Josef Peintner

Josef Peintner (born February 19, 1901 in Lustenau ; † August 30, 1979 there ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and businessman. From 1945 to 1949 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Peintner attended elementary school in Lustenau and then graduated from Lustenau commercial school from 1915 to 1917 . From 1917 to 1919 he worked as an intern at the Wolfurt community and in 1919 joined the Lustenau community, where he was employed until January 1934 and later as a civil servant, accountant and local administrator. He then became government commissioner and mayor of the market town of Lustenau in February 1934 and remained so until March 1938. After the Nazis came to power, he worked as an accountant at the Waibel sawmill from April 1938 to September 1938, before being arrested for political reasons in September 1938 and until April Was held prisoner in 1940. After his release he became an authorized signatory of the embroidery Böhi und Jussel in the spring of 1940 before he was obliged to serve in the Second World War from February 1943 to May 1945. After his return he was managing director of the company C. Lang & Co. in Altach from 1945 to 1947 and then took over the Hämmerle lace factory with his brother; In 1968 he handed the business over to his son.

Politics and functions

Peintner was a member of the Christian Social Party in the interwar period and from 1925 sports manager of the Catholic Rheingau. Between 1928 and 1935 he was head of the athletics committee of the Vorarlberg Football Association, from 1935 to 1938 he was state sports commissioner for Vorarlberg and a member of SC Austria Lustenau and the Lustenau gymnastics club. Peintner, on whose house two bomb attacks were carried out in January 1934, was government commissioner for Lustenau between February and November 1934 and then mayor from November 12, 1934 to March 12, 1938. He became a member of the Patriotic Front and was arrested the night of the Anschluss and taken into “ protective custody ” for 23 days . In September 1938 he was arrested again and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp for 20 months .

After the Second World War he became a member of the ÖVP and the Economic Association, where he worked as deputy chairman of the ÖVP local group Lustenau and as chairman of the Lustenau Economic Association and its district chairman of Feldkirch. He was also chairman of the Vorarlberg Lace Industry Association and represented the People's Party in the state parliament from December 11, 1945 to October 24, 1949. He was also a councilor in Lustenau.

Private

Peintner was the son of the gendarmerie officer Johann Peintner (1865-1949) from Obertilliach and his wife Franziska, née Jussel. He married Anna Kremmel (1902–1975) on October 4, 1926 and had a daughter and two sons, who were born in 1927, 1930 and 1936.

Awards

• Honorary President (1969), honorary ring bearer and honorary member of SC Austria Lustenau
• Julius Raab Medal of Honor
• Honorary member of the Lustenau gymnastics club
• Honorary member of the Lustenau volunteer fire brigade

Web links

• Biography of Josef Peintner (PDF; 84 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.