Andreas Sprenger (politician)

Andreas Sprenger (born April 11, 1899 in Feldkirch - Tisis , † September 6, 1968 in Bludenz ) was an Austrian politician ( CS , ÖVP ) and director of the Vorarlberg consumer cooperative. In 1945 Sprenger was a member of the Vorarlberg regional committee for the ÖVP and from 1945 to 1954 a regional councilor in the Vorarlberg regional government .

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Andreas Sprenger was born on April 11, 1899 with Liechtenstein citizenship as the son of the state railroad inspection fitter Andreas Sprenger and his wife Berta in the Austrian border town of Tisis. In the years from 1905 to 1912 Sprenger first attended the elementary school in Tisis, then for one year the elementary school in Feldkirch and the community school in the Catholic teachers' college in Feldkirch. After he had also completed the business school at the Catholic teachers' college, Andreas Sprenger tried to join the order of school brothers , but he did not succeed. He then began to work in the JL Fritz general store in Dalaas in 1915 , but in 1917 he moved to Bludenz as head of municipal utilities . From 1921 to 1938 he was in charge of the Bludenz consumer association, after which he was inspector of the district camp of the consumer associations in the Walgau-Montafon region for two years. On October 2, 1922, he married Anna Muther, with whom he subsequently had four children. Andreas Sprenger also acquired his Austrian-Liechtenstein dual citizenship in the 1920s (1929). Sprenger had been a member of the Christian Social Party since 1922, whereby two party exclusion proceedings initiated against him in 1926 and 1929 with the accusation that he was "radically social" were personally prevented by Otto Ender . From 1934 to 1938 Andreas Sprenger was a member of the Chamber Council for Christian Social Workers in the Vorarlberg Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees , and from 1935 as Chamber Vice-President.

In 1938 he was briefly imprisoned after Austria was annexed to the German Reich and the associated seizure of power by the National Socialists. During the Second World War, Sprenger was called up for military service from August 1944 until the end of the war in 1945. After the liberation of Austria by the Allies, Andreas Sprenger's professional and political advancement followed. First, on April 25, 1945, Sprenger became director and chairman of the Vorarlberg consumer cooperative, which he remained until his retirement in 1966. In July 1945 he was a member of the provisional city ​​council of the city of Bludenz, where he was appointed provisional city councilor for finance and culture as well as local school supervisor in December 1945. On October 19, 1945, Andreas Sprenger was appointed as a representative of the ÖVP by Ulrich Ilg to the provisionally set up Vorarlberg State Committee, where he acted as a member without a portfolio. Even after the state elections in 1945 and 1949 , Andreas Sprenger was represented as a regional councilor in the Vorarlberg state government , initially from 1945 to 1949 without a portfolio and from 1949 to 1954 with the departments of school, culture and culture. From December 11, 1945 to October 28, 1954, Sprenger was also a member of the constituency of Bludenz in the Vorarlberg state parliament for the ÖVP.

Web links

• Biography of Andreas Sprenger (PDF; 104 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.