Michael Walla

Michael Walla (born July 16, 1892 in St. Georgen , Hungary ; † October 7, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian gardener and politician ( ÖVP ) and gardener. During the time of the corporate state , Walla was a member of the City Council of Vienna . From 1945 to 1959 he was a member of the Austrian National Council .

Walla went to the elementary school, the public school and trained as a butcher and the gardener. In 1922 he started his own business as a gardener. Between 1933 and 1938 he was politically active as President of the Federal Association of Gardeners Austria. During the time of the corporate state , Walla was appointed a member of the Council of the City of Vienna , replacing the Vienna City Council, which was dissolved in the course of the elimination of the democratic state. After the “Anschluss” in 1938, Walla tried to be accepted into the NSDAP , but was refused with the information from the responsible local group leadership that Walla should have helped politically persecuted, “black comrades”. In 1945 he became vice-president of the Vienna Chamber of Agriculture and chairman of the Vienna Farmers' Union. He also represented the Austrian People's Party between December 19, 1945 and June 9, 1959 in the National Council.

In 1996 Wallagasse in Simmering was named after Walla.

Individual evidence

↑ Maren Seliger: Sham parliamentarism in the Führer state. "Community representation" in Austrofascism and National Socialism. Functions and political profiles Vienna councilors and councilors 1934–1945 in comparison . LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50233-9 , p. 520.
↑ Emmerich Tálos, Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Austrofaschismus. Politics, Economy, Culture, 1933–1938 . 7th edition, LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, p. 169.
^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" , final research project report, Vienna 2013, p. 243.

Web links

Michael Walla on the website of the Austrian Parliament

personal data
SURNAME	Walla, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian gardener and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Georgen
DATE OF DEATH	October 7, 1959
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Maren Seliger: Sham parliamentarism in the Führer state. "Community representation" in Austrofascism and National Socialism. Functions and political profiles Vienna councilors and councilors 1934–1945 in comparison . LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50233-9 , p. 520.

[2] Emmerich Tálos, Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Austrofaschismus. Politics, Economy, Culture, 1933–1938 . 7th edition, LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, p. 169.

[strassennamen-3] Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" , final research project report, Vienna 2013, p. 243.