Vinzenz Böröcz

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Vinzenz Böröcz (born December 22, 1915 in Breitenbrunn ; † October 30, 1994 in Eisenstadt ) was an Austrian politician ( KPÖ ) and printer. Böröcz was a member of the provisional state committee and from 1953 to 1956 a member of the Burgenland state parliament and long-time state party chairman of the KPÖ.

Böröcz was born as the son of master carpenter Vinzenz Böröcz from Breitenbrunn and attended elementary school in Breitenbrunn and then secondary school in Neusiedl am See. He completed an apprenticeship as a printer and was already a member of the SAJ during his apprenticeship. In February 1934 he joined the KPÖ, in 1935 he was imprisoned for six months. He was under the supervision of the Gestapo from March 1938 and was temporarily detained in autumn 1938. On February 1, 1940, Böröcz was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment and loss of military status for preparation for high treason, but was drafted to a probation unit on January 1, 1943.

Böröcz returned from military service in June 1945 and was employed as a secretary in the Burgenland agricultural and forest workers' union. In September 1945 Böröcz was a delegate of the KPÖ at the first national conference in Vienna and between 1945 and 1950 was a city councilor in Eisenstadt. Between October 1, 1945 and January 4, 1946, he was a member of the provisional state committee and between March 19, 1953 and June 11, 1956, he was the only communist representative in the Burgenland state parliament was.

Böröcz was a member of the Chamber of Labor in Burgenland between 1948 and 1949 and the regional chairman of the KPÖ from 1946 to 1981. At the same time, Böröcz was a member of the Central Committee of the KPÖ from 1946 to 1987. In 1993 he was one of the founding members of the Alfred Klahr Society , of which he was a member of the board until his death.

Kaisersteinbruch

On May 26, 1993, former prisoners of war from France visited Kaisersteinbruch, the camp cemetery, the area of ​​the (demolished) barracks of the prisoner- of- war camp Kaisersteinbruch STALAG XVII A, celebrated a joint service, which ended in the museum . Mr. Böröcz was present with his sons Erich and Bruno, he also told about the Kaisersteinbruch past of part of his family.

A small excerpt:

My grandfather Ladislaus Böröcz, as I always heard later, came to Breitenbrunn as a young man from Hedgö (Hegykö) in Hungary. He worked for the pastor of Breitenbrunn for many years. Later, when my grandfather had already died, I learned that two of my grandfather's brothers, Paul and Stephan, who had also come from the other side of Lake Neusiedl, had settled in Kaisersteinbruch.

literature

  • Vinzenz Böröcz: Struggle for land and freedom. Where the land belonged to the Esterházys (= biographical texts on the history of the Austrian labor movement. 6). Globus-Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85364-220-9 .
  • 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. ↑ Vinzenz Böröcz wrote a report on this, to be read in: Helmuth Furch Hrsg., Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch No. 29 from October 1993.
  2. ↑ Helmuth Furch 2002, Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch Volume 1 , 2004, Volume 2. Index Böröcz Vinzenz, Eduard, Johann, Karl, Anhalt camp Kaisersteinbruch, POW camp Kaisersteinbruch, Second World War.
personal data
SURNAME Böröcz, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (KPÖ), member of the state parliament in Burgenland
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitenbrunn (Burgenland)
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1994
Place of death Eisenstadt