Franz Rauscher
- Born on: 30.7.1900
- Birthplace: Vienna (Wien), Austria
- Category: Diploma program
- Right of domicile: Wien (Wien), Austria
- Citizenship: Austria
The English version is based on a translation by Artificial Intelligence. The authentic version is the German version.
Franz Rauscher had the same first and last name as his father, who worked for the Austrian Federal Railways.
After attending elementary, secondary, and trade school, Franz Rauscher Jr. was enrolled as a special listener at the University for World Trade in the summer semester of 1938. Whether he was able to participate in any courses here is unproven. Because right after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in Austria, he was arrested by the National Socialist authorities. He had already been persecuted for political reasons by the previous regime as a confessing Social Democrat: In the aftermath of the civil war in February 1934, Rauscher was arrested by the organs of the Austrofascist 'Ständeregime' and sentenced to imprisonment, which he had to serve in the so-called detention camp Wöllersdorf.
Between 1939 and 1945, Franz Rauscher was interned in the concentration camps Buchenwald (near Weimar) and Majdanek (near Lublin) by the National Socialists.
After World War II, Rauscher participated in various ways in the reconstruction of Austria. He was among the founding members of the Social Austrian Party. Between December 1945 and November 1949, he sat for the SPÖ in the National Council and served as its Central Secretary in 1945/46. Additionally, he was an official of the railway workers' union and the consumer cooperatives. Finally, he served as Undersecretary for Security, Administration, Planning, and Use of Public Assets between September 29 and December 20, 1945, as well as Secretary of State in the Federal Ministry for Asset Security and Economic Planning from March 28, 1946, to January 11, 1947. Furthermore, Rauscher led the Austrian Society and Economic Museum, founded in 1924 by the renowned economist Otto Neurath, and was a member of the supervisory board of the Non-Profit Single and Multi-Family Housing Cooperative.
Franz Rauscher passed away on March 11, 1988, in Vienna.
Author: Johannes Koll
Source material
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Universitätsarchiv, Studierendenkarteikarte.
Republik Österreich/Parlament: Wer ist Wer – Biografie von Franz Rauscher, http://www.parlament.gv.at/WWER/PAD_01558/index.shtml [4. Oktober 2019].
Wien Geschichte Wiki: Franz Rauscher, http://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Franz_Rauscher [4. Oktober 2019].