. Dorffner:  Schuller, Marie; born Schwingenschlögel (1863–1944), politician. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 328.
• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 2990–2991.

Web links

• Marie Schuller in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Marie Schuller. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Marie Schuller in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library