Otto Mödlagl

Otto Mödlagl (born September 23, 1899 in Vienna , † December 21, 1974 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian politician ( KPÖ ) and civil engineer. Mödlagl was Undersecretary of State in 1945, Deputy Governor of Lower Austria and Burgenland from 1945 to 1946, and Member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1945 to 1949 .

Life

Otto Mödlagl was the son of the civil servant Leopold Mödlagl from Vienna and attended elementary and secondary school in Vienna, where he passed the Matura in 1917. He was then drafted into military service in World War I in 1917, the last time he was serving in Italy . Here in 1918 he also served as the soldiers' council of his battalion. After the end of the war Mödlagl studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated in 1924 with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. From 1919 to 1921 he belonged to the Social Democratic Party , in 1921 he joined the Communist Party of Austria , within which he a. a. worked as district chairman in the ninth district of Vienna. In 1928 he became a member of the SDAP again and moved to Burgenland , where he was active as a councilor in Neusiedl am See until 1934 . In 1930 he became a member of the state party leadership of the SDAP, but after the February fights of 1934 he rejoined the KPÖ and was active in the anti-fascist resistance until 1945. In 1935 he was taken into political custody for five months and also briefly arrested by the Gestapo in 1938. Between 1938 and 1945 he worked in an engineering office in Vienna. From 1946 Mödlagl ran an engineering office for surveying in Eisenstadt.

After the liberation of Austria, from April 18, 1945, at the request of the Soviet allies , he was involved in the development of the Lower Austrian regional administration as a representative of the KPÖ. He took over the post of Second Deputy Governor on September 25, 1945, but resigned from this position on October 1, 1945 and took over the position of Deputy Governor in the provisional provincial committee of Burgenland on October 1, 1945 subsequently exercised until January 4, 1946. In addition, Mödlagl was Undersecretary of State for Public Buildings, Transitional Economics and Reconstruction in the Renner Provisional State Government between May 4, 1945 and December 20, 1945 and represented the KPÖ in the Burgenland Landtag between December 13, 1945 and November 4, 1949. From January 4, 1946, he was also the 3rd President of the Burgenland Parliament. Within the party, Mödlagl held the function of regional party chairman from 1945 to 1946. Afterwards he was a member of the state management and also active in the KPÖ-affiliated tenant protection association, in the concentration camp association and in the Austrian-Soviet society. Until the 1960s he was President of the Burgenland Cycling Commission.

Mödlagl was married. He died on December 21, 1974 as a result of a traffic accident and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research, Vol. 76)
• Manfred Mugrauer: The politics of the KPÖ in the provisional government Renner. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2006, p. 59f.
• Who is who in Austria. Vienna / Klagenfurt 1951

Web links

• Otto Mödlagl on the website of the Austrian Parliament