Ruth Deutschmann

Benjamin Epp

Wien

2008-04-29

Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner

Nicole D´Incecco

1922

One of the amazing things in my life was having contact with political events from an early age. My father who was a baker, was a city councillor in Innsbruck for the Christian socialist party from 1922 to 1934. So, politics were discussed a lot in my family. Two or three years ago as I was going through some documents I found something bizarre: a fraction of the city council's call to vote for the elections in 1922 in Innsbruck. The Christian-Social party was also called the Tyrolean people's party. One of the slogans was to fight against Marxist-Leninist interest rate oppression. That's a very strange mix. In 1920 the city of Innsbruck had taken out a loan from the "Städtische Versicherung" (insurance company) in Vienna, who repeatedly raised the rates of interest in the following months. The "Städtische Versicherung" was based in socialist Vienna, it was the "red" insurance company That's how this bizarre slogan came to be. It is interesting to see the slogans used during the election campaign of that year, especially it being the year of my birth. As I remember the people concerned from when I was young it's really interesting to see the way they acted. I'd like to mention that many political people were often at our home.