Rudolf Sarközi

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Rudolf Sarközi (2013)

Rudolf Sarközi (born November 11, 1944 in the Lackenbach detention camp ; † March 12, 2016 ) was a representative of the Austrian Roma as chairman of the Cultural Association of Austrian Roma .

Life

Rudolf Sarközi was born as the son of a Burgenland Roma and a Viennese Sinto in the National Socialist "Gypsy detention camp" in Lackenbach . "Due to poverty and racial exclusion", he too, as he later explained, "remained almost excluded from education". He attended the Unterschützen elementary school in Burgenland . As a " gypsy " he did not get an apprenticeship and worked as an unskilled worker in civil engineering and as a fitter helper for a water and heating installation company.

After the marriage, Sarközi moved with his wife Helga and their son Andreas to Vienna in 1964, where he worked for an electrical and lightning protection company after his military service.

1981 Sarközi was from the city of Vienna in urban fleet hired as a driver, but was since July 1997 because of his activities in the interest of the Roma and Sinti on leave . In 2005 he retired.

Political activity

Sarközi joined, as he stated, the socialist movement, that is, he joined the SPÖ . After he was one of the founders of an association of the Burgenland Roma ("Roma Association") and another association had been founded in Vienna, he founded the Cultural Association of Austrian Roma in 1991 , of which he was chairman from then on. A petition by the cultural association, which was also supported by the Roma association in Oberwart, led to a motion for a resolution from all four parties represented in parliament at the time, which was unanimously adopted and ultimately brought Austria's Roma Austria to be recognized as an ethnic group in December 1993. "Roma" was not meant in the sense of a restriction to the Burgenland Roma, but "generic term for the various autochthonous subgroups living in Austria" (Sarközi) of the overall minority. Since 1995 he has been chairman of the "National Advisory Board" of the Austrian Roma minority in the Federal Chancellery. From 2001 to 2010 he was a district councilor in the 19th district of Vienna, making him the first Rome to be elected to a political office in Austria.

On June 3, 1996, the Roma Documentation and Information Center founded by Rudolf Sarközi was opened by Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , Mayor Michael Häupl and then Federal President Thomas Klestil. It is located in the 19th district of Vienna .

Sarközi took part in the permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum . On November 24, 1996, the International Council to Commemorate the Extermination of the Roma proclaimed August 2 as the day of commemoration of the genocide of European Roma. Since 1997 he has participated in the annual commemoration of the council, of which he was also a member.

After the murder of four Roma by the bomb bomber Franz Fuchs in Oberwart had Sarközi the Roma minority in Austria increasingly represented at many events. In June 1995 he was one of the founders of the Roma Fund , which was set up in response to the attack and sees its task as improving the education and training situation of the Austrian Roma. Sarközi was the chairman of the administrative committee.

Awards (excerpt)

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Sarközi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Sarközi is dead. In: orf.at. ORF , March 14, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ This and other information, unless otherwise stated: Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Change, Innsbruck 2015, here: p. 382.
  3. ^ Rudolf Sarközi, Being in Rome in Austria, in: Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Transition, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 97–104, here: p. 98.
  4. ↑ a b c Rudolf Sarközi, Being in Rome in Austria, in: Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Change, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 97–104, here: p. 99.
  5. ^ Gerhard Baumgartner, Florian Freund : Roma politics in Austria. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: kv-roma.at. P. 16f. Accessed December 16, 2008 (PDF; 876 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kv-roma.at
  6. ^ Rudolf Sarközi, Being in Rome in Austria, in: Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Change, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 97-104, here: p. 100.
  7. ^ Rudolf Sarközi, Being in Rome in Austria, in: Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Transition, Innsbruck 2015, pp. 97-104, here: p. 101.
  8. ↑ Erika Thurner / Elisabeth Hussl / Beate Eder-Jordan (eds.), Roma and Travelers. Identities in Change, Innsbruck 2015, here: p. 382.
  9. ↑ Commander's Cross for Rudolf Sarközi. In: orf.at. ORF , November 15, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Sarközi, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political activist, representative of the Austrian Roma
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lackenbach gypsy detention camp
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2016