Wilhelmine Moik was born 26 September 1894 in Vienna as one of a total of nine children of a toolmaker and a seamstress in the Viennese district Ottakring.

One day after her 18th birthday Moik joined the Social Democratic Labour Party (SDAP) and got her first job in the Domestic Workers Association.

[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In February 1934, after the unions were outlawed, Moik became deeply involved in the cause of her party and Socialist Workers' Assistance.

Moik wrebuilt the unions in Austria and worked for the concerns of women and social issues.

She is remembered through several structures, the residential complex Wilhelmine-Moik-Hof in Ottakring, the hall in the headquarters of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and the square Wilhelmine-Moik-Platz in Vienna-Leopoldstadt.