Rudolf Wehrl

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Rudolf Wehrl (born December 27, 1903 in Unterhöflein , municipality of Höflein an der Hohen Wand , † August 31, 1965 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Rudolf Wehrl attended elementary school in Dunkelstein , Neunkirchen and Willendorf and worked as a guardian boy alongside the school with farmers. From 1918 - at the age of 15 - he worked as a miner in the Grünbach coal mine , initially as an apprentice and cleaner, then as a promoter, then as a cutter. In 1923 he lost this job and worked as a miner in Gaming in the Scheibbs district for a year . Then he moved to Wiener Neustadt through his future wife Anna and worked as a road worker for the federal road administration on the asphalting of Neunkirchner Strasse . In 1924 he went to the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik as an unskilled worker . Wehrl married in 1925 and his son Kurt was born in the same year. He lived with his wife and child and mother-in-law in poor conditions in a basement apartment. From 1929 he worked - with interruptions due to recessions - until 1944 at Bickford & Co. in Wiener Neustadt, a zip fastener factory, as a textile worker, initially as a laborer, then as a machine operator. Until 1934 he was a works council there.

Awards

  • 1963 honorary citizen of Wiener Neustadt

politics

After the Second World War, Wehrl was mayor of Wiener Neustadt from 1945 to 1965. He was regional chairman of the socialist association of community representatives. He represented the SPÖ between June 4, 1959 and the day of his death in the Lower Austrian state parliament and was also the second president of the state parliament from November 19, 1964.

On April 2, 1945, the 5th Guards Tank Corps of the Soviets took the city of Wiener Neustadt. On April 3, Rudolf Wehrl, a worker at Bickford & Co., was appointed provisional mayor by the Soviet city commandant Major Sutskow. On April 5, he received confirmation from the Soviet headquarters that Rudolf Wehrl is mayor of Wiener Neustadt and has the right to go on the street at any time of the day or night. Days later, Wehrl visited the former State Chancellor Karl Renner at Eichbüchl Castle . At the end of the war, a rally took place on May 9, 1945 on Hauptplatz, where the Soviet city commander, Mayor Rudolf Wehrl, the three vice mayors Karl Miksch (SPÖ), Hans Goldschmidt (ÖVP), and Karl Hofer (KPÖ) gave speeches.

literature

  • Walter Edelbauer : Wiener Neustadt. Rebuilding. Mayor Rudolf Wehrl. 1945 - 1965. Wiener Neustadt 1991, 168 pages.
  • Lower Austria Landtag Directorate (ed.): Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Landtag and the Lower Austrian provincial government 1921–2000 (= Lower Austria publications. Volume 128). Lower Austria Landtag Directorate , St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2 .

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Wehrl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Edelbauer, see literature
personal data
SURNAME Wehrl, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterhöflein , municipality of Höflein on the Hohe Wand
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1965
Place of death Wiener Neustadt