Rudolf Poeder

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Rudolf Pöder (born February 3, 1925 in Vienna ; † June 9, 2013 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and trade unionist .

Life

Rudolf attended vocational school and learned the profession of aircraft engine mechanic. His mother Therese Pöder died in 1942. When he was 18 years old, he had to join the Wehrmacht in 1943 to take part in the Second World War. In the summer of 1944 he was shot down with his tank near Cannes in France and lost a lower leg in the process. His father Franz Pöder, a conductor on the Vienna tram , was killed in a bomb attack on September 10, 1944, and his brother had been missing on the Eastern Front since January 1945.

In 1947, after a job with the US Army, he entered the service of the City of Vienna as a clerk. From 1953 on he worked full-time in the union of community employees, supported by the then chairman Johann Pölzer (junior) .

In 1963 he became the senior lecturers promoted the union, elected in 1974 as Chairman of the National Committee of Vienna and 1975 (Austria as a whole) to the Chairman .

From 1969 to 1983 (during the term of office of Mayors Marek , Slavik and Gratz ) he was a member of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament for the SPÖ and was one of the three chairmen of the Vienna City Council from 1978 to 1983. From 1979 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions , who had to represent President Anton Benya .

In 1983 he switched to the National Council and was deputy chairman of the Club of Socialist Members and Federal Councilors . The SPÖ had lost the absolute majority in the National Council election, but retained the relative majority; it initially entered into a coalition with the FPÖ (see Federal Government Sinowatz , Vranitzky I ), from 1987 on with the ÖVP ( Vranitzky II etc. ).

On February 28, 1989, following the resignation of Leopold Gratz , who had been convicted of a false statement in the criminal case Udo Proksch , he was elected President of the National Council with 155 of 171 votes cast . He held this position until November 5, 1990; On this day, the president was re-elected after the National Council election in 1990 , in which Pöder had not run for reasons of age. On December 6, 1990, Mayor Helmut Zilk made him an honorary citizen of Vienna by resolution of the municipal council. He has received numerous awards .

In 1991 he resigned as union chairman. He then became president of the SPÖ-affiliated pensioners' association . In this position he was replaced by Karl Blecha in 1999 . In 2002 his wife Elsa, b. 1924.

Rudolf Pöder was buried on June 24, 2013 in the Hernalser Friedhof (17th district). Pöder's parents were buried in the same grave in 1942 and 1944, and his wife in 2002.

literature

  • Fritz Keller: In memory: Rudolf Pöder (1925–2013) , in: GdG Exklusiv here. The member magazine of the GdG-KMSfB , publishing house of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna, summer 2013, p. 16 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Poeder, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian trade unionist and politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2013
Place of death Vienna