Robert Uhlir

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Robert Uhlir (born May 4, 1900 in Vienna , † September 4, 1982 in Santa Eulalia , Spain ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and director of the workers' pension insurance company. From 1945 to 1966 he was a member of the National Council .

Life

After elementary school, Uhlir attended a public school and a commercial school and learned the trade of a commercial clerk. He worked in the Vienna Regional Health Insurance Fund and rose to management positions there. From 1949 to 1964, proposed by his party, he served as director of the workers' pension insurance company.

Due to his leading engagement with the Revolutionary Socialists and his work for the Socialist Workers 'Aid , Uhlir was arrested by the Gestapo in 1939 and sentenced to one year and three months in prison in November 1940 for his work for the Socialist Workers' Aid . In total, he was imprisoned in prisons and concentration camps for more than four years.

Honorary grave of Robert Uhlir at the Vienna Central Cemetery

Uhlir was buried on September 22, 1982 at the Vienna Central Cemetery in Group 15 D, Row 4, No. 18, in an honorary grave looked after by the city administration. His wife Hilde (gard Maria) Uhlir (1907–2002) was also buried in the same grave.

politics

With the National Council election in Austria in 1945 and the formation of a grand coalition , Uhlir represented the SPÖ from December 19, 1945, re-elected five times from 1949 to 1962, until March 30, 1966 (then the SPÖ went into opposition) in parliament and was managing director Chairman of the Club of Socialist Members of Parliament and Federal Councilors .

In his party he was also district chairman of the SPÖ Leopoldstadt (2nd district; Edgar Schranz , also a social security officer, succeeded him ) from 1948 to 1970 ; From 1956 to 1970 he was chairman of an important district organization of the party and a member of the Vienna SPÖ board.

After his retirement from the National Council, he was elected from 1966 to 1980 as chairman of the Pensioners' Association of Austria .

Awards

The communal residential complex Vienna 2., Engerthstrasse 148–150, between the Nordbahnviertel and the Handelskai on the right bank of the Danube, built from 1975 to 1978, was named Robert-Uhlir-Hof after Uhlir's death .

Attribution

Uhlir's family name came from Czech. It originally had an apostrophe ( Hatschek , ř) on the r. Even in the 1960s, older party friends in Leopoldstadt called him Comrade Uhlirsch .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert-Uhlir-Hof residential complex. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on May 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Own observation around 1960. Wolfgang J. Kraus
personal data
SURNAME Uhlir, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 4th September 1982
Place of death Santa Eulalia