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Jakob Reumann (31 December 1853 in

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– 29 July 1925 in

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) was an

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ic politician and the first social democratic

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from 1919 to 1923.

Biography

On the Hainfeld Party Convention of 1888/1889, Jakob Reumann was designated first secretary of the newly founded Social Democratic Party, which then united social democrats of the whole multinational Austrian part of Austria-Hungary. From 1900, he has been elected member of Vienna's ''Gemeinderat'' (city parliament), from 1907 member of the Austrian ''Reichsrat'' (parliament). In 1917 city councillor, in 1918 vice-mayor, he was elected mayor on 21 May 1919, the first social democratic mayor in the history of Vienna. 1918/1919 he was also a member of the Provisional National Council of German Austria (''Provisorische Nationalversammlung für Deutschösterreich''). In 1922, as mayor he became ''Landeshauptmann'' (governor) of the new State of Vienna. The same year saw the opening of

Feuerhalle Simmering Feuerhalle Simmering is a crematorium with attached urn burial ground in the Simmering (Vienna), Simmering district of Vienna, Austria. It lies at the end of an alley, directly opposite Vienna Central Cemetery's main gate. Description Opened on ...

, the first crematorium in Austria. Reumann had to defend this decision at the

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as he had granted building permission for the crematorium against the order of a federal minister from the Christian Social Party. He was the president of the

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in 1920s. In 1923, the ''Gemeinderat'' concluded on the first large housing programme to build 25,000 flats within five years. On 13 November 1923 Jakob Reumann stepped down as mayor and was made honorary citizen of Vienna. His ashes are buried at

in Vienna. A few weeks after his death in 1925, in the tenth district, Favoriten, a workers' district where Reumann had his personal roots, a square was named '' Reumannplatz''. This is today the southern terminal of underground line no. 1 and the site of attractive '' Amalienbad'' (Amalia Spa).

References

1853 births 1925 deaths Politicians from Vienna Social Democratic Party of Austria politicians Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1907–1911) Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1911–1918) Members of the Provisional National Assembly Presidents of the Austrian Federal Council Members of the Federal Council (Austria) Mayors of Vienna Cooperative organizers Burials at Feuerhalle Simmering {{Austria-mayor-stub