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Alois higher

Alois Höher (born December 20, 1862 in Harmanschlag , Lower Austria ; † July 10, 1941 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( CS ) as well as butcher, innkeeper and farmer. He was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Higher attended elementary school and served from 1883 to 1885 in the second genius - Regiment . He was traveling between the ages of 27 and 30 and in 1892 bought a butcher's shop with an attached restaurant and a larger farm in Harmanschlag. In his home parish, Höher became a local councilor in 1894, and later he was mayor of the community. In addition, he was active as a district school council from 1906, from 1900 as a member of the district road committee and from 1905 as a member of the state culture council. In 1906 he was one of the co-founders of the committee of the Lower Austrian Farmers' Union, acted as its deputy chairman between 1908 and 1919 and was then a member from 1919 to 1922.

Höher was elected to the Lower Austrian Landtag for the first time in 1897, to which he subsequently belonged from October 7, 1897 to May 11, 1921 (including the Provisional Landtag , the Common Landtag and, most recently, the Landtag of Lower Austria-Land ). Between 1902 and 1908 he was a member of the rural communities of Zwettl, Allentsteig , Groß-Gerungs , Weitra and between 1909 and 1915 a member of the rural communities of the judicial districts of Zwettl and Weitra. Most recently he was a member of the provisional state parliament between November 1918 and May 1919 and from November 1920 a member of the Lower Austria-Land Curia. Höher ran in the 1907 Reichsrat election in constituency 61 and prevailed with 87 percent in the first ballot. In the 1911 Reichsrat election, Höher was able to defend his mandate again in the first ballot with 80 percent. It belonged to the Imperial Council during the XI. and XII. Legislative period between June 17, 1907 and November 12, 1918 and was a member of the club of the Christian Social Association and the Christian Social Association of German MPs. As a member of the Reichsrat, Höher also belonged to the Provisional National Assembly between October 21, 1918 and February 16, 1919 after the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy .

literature

  • Biographical handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
  • Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 465
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907, p. 170
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 97

Web links

Commons : Alois Höher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matricula Online - Harmanschlag, Taufbuch, 1857–1899, page 46, entry no. 29, 2nd line
personal data
SURNAME Higher, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (CS) as well as butcher, innkeeper and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Harmanschlag , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1941
Place of death Harmanschlag , Lower Austria