Anton Karl

Anton Karl (born December 6, 1935 in Hallein ; † September 14, 2015 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and Salzburg master butcher. From 1992 to 1999 he was a member of the Salzburg State Parliament , Federal Butchers' Guild Master and President of the International Association of Master Butchers.

education and profession

Karl attended elementary and secondary school in Salzburg from 1941 to 1949 and began an apprenticeship as a butcher in 1949. He also attended vocational school and completed his apprenticeship in 1952. He was able to expand his professional knowledge in 1956 by passing the butcher's master's examination, and then graduated from the butcher's school in Landshut (Germany). From 1960 to 1968 he was a partner in Anton Karl OHG in Salzburg and then from 1968 to 1995 he worked as an independent master butcher.

Politics and functions

Karl was active in professional and professional representation for a long time and from 1975 worked as a committee member of the butchers' guild in Salzburg. Between 1980 and 1995 he held the office of the butchers 'guild master and then from 1995 to 2000 he was deputy butchers' guild master in Salzburg. He was also active in the butchers' guild at the federal level, where he became a committee member of the butchers' guild in 1980 and between 1985 and 1992 he held the post of federal deputy master of the butchers' guild. After that he was Federal Butchers' Guild Master from 1992 to 2000. He reached the high point of his professional career when he was President of the International Association of Master Butchers (LMV) between 1998 and 1999. Karl was also a member from 1985 to 1990 and vice-chairman of the section trade and craft in the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce between 1990 and 2000 . Karl represented the Austrian People's Party from January 30, 1992 to April 26, 1999 in the Salzburg state parliament.

• Appointment to the Council of Commerce (1989)
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (1996)
• Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (2001)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Salzburg People's Party mourns the loss of KommR Anton Karl. Retrieved March 18, 2017 . 
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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 .