Wilhelmine Moik

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Wilhelmine Moik as a councilor in Vienna in 1932

Wilhelmine Moik (born September 26, 1894 in Vienna , † January 12, 1970 in Bad Vöslau , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Wilhelmine Moik grew up as one of seven children of a toolmaker and a tailor in the Ottakring district of Vienna . In 1911, at the age of 17, she had to spend several months in sanatoriums as a result of acute lung catarrh and was only now learning to read. Just one day after her 18th birthday, on September 27, 1912, she joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP). In 1916 she worked for Anna Boschek , the first female union member in parliament, and subsequently became involved in the interests of women in the union and society. In 1927 she was elected women's secretary for the Federation of Free Trade Unions.

From 1932 to 1934 Moik was a member of the SDAP in the Vienna municipal council and also worked closely with the Chamber of Labor and the head of the women's department there, Käthe Leichter , who was murdered in Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1942 .

After the SDAP was banned in February 1934, Moik got involved in the underground for the concerns of her party and the Socialist Workers' Aid, through whose channels she provided illegal Social Democrats with money, food and clothing. Because of her activities Moik was arrested again and again by the police in the corporate state , most recently in July 1938 by the secret state police . In the same year the People's Court met for the first time in Austria. Wilhelmine was Moik to two years prison sentenced. After her release in 1941, she found work as a stenographer for a Vienna insurance company.

After the war, in November 1945, Moik was elected to the National Council as a member of the SPÖ , to which she was a member from December 1945 to December 1962. Here she was particularly committed to women's concerns, but also to social issues. The General Social Insurance Act in 1955 and, two years later, in 1957, the Maternity Protection Act go back to Moik's initiatives. From 1948 to 1963 she was also the chairwoman of the Vienna SPÖ women.

Wilhelmine Moik, who never married and also had no children, died in Bad Vöslau at the age of 75.

Honors

literature

  • Agnes Broessler: Wilhelmine Moik. A life for union politics . Verlag des ÖGB, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7035-1086-2

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personal data
SURNAME Moik, Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SDAP, SPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1970
Place of death Bad Vöslau , Lower Austria