Eleonora Hiltl

Eleonora "Nora" Hiltl (born June 21, 1905 in Vienna ; † January 2, 1979 ibid) was an Austrian teacher and politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

Eleonora Hiltl - she is often referred to by her nickname Nora - was born like her twin sister Herta Pammer on June 21, 1905 in the Vienna district of Hietzing . Due to the occupation of her father, Colonel of the Cavalry in the Joint Army , the family often had to move at first. After the First World War , the family settled in Innsbruck in Tyrol down where Eleonora Hiltl after the middle school , the school-leaving examination took off.

After the one-year budget School of Ursulines in Innsbruck Hiltl began at the Music Academy of Vienna Music on teachers to study. After passing the state examination for piano with distinction in 1928 , she passed the state examination for teaching music at secondary schools and teacher training institutes in 1933.

In 1933 she first returned to the Ursuline household school in Innsbruck, where she taught until 1935. In September 1935 she finally settled in Vienna, where she began to teach music education in various schools. From September 1939, however, she worked exclusively at the Wenzgasse grammar school in Hietzing and at what is now the Mollardgasse vocational school in Mariahilf .

From November 1939 to April 1940 Hiltl, who always opposed the Nazi regime, was in Gestapo custody. She was allowed to work as a teacher again afterwards, but was under close observation.

After the end of the Second World War , in 1945, she gave up teaching in order to enter politics. In 1945 she entered the Vienna State Parliament and City Council as a member of the ÖVP . In 1946 she became an employee of what is now the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture , where she took over the department for general women's education . Since the interests of women were important to her, she founded, among other things, the weekly magazine Frau von heute in 1946 , which she headed as editor-in-chief until 1956.

In 1968 she went back to the University of Vienna as a student , where she began to study theater studies and art history . In 1974, at the age of 69, Hiltl became a doctor of philosophy .

In June 1969, after 24 years as a member of the Viennese state parliament, she became a member of the Federal Council . However, she was a member of this group for only one and a half years, until December 1970.

Her great-great-grandfather was the butcher and banker Josef Ettenreich , the lifesaver of Emperor Franz Joseph I during the attempted assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1853 .

Awards

• Great badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
• Gold medal for services to the State of Vienna
• Benemerenti Medal
• Decoration of honor for services to the liberation of Austria

• The Nora-Hiltl-Hof in Hietzing bears the name of the politician.
• The Hiltlweg has also been in Hietzing since September 2011 .

Web links

• Eleonora Hiltl on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Hiltl, Nora (Eleonora) in the Austria Forum, accessed on January 4, 2012.
2. ↑ Honoring Austrian freedom fighters. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 11/1977, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). .