Andreas Fetz

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Andreas Fetz (born August 13, 1832 in Bezau , † January 19, 1899 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian politician and lawyer . Fetz was from 1868 to 1870 a member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat and from 1879 to 1890 mayor of the city of Bregenz. From 1868 to 1870, from 1871 to 1878 and from 1884 to 1892 he was also a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Andreas Fetz was born on August 13, 1832 in the Bregenzerwald community of Bezau as the son of the farmer Johann Dominik Fetz and his wife Maria Anna (née Stülz). He attended elementary school and from 1843 the grammar school at St. Florian Monastery in Linz , Upper Austria , where he graduated from high school in 1852 . He then began studying classical philology at the University of Innsbruck , but in 1852 he switched to law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The jurisprudential study put Andreas Fetz from 1854-55 at the University of Vienna , where he finally on July 31, 1857 Doctor of Law doctorate was.

After initially working as a private tutor for his Vorarlberg compatriot Josef von Bergmann in Vienna, he became a trainee in the law firm of Dr. from Fletsch. In 1868 Andreas Fetz became court attorney in Vienna. From June 15, 1868 to December 20, 1877, Andreas Fetz was a registered lawyer in Vienna. From 1878 he worked as a lawyer in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz.

Political career

In October 1868 Andreas Fetz succeeded Carl von Seyffertitz , who had resigned from the Reichsrat in protest, to his mandate in the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat. In the House of Representatives, he worked as a liberal member of the Petitions Committee (4th Reichsrat session) and in the committee for the preliminary consultation of the Troop Weapons Contingent Act (5th Reichsrat session). In the state elections in 1867, Bartholomäus Berchtold's election to a mandate for the rural communities in the Bregenz – Bregenzerwald electoral district was canceled by the state parliament. Andreas Fetz took his place in 1868 as a member of the state parliament. After his brief resignation from the state parliament at the end of the second legislative period in 1870, Andreas Fetz was again a member of the state parliament in 1871, this time through the electoral curia of the city of Bludenz. In 1884 he was able to win re-election to the state parliament, where he now served as a member of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1890, Andreas Fetz was finally a member of the state parliament of the electoral curia of the city of Bregenz, which he remained until 1892. His successor in the Vorarlberg state parliament was Theodor Schmid .

In Bregenz, Andreas Fetz was a member of the municipal council from 1878 after his return from Vienna . On January 1, 1879, he was elected Mayor of Bregenz, which he remained until December 31, 1890. For his political merits, Fetez was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order in 1884 . On May 5, 1884, he was also made an honorary citizen of his hometown Bregenz .

In addition to his political activities, Andreas Fetz was President of the Red Cross in Vorarlberg, a member of the Association for Charitable Purposes, the Association for Increasing Tourism, the Vorarlberg Association of Friends of the Constitution, the Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsverein and the Bregenz Transport Association. Fetz was a founding member of the regional association for tourism and was its first chairman from 1893 to 1899.

Private life

Andreas Fetz married Thekla Ursula Anna Jakobina Stöckl from Kaltern in South Tyrol on September 22, 1869 in Bregenz . With this he had three daughters, born in 1870, 1871 and 1873.

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  1. ↑ a b c d e biography of Andreas Fetz in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberger Landtag.
  2. ^ A b Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in Parliament and Government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848–2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Messages from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 , p. 132–133 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).
personal data
SURNAME Fetz, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Bezau
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1899
Place of death Bregenz