Paula Wallisch

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Paula Wallisch (born June 7, 1893 in St. Johann am Pressen , Carinthia , † July 19, 1986 in Graz ) was an Austrian politician and resistance fighter .

Life

Wallisch came from a working class family in Carinthia. In Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor ) she completed elementary and community school and a kindergarten course. She then worked in Szeged , where she met her future husband Koloman Wallisch . The wedding was supposed to take place on August 5, 1914, but had to be postponed indefinitely because the war began . She worked as an educator and was involved in social democratic work through her husband. The Russian Revolution and the trial of Friedrich Adler also promoted this development.

The Wallisch couple played a not insignificant role in the Hungarian revolution after the war . After the counter-revolution they had to flee Hungary. Paula Wallisch's hometown was also unsafe and they fled to Fürstenfeld . At the party conference in 1920, Paula and Koloman Wallisch met the then mayor of Bruck an der Mur . This convinced the couple to move to Bruck in 1921.

After the Austro-Fascist regime came to power in February 1934, Koloman Wallisch was executed under the law . In A Hero Dies , she describes this time exactly from her point of view. After the death of her husband and serving a prison sentence, she went back to her birthplace. With the support of Otto Bauer , she came to Czechoslovakia . Your task in Brno was to visit the refugee camps. It was supposed to counteract the attempts to entice away the communists. Because as a woman she could be better used as a courier, she often drove through fascist Germany.

After the establishment of the Reich Protectorate , she returned to Graz under a false name. There she worked under the name Fuhrmann in the Graz regional hospital. There she was also active in the resistance movement. After the Second World War she was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1945 to 1956 . In addition to working as a parliamentarian, she was an active member of various women's and children's organizations.

Awards (excerpt)

Publications

  • A hero dies. German Social Democratic Workers' Party in the Czechoslovak Republic - Organizational Edition , Prague, 1935, DNB 992931886 . New edition: Publishing house of the Socialist Party Provincial Management Styria, Graz, 1946, DNB 576868159 .
  • The way further. 1963

literature

  • Heinz Mang: Styria's Social Democrats in the Storm of Time. 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Wallisch, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and resistance fighter, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann am Pressen , Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1986
Place of death Graz