Alois Hammer

Alois Hammer (born September 27, 1907 in Vienna , † May 27, 1983 in Lustenau ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and businessman. From 1954 to 1964 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After attending primary school, Alois Hammer completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in the Lower Austrian town of St. Pölten and subsequently worked as a bookbinder in Spitz an der Donau , Bruck an der Mur , Baden near Vienna , Melk , Pöggstall , Gmunden , Zistersdorf and also active in Switzerland . In 1932 he started his own business as a bookbinder in Lustenau and was obliged to do military service and border guards from 1940 to 1945. After the Second World War he was employed as the state party secretary of the SPÖ Vorarlberg from 1945 to 1947, after which he worked as a self-employed businessman.

Politics and functions

Hammer was initially a member of the Social Democratic Party and became a member of the Revolutionary Socialists after the party was banned in 1934 . After the Second World War he was a member of the municipal council of Lustenau from 1947 to 1950 and from April 1960 to April 1975. In Lustenau he also worked as a member of the local school council and as a member of the cultural council. In professional representation he was involved as a committee member of the trade section of Vorarlberg's commercial economy, from 1954 he was also a member of the book trade committee and from 1959 a member of the paper trade committee of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce. He was deputy chairman of the Free Trade Association and from 1955 a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Economic Development (WIFI). As a member of the Feldkirch electoral district , he represented the SPÖ from October 29, 1954 to October 28, 1964 in the Vorarlberg state parliament, where he was a member of the Education Committee and the Legal and Legal and Immunity Committee. Within the party, he held the function of district party chairman of the SPÖ Dornbirn .

Private

Hammer was born the son of a railroad union. His mother died in 1919. He was married to Agnes Barbisch.

Web links

• Biography of Alois Hammer (PDF; 80 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.