Ottilie Matysek

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Ottilie Matysek (* 1939 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and member of the state parliament in Burgenland .

Life

Ottilie Matysek worked as a subject teacher and as a school director. She supported the establishment of the federal school center for business professions and tourism in Neusiedl am See . She also emerged as the organizer of exhibitions in Halbturn Castle .

Ottilie Matysek was a member of the Burgenland Parliament . Her political career within the SPÖ was at times very much promoted by Governor Theodor Kery . However, in the mid-1980s she came into conflict with her party, the Burgenland SPÖ. As the club leader of her parliamentary group , she was dismissed in the spring of 1985 without giving any reason and at the beginning of September 1985, due to an internal vote of no confidence, she was excluded from the meetings of her state parliament club. At the time, Matysek still declared that she wanted to continue her work in the SPÖ and had the support of individual functionaries (such as the then chairman of the Socialist Youth Alfred Gusenbauer ). At the same time, however, there was already talk of an impending “party split” in Burgenland.

In this situation, as an involuntary dissident, Matysek took part in a meeting of the state party executive of the Burgenland SPÖ on October 28, 1985, which was to gain importance in the course of the Waldheim affair . At this meeting, the then party chairman and Chancellor Fred Sinowatz (who came from Burgenland) announced that the “brown past” of the federal presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim would be the subject of the upcoming election campaign.

In a libel trial by Sinowatz against the journalist Alfred Worm on April 29, 1987, Matysek presented her detailed transcript of the aforementioned board meeting as evidence - a month and a half earlier she had refused to reveal details of the meeting. This transcript was found to be genuine and accurate by Judge Ernest Maurer , regardless of the contrary testimony of numerous meeting participants who appeared as witnesses, which subsequently led to the acquittal of Worm and a number of other legal proceedings and convictions for false testimony. This also affected Sinowatz and the then governor Hans Sipötz (but the latter was acquitted).

After the final break with her party and especially with Sinowatz, Matysek published a book in the Orac publishing house in the autumn of 1987 with the title: The Power in Power , in which she dealt critically with the political system of her closer home. Matysek also tried to succeed as an independent politician. In the state elections on October 4, 1987 , her “Burgenland Initiative with Matysek” ran and was supported by the “bourgeois Greens” of the VGÖ , but received only 1,923 votes and 1.09%.

As a result, Matysek was at the center of several trials, one of which was her credibility as a witness. Matysek was charged in connection with the malversations in the context of the federal state insurance scandal, in which her friend Kurt Ruso , the company's ex-general manager, played a central role. But she was acquitted - Ruso admitted to having forged her signature in bogus damage reports himself. After the Supreme Court acquitted them in September 1989 of suspicion of involvement in the infidelity of Kurt Ruso, an avalanche of trials began in 1992 against the participants in the board meeting on May 28, 1985. Ottilie Matysek was already retired at this point. According to Salzburger Nachrichten of June 21, 1990, the then almost 51-year-old was retired as school director in the summer of 1990.

literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burgenland-SPÖ excluded Matysek from the state parliament club . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 10, 1985, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). ; as well as the entire Austrian daily press of September 10, 1985
  2. ↑ See weekly press of September 10, 1985
  3. ↑ Fred Sinowatz and the Waldheim Affair. In: oesterreich.orf.at. June 14, 2007. Retrieved November 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ See Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of April 30, 1987 and other daily press on this date
  5. ^ Die Presse, August 6, 1987
  6. ^ "Matysek indictment possible earlier". Rieder : Connection with Sinowatz . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 19, 1988, p. 4 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ See the entire Austrian daily press of July 23, 1988
  8. ↑ See the entire Austrian daily press of September 22, 1989, especially "Arbeiter-Zeitung"
  9. ^ "Die Presse" of April 7, 1992
personal data
SURNAME Matysek, Ottilie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ) and member of the state parliament in Burgenland
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna