Armed Forces pensioners are threatened with eviction from their apartments! For retirement, the former company apartments on General-Albori-Strasse in Elsbethen were only rented out for a limited period of three years. Many of these contracts are about to expire. An uncertain future awaits the officials at rest.
In 2008 everything changed. Since then, there has only been the option for retired Bundesheer employees to stay in their former official residence for a limited period of time – where their relationships were formed and their children grew up. Horst Georg S. has lived on General-Albori-Strasse in Elsbethen. He was vice lieutenant until 2018, since then the civil servant has retired. S. has to leave his apartment in July. Shouldn’t another miracle happen. “After I retired, my contract was extended once by three years. All letters so far, every attempt at an extension, all unsuccessful.” Fear of moving out and looking for an apartmentSome army pensioners in the settlement are like S. Six tenants spoke to the “Krone”. Some of them are plagued by health, they are all facing the end of their contract in the next few months – and being thrown out. “It’s the uncertainty that scares us,” says Christine S., whose ailing husband was in the army. “For us civil servants in peace, that’s teasing,” explains Josef S., who is already looking for an apartment with his wife Dagmar. There is simply no other, comparable apartment for them. “The free and also the subsidized housing market is practically dead for pensioners,” says Horst Georg S. In Elsbethen, no subsidized apartments were completed or handed over in 2021. In other places and in the neighboring city of Salzburg, as Elsbetheners, they would not be entitled to rent a subsidized apartment. All that remains for the army pensioners is that their former employer will change their minds. In their case, a department in the Ministry of Defense is responsible. A “Krone” request has so far remained unanswered. Christine S. received a letter from there in the fall – she did not have to worry about her future. There is still an emergency room in the Walser barracks, according to sources in Vienna.
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