Anton Linder

Anton Linder (born October 23, 1880 in Turnu Severinu , Principality of Romania , † September 23, 1958 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and union official. From 1919 to 1934 Linder was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament . From 1920 to 1934 he was a delegated member of the Austrian Federal Council , and from 1945 to 1949 he represented the SPÖ as a member of the Austrian National Council .

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Anton Linder was born on October 23, 1880 in Turn-Severin in today's Romania as the son of the painter Anton Linder from Vienna and his wife Maria. In Turn-Severin he attended elementary school and high school for two years. In 1895 he began an apprenticeship as an upholsterer and decorator in Vienna and then went on a journey to take his journeyman's examination . From 1904 to 1911 Linder worked for the Feldkirch master saddler Keller, but also for the Grebmer company. In 1911 he worked as an office clerk at the workers' bakery in Innsbruckand married Rosa Valland that same year on April 21. He adopted his wife's five children from his first marriage and had two more children with her in 1911 and 1918. In 1913 Anton Linder became the workers' secretary for Vorarlberg, and from 1914 he was politically active as state secretary of the SDAP Vorarlberg. From 1914 to 1918 he did military service.

Linder was first elected to a political mandate in 1919, when he became both a member of the Dornbirn city ​​council and a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament . A year later, in 1920, Anton Linder was sent to Vienna as a federal councilor by the state parliament . His political activity temporarily ended in 1934 when he was arrested by the Austro-Fascist corporate state on February 12 and dismissed from all political offices. Although he was released on February 17th, he subsequently fled to Switzerland, from where he was deported to France. In June 1934, after depositing bail, Linder obtained a residence permit for Zurich and was recognized as a political refugee.

After he returned to Vorarlberg in 1945 after the liberation of Austria from National Socialism, he became state secretary of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions and on December 19 a member of the National Council for the SPÖ. From June 22, 1946 to January 23, 1956 he was also President of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor .

Web links

• Anton Linder on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Biography of Anton Linder in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.