Alois Lugger (politician, 1912)

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Bust of Alois Luggers in the Olympic Village in Innsbruck

Alois Lugger (born July 11, 1912 in Brixen , South Tyrol , † August 11, 2005 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). Lugger was mayor of the city of Innsbruck, member of the Tyrolean state parliament and regional councilor in the Tyrolean state government . In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully in the federal presidential elections.

Life

After graduating from high school in Kufstein , Lugger studied law and political science at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate there in 1935 and 1936. He became secretary to the governor of Tyrol . In 1938 he was dismissed for political reasons and was banned from working in Austria.

After 1945 he became a civil servant in the city council of Innsbruck . His political career began in 1947 as a Tyrolean Provincial Councilor . He held this position from 1947 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1954. From 1949 to 1979 he was a member of the Tyrolean state parliament. In 1965 he succeeded Johann Obermoser as President of the Tyrolean State Parliament, he held the office until 1979. From 1950 to 1954 he held the position of regional party chairman of the Tyrolean People's Party .

For more than 27 years, from 1956 to 1983, he was Innsbruck's mayor and during this time brought the Winter Olympics to the city twice, in 1964 and 1976 . In 1974 he was a candidate for the Federal Presidency of the ÖVP , but was defeated by Rudolf Kirchschläger .

Since the beginning of his political career, he has been very interested in the development of municipalities and cities in Europe . He became Vice President of the Council of European Municipalities and from 1968 to 1970 President of the European Conference on Local Authorities . On the occasion of Lugger's 85th birthday, the city of Innsbruck and the state of Tyrol donated the Kaiser Maximilian Prize as a European prize for regional and local politics.

He had four children with his wife Luise. Lugger was a member of the Catholic student association Cimbria Kufstein in the MKV and the AV Austria Innsbruck in the ÖCV . Lugger was born on 20./21. November 1959 invested in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna . From 1968 to 1989 he was chief commander of the grave knights in Innsbruck.

Today the DDr.-Alois-Lugger-Platz in the Olympic Village is dedicated to him, on which there has been a bust with a memorial plaque since 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Catholic Couleur Students in Austria", "Borussen Echo", 269a, October 1982, p. 11
  2. ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 239 .
personal data
SURNAME Lugger, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixen
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 2005
Place of death innsbruck