Anton Kecht

Anton Kecht (born January 10, 1895 in Häselgehr , Tyrol ; † September 16, 1965 in Wörgl , Tyrol ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), teacher and writer .

Life

Anton Kecht attended the teacher training college in Innsbruck from 1909 to 1914 ; then he was a soldier as a Kaiserschützen in the First World War .

From 1919 Kecht was employed as a teacher in Elbigenalp and Ehrwald ; from 1923 he was director of a secondary school in Zell am Ziller . In 1930 he was appointed district school inspector for the Kitzbühel district , and from 1937 he was appointed for the Schwaz district. From 1938, after the annexation of Austria , he had to accept work as an unskilled worker or as an insurance officer. After the Second World War , he was able to seamlessly build on his educational career when he was again district school inspector in Schwaz in 1945.

In 1945 Kecht moved into the Tyrolean state parliament for the ÖVP , in which he held a mandate for eight years, until 1953. In January 1958, after a five-year political break, he moved to the National Council in Vienna as an ÖVP member . After a year and a half, he resigned from parliament in June 1959.

Anton Kecht was also active as a writer. Under the pseudonym Hansjörg Schwarzensteiner , from 1927 on he wrote mainly local literature and folk plays , including Geizkrag'n , a folk piece in 4 elevators from 1927, or the popular piece Kain (5 elevators), which Kecht published in 1932. His first 263-page novel, Helga Anderstätt , hit bookstores in 1947. Other local novels were In the shadow of a marriage from 1960 and Der Schmied von Lermoos , a historical novel from the time of Charles V , which Kecht published in 1961.

Anton Kecht died in Wörgl in September 1965 at the age of 70.

Web links

• Anton Kecht on the website of the Austrian Parliament