Andreas Viehauser

Andreas Viehauser (born June 4, 1901 in Bad Hofgastein , † December 3, 1968 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and general practitioner. From 1945 to 1954 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1952 to 1954 he was second deputy state parliament president.

education and profession

Viehauser attended elementary school in Bad Hofgastein and then switched to the Archbishop's private grammar school Borromäum in Salzburg, where he graduated from high school in 1923 . He studied then from 1923 to 1929 medicine at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1929 for Dr. med. univ. Viehauser completed his rotation from 1929 to 1934 in the hospital of the Barmherzigen Brüder in Vienna and Salzburg and in the accident hospital in Vienna , after which he worked as a general practitioner in Salzburg from 1934 to 1967. Viehauser was drafted into military service from 1939 to 1942, where he served as senior physician. In 1947 he was awarded the professional title of Medical Councilor.

Politics and functions

After the end of the Second World War , Viehauser joined the newly founded Salzburg People's Party in 1945. From 1946 to 1954 he was Deputy Chairman of the Austrian Economic Association in the State of Salzburg and from 1945 to 1968 President of the Salzburg Red Cross . Furthermore, from 1948 to 1955 he held the position of regional chairman of the Austrian Children's Rescue Service, from 1950 to 1958 he was active as regional chairman of the working group for public health and from 1949 to 1954 he was a member of the regional office committee of the General Accident Insurance Agency (AUVA) Salzburg. He was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on December 12, 1945 and left the state parliament on December 10, 1954. From May 28, 1952, until he left the state parliament, he was second deputy state parliament president. After his death in 1969, a street in Dr.-Viehauser-Straße was named in his honor.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .