Anton Eder (politician, 1868)

Anton Eder (born April 9, 1868 in Brixen ; † September 15, 1952 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician and from 1923 to 1929 mayor of Innsbruck.

Life

The son of a bookseller attended high school in Brixen and then studied law. In Innsbruck he became a member of the striking student union Akademischer Gesangsverein . In 1899 he settled in Innsbruck as a lawyer. In 1914 he was elected to the Innsbruck municipal council as a representative of the German Freedom Party, in 1919 and 1921 he was re-elected, most recently as a representative of the Greater German People's Party , in which the German Freedom Party was absorbed around 1920. He was a member of the municipal council and for a long time chairman of the service and legal section. In 1921 he was sent to the city council. After Wilhelm Greil's resignation , he was elected mayor by the local council on June 12, 1923. On May 15, 1925, he was re-elected for the term until May 1929.

Numerous infrastructure projects were implemented during Eder's tenure as mayor. After Achensee had already been acquired under his predecessor Greil , the city founded Tiroler Wasserkraftwerke AG (TIWAG), in which the city held almost half of the shares, under Eder's leadership, together with a bank consortium and the state , and left it from 1925 to 1927 build the Achensee power plant. Further achievements are the construction of the Nordkettenbahn , the system of the airport in the Reichenau , the modernization of the Sillwerks , two new Sillbrücken (Pembaur- and Prinz-Eugen-bridge), source versions in the Mühlauer gorge, the Urban steam in the Salurner road , the Amraser Strasse indoor swimming pool and the Bergisel ski jump . To alleviate the housing shortage, he had city planning director Jakob Albert and architect Theodor Prachensky build several large urban residential complexes, including the Schlachthofblock, the Pembaurblock in Pradl and the Mandelsbergerblock in Wilten .

On May 27, 1929, Eder handed over the office to his successor, the previous Vice Mayor Franz Fischer , and resigned from the local council. Until his retirement in 1947 he remained Vice President, Managing Director and Legal Advisor of TIWAG. Eder died at the age of 84 as a result of a traffic accident and was buried in a city grave of honor in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof .

In the Pradl district, Anton-Eder-Strasse was named after him.

literature

Angerer: Mayor Dr. Anton Eder †. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck, No. 10, October 1952, pp. 1–2 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

^ Albin Kulhanek: The AGV Innsbruck and its members 1863-1906 . Innsbruck 2003.
^ City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)
↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 117 .

personal data
SURNAME	Eder, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician, mayor of Innsbruck
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brixen
DATE OF DEATH	September 15, 1952
Place of death	innsbruck

[1] Albin Kulhanek: The AGV Innsbruck and its members 1863-1906 . Innsbruck 2003.

[2] City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)

[3] Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 117 .