Paul Speiser (politician)

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Paul Speiser (born July 19, 1877 in St. Pölten , Lower Austria , † November 8, 1947 in Vienna ) was an Austrian social democratic politician. Speiser was a member of the National Council , a member of the Federal Council and the Vienna City Council, and from 1945 to 1947 Vice Mayor and Deputy Governor of Vienna .

Life

Paul-Speiser-Hof, Vienna-Floridsdorf

Speiser was born the son of a master bookbinder and graduated from elementary school and grammar school (lower level) at the teacher training institute. From 1896 Speiser worked as a sub-teacher in the school service and made contacts with social-democratic teachers around the teachers' association chairman and later member of parliament Karl Seitz .

In 1901 Speiser switched to railway accident insurance and from 1902 to 1907 he was a part-time editor of the social democratic Floridsdorfer weekly newspaper "Der Volksbote". From 1907 Speiser was secretary of the social democratic school association "Free School", which merged in 1922 with the Kinderfreunde .

After the end of the First World War , Speiser was appointed to the Central Secretariat of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1918. From 1918 to 1934 he was an elected member of the Vienna City Council and from 1920 onwards he was also a member of the Vienna State Parliament . In 1919 he was appointed to the 30-person executive committee of the local council, the city ​​council under Mayor Jakob Reumann . In 1920 he was elected by the social democratic municipal councils as the executive councilor for personnel matters and administrative reform .

Speiser held this function under Mayor Karl Seitz until the Social Democratic Workers' Party was banned on February 12, 1934 (see state government and city senate Seitz I to Seitz III ). He was also chairman of Kinderfreunde in 1933/34.

From December 1, 1920 to May 20, 1927, Speiser was elected by the Vienna City Council and a member of the Bundesrat , the second chamber of parliament.

On February 12, 1934, when the civil war broke out, Speiser was arrested in the Vienna City Hall and imprisoned for several weeks in the Wöllersdorf detention camp . In 1944 he was arrested by the National Socialists despite a serious illness.

After the Second World War , Speiser was again a member of the state government and city senate from April 1945 under Mayor Theodor Körner and, as the city councilor, took over the department for municipal enterprises. Speiser, who was also elected Vice Mayor and Deputy Governor of Vienna on July 31, 1945, was also a member of the National Council from December 19, 1945.

Vienna Central Cemetery - honor grave of Paul and Wolfgang Speiser

On December 13, 1945 he was sworn in again as a member of the municipal council and member of the Vienna Landtag . In addition, Speiser was from 1945 chairman of the Vienna SPÖ and deputy federal party chairman and, as in 1933/34, was chairman of the Kinderfreunde in 1945/46. (He was then made honorary chairman.)

On February 14, 1946, he changed departments and, as a city councilor, took over the administrative group for personnel matters, administrative and operational reform. Speiser was made an honorary citizen of the City of Vienna on July 21, 1947 .

Speiser held his public functions until his death on November 8, 1947. He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in a grave of honor (Group 14C, No. 14).

In 1948 the communal residential complex built in 1929 at Franklinstrasse 20 and Freytaggasse 1–9 and 2–14 (21st district; architects Ernst Lichtblau and Hans Glaser ) was named Paul-Speiser-Hof .

Speiser was married and the father of lawyer Wolfgang Speiser , who u. a. Director of the Vienna Urania became.

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SURNAME Speiser, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAP), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Polten
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1947
Place of death Vienna