Jakob Reumann

Jakob Reumann ( born December 31, 1853 in Vienna, † July 29, 1925 in Klagenfurt ) was a social- democratic politician, mayor of Vienna and the first governor of the new province of Vienna.

Life

The illegitimate son of a doctor and a worker was first sculptor apprentice, then Drechsler in a meerschaum pipe factory and founded here the first union of this division. After the founding of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Austria on the Hainfelder Party 1888/89 he became the first secretary of the new party and editor of the on July 12, 1889 appearing party organ, the Arbeiter-Zeitung.

On the Verbandstag the workers' acquisition and cooperative economy on September 3, 1904, he participated as editor of the association's journal worker cooperative. He, he proposed to set up a commission to prepare the establishment of the Wholesale Society of Consumers' Societies of Austria. This happened in 1905 and the GÖC was founded.

From 1900 member of the Vienna City Council, after the introduction of universal and equal male suffrage from 1907 Member of the Austrian Imperial Council, from 1917, the city council of Vienna, he took over after the proclamation of the republic in 1918 the presidency of the provisional council of Vienna and was first deputy mayor, according to the local council elections of May 4, 1919 at May 21, 1919 the first social democratic mayor of Vienna. As a German imperial parliaments he was from October 22, 1918 to February 16, 1919 Member of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria.

In came into force on November 10, 1920 Federal Constitution Vienna was declared in addition to its function as a municipality in the federal state; Reumann was now Governor ( the local council and parliament ). He was sent by the Viennese state parliament in the Federal Council and became its first chairman ( until 1921 ). With Lower Austria country such as the Vienna surrounding province was temporarily called without the city of Vienna, he negotiated the so-called law of separation, in which it was mainly about the division of buildings and properties to the two new countries. It came into force with which Vienna Lower Austria became independent and completely autonomous on 1 January 1922.

Reumann as mayor was largely responsible for the social reform local politics of the ruling with a clear absolute majority Vienna Social Democrats. Reforms in "Red Vienna" related primarily to the urban housing and tenant protection, the health and welfare system as well as the educational and recreational activities. Under his reign the first major housing program in 1923 decided which provided for the construction of 25,000 public housing within five years.

Multiple got the Social Reumann in conflict with the bourgeois federal governments of the time. In particular, at the premiere of the scandalous " dance " by Arthur Schnitzler at the German National Theatre in Vienna on 1 February 1921. The Christian Socialist Interior Minister Egon gloss "requested " Reumann to review the performance permit is issued again, and as Reumann clung to his determination he was asked by the federal government to the Constitutional Court under indictment, but acquitted because the " request " had shown no legally binding transfer.

The second procedure before the Constitutional Court against Reumann took place one year later, when Reumann had received a directive from the Minister Richard Schmitz the establishment of a crematorium in Vienna, the fire hall Simmering approved. Again was an acquittal: Although the invitation made to Reumann transfer had been this time correctly, but was the Governor inferior to a " excusable error of law ", as it was assumed due to the abundant complex legal assume that we are dealing with the funeral services to an autonomous state matter, in the Minister could give any instructions.

On November 13, 1923 Reumann resigned as mayor of Vienna and was made an honorary citizen of Vienna. In the Bundesrat, which he joined in 1920, he became chairman again in 1924 and held this office until his death.

Reumann died in 1925 in Klagenfurt. His ashes were buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the forecourt of the December 1922 opened by him fire hall Simmering. Reumanns home district - - A few weeks after his death, the citizens in the Viennese working-class district favorites was in Reumannplatz renamed. Also in 1926, finished council Reumannhof was named after him.