Minna Krasa

Wilhelmine "Minna" Krasa (born March 1, 1876 in Vienna ; † April 20, 1948 there ) was a pioneer of the Austrian workers' movement.

Live and act

As a child, Krasa got to know at secret political gatherings in his parents' apartment, a comrade of the social democratic workers' party SDAP , which had been banned since it was founded in 1889, and of which his father had been a member since the early phase of the social democratic workers' movement . Krasa joined the union as a young bookbinder and was chairman of the union of bookbinders and paper workers for 25 years . During this time she received training as a speaker through the Workers' Education Association and in the Döblinger Wahlverein and took care of union advice for colleagues and especially female colleagues, organized and negotiated in wage disputes and participated as a delegate at international professional congresses, trade union meetings and women's conferences.

In addition to the union, Krasa was also involved in other SDAP political organizations. From 1894 to 1900 she was the editor of the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung .

In 1932 Krasa retired due to an eye disease, but remained active from 1934 to 1945, during the Austro-Fascism and National Socialist regime, trying to stay in contact with colleagues despite the ban on union activities.

literature

• Biographical database and lexicon of Austrian women
• Adelheid Popp: The way to the top. The social democratic women's movement in Austria, its structure, its development and its rise. Women's Committee d. Social dem. Austrian Workers' Party, Vienna 1929.

Web links

• Wilhelmine Krasa in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library