Alois Winkler (politician)

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Alois Winkler (born June 7, 1838 in Waidring , Tyrol ; † June 11, 1925 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and canon as well as long-time governor and member of the state parliament of Salzburg .

Life

Born as the fourteenth child of a farming family in the Adlergut in Waidring in Tyrol, Alois Winkler was ordained a priest on July 26, 1863. From 1878 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament . From 1887 Winkler was the editor of the Catholic daily newspaper Salzburger Chronik . From January 17, 1897 to December 29, 1902 and from July 21, 1909 to April 23, 1919 he was Governor of Salzburg, from 1902 to 1909 he was Deputy Governor. His focus was on the order of finance and the establishment of welfare institutions such as the 1898 founded Taubstummenanstalt and under his chairmanship of the People's Union for combating tuberculosis in Kronlande Salzburg built Lungenheilanstalt Grafenhof in Sankt Veit im Pongau . Winkler remained in office even after the collapse of the monarchy and was able to restore order in the "Revolutionary State Parliament" in 1918 at the age of 80. He is also considered to be the guardian of a largely trouble-free transition despite insufficient supply during this time.

Honors

Winkler was made the first honorary citizen of Radstadt in 1886 and the first honorary citizen of Kuchl in 1901 . From 1903 Winkler was the papal house prelate . In 1917 the city of Salzburg granted him honorary citizenship . In 1935, Prälat-Winkler-Strasse in the Aigen district was named after him. This leads from Ignaz-Rieder-Kai to Aigner Straße.

literature

  • Friederike Zaisberger : "The old town in the mountains". 700 years of Radstadt. (= Series of publications of the Salzburg State Archives. No. 7, ZDB -ID 1196355-4 ). Catalog for the country's special exhibition. Salzburg State Archives, Salzburg 1989, XV.8.
  • Oskar Dohle: 150 years of Salzburg governors. 1861–2011 (= series of publications of the Salzburg State Archives. No. 17). Salzburger Landesarchiv, Salzburg 2011, p. 22 ff., ( Digital version (PDF; 3.28 MB) ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death book - STBIX | Salzburg Cathedral Parish | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Josef Eichriedler (Ed.): Heimatbuch Kuchl. = 600 years of Markt Kuchl. Self-published by the market town of Kuchl, Kuchl 1980, p. 63.

Remarks

The "governor" had a different function than that of the 1st and 2nd republic. He was the chairman of the state parliament (or state committee), roughly equivalent to today's state parliament president . State leader what the country's president.

personal data
SURNAME Winkler, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, governor of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Waidring
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1925
Place of death Salzburg