Memorial plaque for Bruno Kreisky

„So I am, if you like, a semi-skilled labourer at the textile factory.“
- Bruno Kreisky

On 25 February 2023, a memorial plaque to Bruno Kreisky was unveiled in Jadersdorf in the municipality of Gitschtal in Carinthia. The initiative for this came from the Renner Institute Carinthia in cooperation with the Kreisky Forum.

After all socialist organisations were banned in February 1934, Kreisky founded the „Revolutionary Socialist Youth“, for which he was sentenced to several years in prison for high treason in the sensational „Socialist Trial“. In 1936, Kreisky was dismissed from university and released on condition that he leave Vienna.

His father was involved with a small textile factory in Jadersdorf/Gitschtal and provided his son Bruno with accommodation and a job there. He spent several months in Jadersdorf from 1936 to 1937. Bruno Kreisky also mentioned this stay in his biography: „So I am, if you like, a semi-skilled labourer at the textile factory.“
The building still exists today and is run by the van den Boogaard family as the holiday home „The Little Paradise“.

Margit Schmidt, Bruno Kreisky's personal secretary for many years and the first general secretary of the Forum for International Dialogue, which was founded after his death, took part in the ceremonial unveiling of the memorial plaque on behalf of the Kreisky Forum.