100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2010 - 55 Euro Cent

Grete Rehor, who became the first Minister of Political History in Austria, was born on June 30, 1910 in Vienna. After elementary school, she attended public school and then a teacher's seminar; However, she was unable to realize her desire to become a teacher because of the difficult times after the war. As a textile worker she made it possible to attend a commercial school as well as numerous socio-political evening classes, where she got the equipment for her later activities. Her union work began in 1927, as a secretary in the Central Association of Christian Textile Workers in Austria. As a result, from 1928 to 1938, Grete Rehor was the first woman on the Youth Advisory Board of the Vienna Chamber of Labor and had a significant influence on the actions "Youth at Work", "Youth in Need" and "Youth in Work". In 1935 she married Karl Rehor, who, together with the later Chancellor Josef Klaus, founded the Christian youth movement "Junge Front im Arbeiterbund". From 1943 - her husband fell as a soldier in Stalingrad - was Grete Rehor war widow and single mother of a daughter. In 1945, shortly after the end of the war, the Austrian Trade Union Confederation was founded, in which Grete Rehor laid the foundation for her political career. As federal chairwoman of the FCG in the Textile, Garment and Leatherworkers' Union, no company was too far away to maintain contact with all trade unionists under the most difficult conditions. In the women's section of the ÖGB, she served as a deputy chairwoman, and as a member of the federal executive committee, she worked intensively to create a unified trade union federation. In 1949 she was nominated by the ÖVP as the first woman for the largest district of Vienna; until 1970, she fulfilled her responsibilities as a member of the National Council. When the ÖVP won the absolute majority in March 1966 and formed an exclusive government, Grete Rehor became the first Federal Minister of the Republic of Austria. "It is important and right for women to reach the highest positions. This corresponds not only to the population and employment structure, but also to the voter structure, "she said in one of her first interviews. During her term of office, Grete Rehor set numerous milestones for the workers, and the social budget rose an unbelievable 66 percent from 1965 to 1970! More than a hundred social laws passed during her tenure earned her the well-deserved nickname "Black Communist" - and even after her time as a minister, she was involved in many social areas into old age. On January 28, 1987, the highly respected politician died; The Viennese Grete Rehor Park is still reminiscent of this great Austrian personality.