Roman Rautner

Roman Rautner (born December 27, 1925 in Vienna ; † January 8, 2001 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). After his death, Rautner was buried in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna in the Leopoldauer Friedhof .

education and profession

Rautner grew up as the son of a metal caster and an operator with five siblings in very cramped conditions. After the death of his father, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1938, Raunter had to provide for the family at the age of thirteen. Rautner worked as a temporary worker at a bakery from two in the morning, delivered the baked goods by handcart and then worked as an unskilled worker for the railway. From 1940 Rautner learned the trade of bricklayer and passed the final apprenticeship examination. After completing his apprenticeship, Rautner was drafted into the Wehrmacht and became a British prisoner of war during the war. After his release from captivity Rautner worked in a coal mine in the Bregenz Forest and then was stone mason at branch Salzburg of Porr . There Rautner worked as a works council from 1948 and became a board member of the regional health insurance fund and a member of the appeals senate at the labor court.

Politics and trade union engagement

During the so-called " Olah Crisis", the trade union called Rautner to Vienna, where he rose to become deputy chairman of the construction and woodworkers' union and, in 1978, took over the office of chairman. Rautner was chairman of the union until 1986. From 1979 Rautner was also deputy president of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions . Rautner also held the office of chairman of the construction workers 'vacation and severance pay fund between 1976 and 1982, and in this function acquired a high reputation through the further development of construction workers' rights. Because of his involvement in the international trade union movement, he was elected Vice-President of the International Federation of Construction and Woodworkers in 1979.

Rautner was elected to the Viennese state parliament and local council by the state and local council elections in 1973 with a remaining vote and was sworn in on October 21, 1973. He was a member of parliament until April 24, 1983 and switched to the Vienna City Senate and the Vienna Provincial Government on May 27, 1983. He belonged to the state government during the term of office of the governments of Gratz IV and Zilk I , where he was responsible for buildings. Rautner resigned from office in 1986 for health reasons, after shortly beforehand resigning from his position as union chairman.

Web links

• Roman Rautner. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
• Archive report of the city hall correspondence from December 21, 2000 City council a. D. Roman Rautner turns 75