Rudolfine Fleischner

Rudolfine Fleischner (born October 20, 1873 in Hungarian Ostrava , Crown Land of Moravia , Austria-Hungary , † September 17, 1923 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ) and educator .

life and career

Rudolfine Fleischner was born on October 20, 1873 as the daughter of a country school teacher in the town of Hungarian-Ostrava, part of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Land of Moravia. Since the financial situation of her extended family was always tense, Fleischner had to earn her own living at the age of 13. So she moved to Vienna, where she worked as a domestic help and nanny. In addition to her professional activity, she completed training as an educator with her older sister and later worked as such and as a private teacher. As early as the 1890s, Fleischner, who married in 1901, was involved in the association of homeworkers. Her actual sphere of activity was then in the political women's organization. As a co-founder of the social democratic women's organization Alsergrund , the 9th district of Vienna , her agitational skills contributed to making her its chairwoman in 1915.

As a women’s politician , she campaigned above all for political training and for equal rights for women, which sometimes proved helpful with the introduction of women's suffrage in 1918. Fleischner preferred to work in the so-called Lichtental , the proletarian district of the Alsergrund , which is otherwise inhabited by the middle class. In the years 1919 to 1923, Fleischner appeared as a councilor in Vienna . As a member of the SDAPDÖ , she represented the 9th district of Vienna, part of the 1st electoral period of the Vienna State Parliament and Vienna City Council and one of the first women in Austria to hold a higher political position. In addition to her work as a women’s politician, Fleischner was also active in welfare and youth welfare. Among other things, she founded the Alsergrund local group of children's friends . At various women's conferences and the women's plenary meetings of her party, she campaigned for her politically active comrades to provide information to professional workers in the political field.

She was also active as a journalist and wrote for the Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung . In addition, she carried out the magazines Volksbühne and Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung herself . Fleischner, who was considered a talented speaker at party meetings and who campaigned for the political, trade union and cooperative movement within the Social Democratic Party, died in Vienna on September 17, 1923, around a month before her 50th birthday.

Web links

• Rudolfine Fleischner in the database Women in Motion 1848–1938 of the Austrian National Library

literature

• Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , pp. 850–851.
• Paul Pasteur : Femmes dans le Mouvement Ouvrier Autrichien 1918-34 . Dissertation, Rouen 1986.
• Contribution. In: Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung . September 18, 1923.
• Contribution. In: Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung . September 22, 1923.
• Contribution. In: Arbeiterinnen-Zeitung . October 2, 1923.
• Contribution. In: The interesting sheet . 4th October 1923.
• Contribution. In: The woman: Social democratic monthly for politics, economics, women's issues, literature . Issue 11. 1933.
• Contribution. In: Wiener Zeitung . September 18, 1923.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of homeworkers. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)