Stefan Billes

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Cemetery of the former prisoner of war camp Kaisersteinbruch , front left. Stefan Billes, right Hans Anthofer , with Klara Köttner-Benigni behind , Walter Benigni , June 2000

Stefan Billes (born December 11, 1909 in Kleinhöflein in Burgenland ; † January 27, 2002 ) was an Austrian politician of the SPÖ . Billes was a member of the Burgenland state parliament and regional councilor in the Burgenland state government.

Life

Billes was born the son of the farm laborer Stefan Billes from Kleinhöflein. His father died in 1917 in a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. Billes attended the elementary school in Kleinhöflein and was then a construction worker and construction worker. In 1930 he was elected local chairman of the SJ-Eisenstadt and in 1932 became its district chairman. In addition, from 1933 he worked as an editor of the "Burgenland Freedom" .

Detention camp Wöllersdorf

Billes, who was also the national leader of the Red Falcons between 1930 and 1934 , was imprisoned in the course of the Austrian Civil War in 1934 and detained for 42 days by the police. In 1936 he was interned for three months in the Wöllersdorf detention center .

Dachau concentration camp

After coming to power of the Nazis Billes was on 1 April 1938 at the wake of the so-called celebrities transport in the Dachau concentration camp brought, where he remained imprisoned to 20 September 1938th He then worked as a construction clerk from 1938 to 1945 and worked in Vienna, in occupied territories of the Czech Republic, the Soviet Union and Poland, and most recently in Vorarlberg.

After the Second World War, between 1945 and 1948, Billes was the first state party secretary of the SPÖ, and from 1945 to 1968 he was also the regional chairman of Kinderfreunde . He was a union member, worked from 1948 to 1956 as state secretary of the ÖGB , was a member of the board of the Chamber of Labor from 1959 and from 1968 to 1983 regional chairman of the SPÖ pensioners' association . In addition, Billes held the office of chairman of the regional health insurance fund between 1948 and 1956 .

Billes was a member of the Burgenland Landtag between November 4, 1949 and May 5, 1964 and between April 17, 1964 and May 26, 1964. In addition, from June 22, 1965 to June 28, 1966, he was regional councilor in the regional governments Wagner I , Wagner II , Lentsch and Bögl .

Private

Billes was married and had a son and a daughter. He was buried in Eisenstadt .

Awards

literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Minutes of the funeral session of the Burgenland Parliament on January 31, 2002
  2. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)