Rosa Heinz

Rosa Heinz (born December 6, 1922 in Vienna ; † May 4, 2010 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and a community worker. She was a member of the Federal Council from 1973 to 1979 and a member of the municipal council from 1979 to 1987 .

education and profession

Heinz was born as a native of Vienna and a typical Viennese working-class child. Her father was a bag maker, her mother worked as a tailor. After elementary school, Heinz attended a secondary school and then completed a one-year business school. From 1945 she worked in the office area and from 1957 she worked as a conductor for the Vienna public transport company .

Politics and functions

Rosa Heinz joined the Socialist Party of Austria at the age of thirty after the Second World War. After joining the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe, she became a union member and was elected works council member at Hernals train station in 1960. As early as 1952, she was involved in the newspaper Die Frau , and from the mid-1950s also in the district women's committee of the SPÖ-Hernals. Rosa Heinz was elected deputy district woman leader of the SPÖ-Hernals in 1968, in 1973 she took over the function of first district woman leader. She represented the SPÖ Vienna from November 23, 1973 to February 13, 1979 in the Austrian Federal Council and replaced Robert Pfleger on February 13, 1979 as a member of the Vienna City Council and member of the Vienna State Parliament. She subsequently represented the SPÖ until the end of the legislative period in 1987 in the Vienna municipal council and state parliament, where she held a mandate in the constituency of Hernals. In the municipal council, Heinz was active in the committees for urban development and urban renewal as well as housing and urban renewal. After the end of her active, political career, Heinz worked as chairwoman of Volkshilfe Hernals. After her death, Siegi Lindenmayr and Josef Cap paid tribute to the deceased as one of the “most committed fighters for women's rights and for social justice”, who were guided by the “basic humanistic values ​​of social democracy”.

After her death, Heinz was buried in the Hernals cemetery . In 2016 the Rosa-Heinz-Weg in Hernals was named after her.

Web links

• Rosa Heinz on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• City hall correspondence from December 3, 2007 "The former SPÖ councilor Rosa Heinz is 85"
• ots.at “Long-time SP politician Rosa Heinz passed away”, May 5, 2010