Barnabas Finch
Anton Barnabas Fink (born June 10, 1867 in Andelsbuch ; † September 20, 1947 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CS ) and pastor. Fink was from 1902 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1930 a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament , from 1919 to 1923 and in 1929 a member of the regional council and from 1920 to 1923 as the second deputy governor of the state government . He is considered to be the creator of the Vorarlberg power plants and the Illwerke .
Live and act
Barnabas Fink was born on June 10, 1867 as the son of Alois Fink (* 1825) and Maria Barbara Albrecht (1837–1895) in a farming family in the Bregenzerwald community of Andelsbuch. He went to elementary school in his home parish and later, from 1880, he attended the Vincentinum in Brixen . In 1888 Fink decided to become a priest and entered the seminary in Brixen . The priestly ordination took place on July 3, 1892, the primary on July 12, 1892 in the parish church of Andelsbuch . First he worked as a chaplain until 1895 and from November 18, 1895 to August 1, 1934 as a pastor in Hittisau . In addition, from 1901 to 1941 he was dean of the Bregenzerwald deanery and clergyman .
In 1902 Barnabas Fink was elected for the first time as a member of the rural communities for the constituency Bregenz - Bregenzerwald in the 9th Vorarlberg state parliament. In the election to the 10th Vorarlberg Landtag in 1909 he was elected as a member of the general Bregenz - Bregenzerwald electoral class. In 1917 he was appointed by the state parliament as a consultant for the expansion of hydropower. He became a member of the Vorarlberg regional council for the first time on November 3, 1918, when he was appointed as a substitute member for regional council member Josef Kennerknecht . His departments were tourism and state power plants.
From 1918 until his resignation on June 10, 1930, he was a member of the state parliament. In addition, he was from June 17, 1919 to November 5, 1923 for the first time a member of the State Council. During this period of office he was from July 3, 1920, as the successor to Fritz Preiss, Second Deputy Governor in the state government. On June 4, 1929, he briefly succeeded the former Provincial Councilor Johann Josef Mittelberger in his office and was again a member of the state government until October 1, 1929. In 1932 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria by the Federal Government .
literature
- Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 , Vol. 1 (Lfg. 4, 1956), p. 317.
- Karl Heinz Burmeister u. a .: “ Andelsbuch ”, “ From the past and present of a Bregenzerwald community ”, Andelsbuch community, Andelsbuch 1980.
Web links
- Biography of Barnabas Fink (PDF; 107 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
Footnotes
- ^ Alois Niederstätter, Elisabeth Fischer: Vorarlberger Illwerke AG . Vorarlberger Illwerke AG, Bregenz 1996, p. 19.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fink, Barnabas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fink, Anton Barnabas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian clergyman and politician (CS), member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Andelsbuch |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1947 |
| Place of death | Andelsbuch |