Therese Ammon

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Therese Ammon (born August 1, 1877 in Vienna ; died 1944 in the Theresienstadt ghetto or in the Buchenwald concentration camp ) was an Austrian seamstress , politician of the Austrian Social Democratic Workers' Party and from 1927 to 1934 a member of the Vienna City Council .

Life

Therese Ammon grew up in a Viennese working-class family. At the age of 14 she began an apprenticeship as a seamstress. At the age of 16, according to her own account, she got in touch with the social democratic movement through a friend and “got acquainted with the idea of ​​socialism through good books.” In 1912 she became the cashier of the social democratic women's organization. During the First World War , she worked as a researcher for her party's aid campaign, from 1918 as “chairwoman of women” and in the district council of Leopoldstadt . In 1927 she was elected councilor in Vienna and remained so until 1934. After the social democracy was banned and the Austro-fascist dictatorship was established under Dollfuss , Ammon was arrested for the first time in February / March 1934 (so-called "detention").

Ammon was one of the people who were persecuted in Austria from 1933 to 1945 because of their resistance to National Socialism . After the annexation of Austria she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto (according to Kurt Bauer, to Buchenwald) and murdered in 1944.

Since March 11, 1988, a memorial plaque for local councilors who were murdered by the National Socialists has been commemorating Therese Ammon in the meeting room of the municipal council in the Vienna City Hall .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The social democratic councilors of Vienna. Therese Amonn (2nd district, Leopoldstadt) . In: The dissatisfied. An independent weekly for all women . Volume 10, No. 23, June 11, 1932. ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online, Austrian National Library
  2. ↑ a b Therese Ammon. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
  3. ^ The workers of Vienna. a social democratic city guide , Verlag Jugend & Volk, Berlin / Vienna 1988, ISBN 978-3-224-10699-4 , p. 55
  4. ↑ Short biographies of known left detainees 1933–1938. Kurt Bauer Geschichte, p. 7 (pdf) Status: August 31, 2012
  5. ↑ City Hall. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
personal data
SURNAME Ammon, Therese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1944
Place of death Buchenwald concentration camp or Theresienstadt concentration camp