Anton Kimml

Anton Kimml (born April 21, 1900 in Vienna , † August 31, 1977 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and secretary of the Chamber of Labor. From 1949 to 1964 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1959 first deputy state parliament president.

education and profession

After elementary school, Kimml completed three classes of a lower secondary school and in 1914 joined the Poldihütte crucible cast steel factory as an office worker. After he had passed the external Matura in 1918, he studied at the University of Vienna and in 1919 became secretary of the Association of Young Workers. In 1920 he switched to the Vienna Chamber of Labor and was also secretary of the Association of Cooperative Assistant Committees between 1922 and 1938. Furthermore, Kimml was from 1936 to 1938 managing director of the "professional association of workers and employees in the trade", where he was dismissed from service in 1938 after the Nazis came to power due to his political activities and subsequently switched to the insurance industry. After the Second World War he was secretary of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor from 1946 to 1963 and then director of BAWAG Salzburg from 1963 to 1965.

Politics and functions

Kimml got involved in Vienna in 1929 as the founder of the organization " Jugend in Not " and ran the association until 1938 as an honorary managing director. From 1931 to 1938 he was also the organizer and honorary managing director of “Wiener Winterhilfe”. Kimml had already joined the Social Democratic Labor Party in 1919 and was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on December 1, 1949. On July 2, 1959, he took over the role of First Deputy President of the State Parliament and held this position until he left the State Parliament on June 18, 1964. In addition to his political mandates, Kimml was active as chairman of the state education committee of the SPÖ from 1950, and from 1961 to 1976 he was also chairman of the "Association of non-profit building, housing and settlement associations". He also held the office of deputy chairman of the Salzburg vocational school council, deputy chairman of the “Jugend am Werk” association, deputy chairman of the “Mozarteum Orchestra” association and chairman of the “Association for Housing Promotion”.

Awards

• 1960: Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1970: Silver Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg

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 .