Hertha Firnberg
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Hertha Firnberg (18 September 1909 in Vienna – 14 February 1994 Vienna) was an Austrian politician.
Hertha Firnberg was born on 18 September 1909 as the eldest daughter of Anna, née Shamanek, and Dr. Josef Firnberg. She was born in the 18th district of Vienna, Währing. Later, the family moved to Niederrußbach in Lower Austria, where her father worked as a community doctor. After Hertha's birth, her mother gave up her job as a civil servant and gave birth to two brothers, and one sister.
After elementary school, she attended the middle school in Hernals Vienna. In 1926, she joined the Association of Socialist middle school students (VSM), in which she soon became deputy chairwoman. As a student at the University of Vienna, she was a member of the Association of Socialist Students (VSSt). In 1928, she joined the Social Democratic Workers Party, the leading party of the "Red Vienna". Together with her sister, she moved into a small housing estate in the 10th district, Favoriten. Trude ran a lending library in the house.
After two semesters, she changed to economic and social history. In 1930, she studied for a short time at the University of Freiburg. In February 1934, her political party was banned. In 1936, she received his doctorate with Alfons Dopsch in Vienna with a dissertation entitled "Wage workers and freelance work in the Middle Ages and at the beginning of modern times: A contribution to the history of agricultural wage labor in Germany." The work, published, in 1935, by Dopsch, identifies her as Hertha Hon-Firnberg. She was twice married briefly before the Second World War, both marriages ended in divorce.
As an active Social Democrat, Firnberg could not practice as a social researcher. She earned her living tutoring and as a freelance business journalist. From 1941 to 1945, she worked for Chic Parisienne, a leading fashion publisher; at the same time she learned bookkeeping and operational management.
After the end of the war, Hertha Firnberg received a position as librarian and assistant at the University of Vienna. In addition, she learned statistics and their application to the economic and social events. In addition, she worked part-time in an advertising and statistics office. When she started working in the Lower Austrian Chamber of Labor in 1948, this was only in the reconstruction. Firnberg then became Senior Secretary, Department Head of Statistics and Head of the Study Library.
