Willi Aberer

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Willi Aberer (born June 24, 1927 in Mitlödi ; † September 8, 2007 in Hohenems ) was an Austrian politician ( Austrian People's Party ). Aberer was regional chairman of the Vorarlberg Seniors' Union between January 1, 1989 and March 2007, and a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1969 to 1991 .

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Willi Aberer was born on June 24, 1927 as the son of the hand printer Fidel Aberer, who emigrated from Austria in 1925, and his wife Anna in Mitlödi in the Swiss canton of Glarus . Since the family returned to their hometown Hohenems in Vorarlberg in 1932 , Aberer was able to attend elementary and secondary school there. From 1941 to 1944 he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at MB Neumann's Söhne and passed his final exams on February 5, 1944 at their successor, Textilwerke Josef Otten. On June 8, 1944, at the age of seventeen, he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Erpfendorf . From September 10, 1944, he had to do military service, where he ended up in American captivity , from which he returned home in May 1945.

On October 15, 1945, Willi Aberer entered the administrative service of his home town of Hohenems and on December 1, 1945, became a member of the ÖVP's Workers' Association . Just one year later, in 1946, he became a member of the community workers' union , and in 1947 a member of the national management of this union. From May 1, 1948, Aberer worked as an accountant for the municipality of Hohenems, and two years later, on June 1, 1950, he was appointed head of finance and asset management. From 1961 to 1978 he was then deputy country chairman of the union of community workers before he was elected country chairman in 1978. When Hohenems was raised to town in 1983, Aberer was appointed city treasurer in the young township .

In the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1969 , Willi Aberer was elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament for the ÖVP in the Dornbirn constituency. From 1974 to 1989 he was first deputy club chairman of the ÖVP, from 1989 to 1990 club chairman and from May 9, 1990 until his voluntary resignation from the state parliament on January 30, 1991 1st vice-president of the state parliament.

Willi Aberer has received numerous awards for his work in regional politics, the trade union and in Vorarlberg sport, for example the Gold Medal for Services in Vorarlberg in 1979, the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria in 1989 and the Silver Honorary badge of the state of Vorarlberg in 1995, as honorary president of the Vorarlberg football association in 1997 and as honorary chairman of the union of municipal employees in 1999.

Willi Aberer died on September 8, 2007 at the age of 80 in his hometown of Hohenems.

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Individual evidence

  1. Khol: "Deep grief over the loss of a good friend" . Article on Vorarlberg Online from September 10, 2007.