Anton Benya
Anton Benya ( born October 8, 1912 in Vienna, † December 5, 2001 ) was an Austrian trade unionist and politician ( SPÖ).
Life
Benya attended elementary and grammar school in Vienna and began in 1926 an apprenticeship as an electrician. He joined the Social Democratic Party and became active in the Free Trade Unions, which were dissolved in 1934 due to the Austro-fascist seizure of power after the Civil War. Because of these now prohibited activity Benya was imprisoned twice (1934 and 1937 ). After the war he was a functionary of the newly formed Austrian Trade Union Federation ( OGB ) and still occurred in 1945, the union metal mining energy.
In 1948 he was one of the senior OGB secretaries, vice-president in 1959 and finally in 1963 president of the Federation of Trade Unions. He held until 1987, this influential ministry and was - as his ÖVP opponent Erwin Altenburger and Rudolf Sallinger - a major proponent of social partnership, which was crucial for Austria's political and economic development. It is known, named after Benya " Benya " formula for wage determination, after the wage increase on inflation and productivity increase should orient themselves.
Between 1956 and 1986, Benya Member of Parliament and from 1971 to 1986 the longest-serving First National President of the Republic of Austria. During this time he was next to Bruno Kreisky, who led the Social Democratic Party - one-party government since 1970, as the most important politician of the Socialist Party. As such, he tried - along with Kreisky - to achieve reconciliation between the Social Democratic workers on the one hand and the Catholic Church on the other hand, where the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Franz König, came to meet him far.
Benya was also president of the SK Rapid Wien and from 1993 its Honorary President. Regarding this function, but also with respect to those of the long-time president of the supervisory board of the company consumer Austria was noisy occasionally criticisms of his economic management competence.
In honor of Anton Benya is administered by the Chamber of Labour Vienna Anton- Benya - Park in Wieden and Anton Benya house in the Arndt 65-67 ( Meidling ) were named.
His many presidencies (including Rapid Vienna, Austrian Trade Union Federation, the National Council) earned him the nickname " the president" a.
He is buried in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 C, Number 58 A).