Alois Lechner

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Alois Lechner

Alois Lechner (born June 6, 1849 in Leiben , Lower Austria ; † February 17, 1919 in Vienna or Inzersdorf ob der Traisen ) was an Austrian politician ( CS ) as well as a restaurateur and farmer. He was mayor of Inzersdorf an der Traisen, member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Lechner was born the son of farmer Josef Lechner. He attended a one-class elementary school and from 1871 worked as an innkeeper and miller in Würnsdorf . From 1874 he was a farmer in Inzersdorf, he also worked as a businessman. He was involved in agricultural cooperatives and rose to become an important cooperative official. He was chairman of the Association of Rural Cooperatives in Lower Austria and was one of the founders of the committee of the Lower Austrian Farmers' Union in 1906. He was also chairman of the savings and loan fund, a member of the district road committee, the district school council and the district poor council and a member of the state culture council. In the municipality of Inzersdorf he was active as a councilor from 1871, between 1888 and 1912 he acted as mayor, after which he was again a councilor until his death.

Lechner was elected for the first time in the Lower Austrian Landtag in 1896, to which he subsequently belonged from December 28, 1896 until his death. Between 1902 and 1908 he was a member of the rural communities of Herzogenburg, Neulengbach, Purkersdorf and from 1909 to 1915 a member of the rural communities of the judicial districts of Herzogenburg, Melk, and Mautern. Most recently, he was a member of the provisional state parliament from November 1918. Lechner ran for the Reichsrat election in 1907 in constituency 63 and prevailed with 80 percent in the first ballot. In the 1911 Reichsrat election, Lechner was able to defend his mandate again in the first ballot with 72 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, Lechner also belonged to the Provisional National Assembly from October 21, 1918 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. 688
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907, p. 172
  • Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A biographical-statistical handbook, 1911-1917, XII. Legislative period. Publishing house Dr. Rudolf Ludwig, Vienna 1911, p. 99

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lt. Adlgasser Vienna, according to the biographical manual and parliamentary website Inzersdorf
personal data
SURNAME Lechner, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (CS) as well as innkeeper and farmer
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Leiben , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1919
Place of death Vienna or Inzersdorf whether the Traisen