Paul Bisjak

Paul Bisjak , also Paul Bizjak , (born January 6, 1891 in Tschachoritsch , municipality of Köttmannsdorf , † August 20, 1988 in Ferlach ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and foreman. He was a member of the Austrian National Council and a member of the Carinthian state parliament .

Life

Bisjak attended the three-class elementary school in Kappel an der Drau and completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter between 1905 and 1909. After years of wandering, in 1920 he found a job as a carpenter at the Kärntner Eisen & Stahlwerke Ges. In Ferlach, where he also worked as a works council from 1920 to 1934. In the course of the Austrian Civil War , Bisjak was arrested in 1934. Bisjak was active with the Revolutionary Socialists of Austria and in 1935 was sentenced to two months' arrest for "secret bundling". On August 28, 1944, in the course of a general wave of arrests against Carinthian Social Democrats, Bisjak was also to be arrested. However, he managed to escape when he was arrested, whereupon he joined the partisans.

After the Second World War, Bisjak represented the Carinthian Social Democrats between 1945 and 1949 in the Carinthian Landtag, after which he was a member of the National Council from May 4, 1949 to November 8, 1949 as the successor to the late MP Hans Lagger .

Individual evidence

↑ August Walzl: Against National Socialism. Resistance to Nazi rule in Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85378-410-0 , p. 23.
↑ Knut Lehmann-Horn: Mostly successful. 44 years of the governor's party SPÖ Carinthia 1945–1989. Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85391-210-9 , p. 25.
^ August Walzl: Carinthia 1945. From the Nazi regime to the rule of occupation in the Alps-Adriatic region. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1985, ISBN 3-85378-235-3 , p. 186.

Web links

Paul Bisjak on the website of the Austrian Parliament

personal data
SURNAME	Bisjak, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bizjak, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH	January 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tschachoritsch
DATE OF DEATH	20th August 1988
Place of death	Ferlach

[1] August Walzl: Against National Socialism. Resistance to Nazi rule in Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1994, ISBN 3-85378-410-0 , p. 23.

[2] Knut Lehmann-Horn: Mostly successful. 44 years of the governor's party SPÖ Carinthia 1945–1989. Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85391-210-9 , p. 25.

[3] August Walzl: Carinthia 1945. From the Nazi regime to the rule of occupation in the Alps-Adriatic region. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1985, ISBN 3-85378-235-3 , p. 186.