Otto Bauer badge

The Otto Bauer plaque for services in the fight against right-wing radicalism and fascism is an Austrian award and was donated in 1969 by the Association of Socialist Freedom Fighters . Otto Bauer was a leading theorist of Austromarxism and fought against authoritarian, dictatorial and fascist tendencies in politics throughout his life. In February 1934, he and his comrades failed in the fight against Austrofascism and had to flee abroad. In exile he and others established the diplomatic mission of the Austrian socialists abroad . On July 5, 1938, Otto Bauer died of a heart attack in Paris .

The Otto Bauer badge is reserved for members of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). It was and is given primarily to resistance fighters , survivors of the Holocaust and contemporary witnesses , but also to those born later who have earned services in the fight against right-wing radicalism and fascism . Since 2001, non-Austrians have also received awards. The ceremony takes place in Mauthausen concentration camp on a case-by-case basis .

In 2014 it was decided to create a Rosa Jochmann badge . "It should be awarded to well-deserved anti-fascists inside and outside the social democracy."

Winner of the award

Without claim of completeness. Work is underway to complete this list.

• (no year) Frieda Nödl , resistance fighter, member of the SPÖ state parliament
• 1979 Hugo Pepper , resistance fighter, popular educator and publicist
• 1998 Rudolf Gelbard , Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness
• 2001 Albert Schwägerl for his work for a memorial stone in the Flossenbürg concentration camp
• 2006 Leopold Grausam, jun. , Sculptor
• 2009 Ernst Woller , Viennese state politician

2010

Ossi Bazant Norbert Darabos , Minister of Defense

Harry Kopietz Werner Faymann , Federal Chancellor

2011

Karl Hauer , head of the Landstrasse district museum Ernst Jaritz

Theo Maier Hermine Moser , Hietzingen district politician

2012

Walter Guggenberger , Tyrolean state politician Anton Heinzl , member of the National Council Josef Ostermayer , State Secretary

Barbara Prammer , President of the National Council Gerhard Schmid , chairman of the SPÖ Hietzing Engelbert Stenico , Mayor of Landeck

2013

• Sigrid Marinell , Tyrolean politician

2014

• Albin Slabina

2015

• Marko Feingold
• Andreas Mailath-Pokorny

2016

• Herbert Moritz

2019

• Jean Ziegler , Swiss sociologist

2020

• Franz Sachernegg

Winners of the award, whose honor could not yet be dated:

• Karl Gruber , Lower Austrian state politician
• Lore Hostasch , Minister of Social Affairs
• Rosa Jochmann , resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness
• Albert Langanke , General Secretary of the International Mauthausen Committee
• Hans Pawlik , trade unionist and resistance fighter against Austrofascism
• Karl Steinocher , Salzburg state politician

proof

1. ↑ The Social Democratic Fighter , N. 4-5-6, 2014, page 2
2. ^ Viennese honors for Hilde Sochor, Wolfgang Glück and Hugo Pepper. Archive report of the Vienna City Hall correspondence dated December 3, 2004.
3. ^ Freedom Fighters Conference , APA , November 27, 2010
4. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: Marko Feingold receives Otto Bauer plaque . Article dated May 13, 2015, accessed November 13, 2015.
5. ↑ Herbert Moritz - Former SPÖ education minister was accessed in the Salzburger Nachrichten of April 3, 2017 on January 21, 2018
6. ^ "Encounter with Jean Ziegler" on April 2, 2019, SPÖ, accessed on May 7, 2019
7. ↑ Otto Bauer plaque for Franz Sachernegg. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .