Rudolf Heine

Rudolf Heine

Rudolf Heine (born December 14, 1877 in Rumburg , Bohemia , † December 10, 1949 in Vienna ) was an Austrian- Bohemian railway engineer, ministerial official and politician ( German Radical Party ). He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Heine was born as the son of the manufacturer Valentin Franz Heine. He attended secondary school in Vienna and then studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna , where he graduated with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. completed. During his studies in 1896 he became a member of the Arminia Vienna fraternity . After working as an assistant at the Technical University between 1900 and 1902, he joined the construction service of the State Railroad in January 1902, initially as a machine assistant in Gorizia . In August 1902 he moved to the railway construction department in Vienna, in 1903 he became a tunnel engineer in Spital am Semmering , before joining the Windischgarsten railway construction department in 1904 . After being appointed machine commissioner, he returned to the railway construction department in Vienna in 1906, where he was promoted to senior engineer in 1908. In 1912 he was appointed building officer in the building department of the railway ministry. Heine was given leave of absence in 1914 and from 1915 did his voluntary military service in the First World War as a military building officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel engineer. In 1918 he worked as a Landsturm-Oberst-Ingenieur in the railway regiment. After the war, from February 1919 onwards, Heine worked as a building officer in the Austrian State Office for Transport and from August 1919 was employed as a senior building officer at the State Office for Trade and Commerce, Industry and Buildings. He was given leave of absence in 1920 and from 1921 was senior building officer in the Federal Ministry of Transport. He retired in 1923.

In addition to his job, Heine was involved in the German Radical Party. He stood as a candidate in the Imperial Council election in 1911 in the constituency Bohemia 79 and could be in the runoff with 56 percent against the Social Democratic candidate prevail ( XII. Legislature ). He was a member of the House of Representatives between July 17, 1911 and November 12, 1918 and, as a member of a German-speaking constituency, was also a member of the Provisional National Assembly from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919 (see list ).

Later he was a leading functionary of the Austrian National Socialist trade unions.

Heine was Gauobmann of Lower Austria, a member of the main management of the Südmark Association and a member of the board of the Central Office for German Protection Work. He wrote political brochures and technical works. From 1904 he was married to Elisabeth Rosalia Bernet, although the marriage remained childless.

Web links

• Rudolf Heine on the website of the Austrian Parliament

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 436 f.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 278-279.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 316.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ vademecum.soalitomerice.cz - baptismal register Rumburg (Rumburk), Böhmen, 1872–1880, page 217, 1st line
2. ↑ documents . In: Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (ed.): "Anschluss" 1938. A documentation . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-215-06898-2 , p. 106 (recording by the Viennese National Socialist trade unionist Rudolf Heine about the “Rintelen campaign” to overthrow Chancellor Dollfuss).