Alois Wimberger

Alois Wimberger (born January 23, 1898 in Linz ; † December 19, 1981 there ) was an Austrian teacher and politician ( SPÖ ). In 1945 Wimberger was regional councilor in the Upper Austrian regional government and from 1945 to 1962 a member of the National Council .

education and profession

Wimberger grew up as the son of a teacher and spent his youth at his father's place of work in St. Leonhard near Freistadt . Alois Wimberger also took up the profession of teacher and attended the teacher training college in Linz. Before completing his training, he was drafted into military service and transferred to the northern front. During the Brusilov offensive he suffered four bayonet stabs and was seriously wounded as a Russian prisoner of war. There he became a socialist and was able to return to Upper Austria after several years through a prisoner exchange. He then completed his training as a teacher and subsequently worked as a teacher in St. Johann am Walde , Kirchberg , Pischelsdorf am Engelbach and Schneegattern (municipality of Lengau ). After he was transferred to the Figuly school in 1934, Wimberger was arrested in the wake of the February fighting in 1934 after only three weeks at his new school. He was charged with high treason and suspended from school for seven months. As a result, however, he was employed again as a primary school director.

politics

Until the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934, Wimberger was a district education officer for the Social Democratic Party in Braunau and was involved in the teachers' union. He was also head of the school and child friends . After the end of the Second World War, Wimberger was elected to the party executive committee of the SPÖ, was a state education officer and co-founder of the social democratic teachers' association in Upper Austria. In 1945 he belonged to the provisional state government and after the National Council election in 1945 he moved to Vienna as the first social democratic member of the National Council of the Mühlviertel. He was sworn in on December 19, 1945 and was a member of the National Council for five legislative terms until December 14, 1962. In addition, Wimberger, who himself had been severely disabled after the First World War, worked in the Association of War Victims, in which he held the position of regional chairman between 1949 and 1967. He was also Vice President of the Austrian Association of War Victims.

literature

• Harry Slapnicka: Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945. Linz 1989 (Contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria 12)

Web links

• Biography of Alois Wimberger on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Alois Wimberger on the website of the Austrian Parliament