Armin Rhomberg

Armin Rhomberg (born March 5, 1901 in Dubuque , Iowa , † August 25, 1985 in Götzis ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). From 1945 to 1959 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Rhomberg attended elementary school in Dubuque and graduated from Stella Matutina grammar school in Feldkirch after he and his family had returned from the USA in 1911. He then switched to the Bregenz high school and passed the Matura there. He then studied from 1919 onwards at the business administration faculty of the Technical University of Munich and graduated in 1923 with the academic degree of business administration graduate . He continued his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna continued and completed his doctorate in 1925 for Dr. rer. soc. oec.

Professionally, Rhomberg was employed between 1925 and 1932 as an employee of the Wiener Automobilfabrik AG in Vienna. In 1933 he became a branch director of an insurance company in Vienna and in 1936 moved to Semperit AG Vienna. In 1938 he moved to Cologne, where he worked for the local Semperit branch until autumn 1940. After that, from November 1940 to 1945 he was an economic advisor to the Upper President of the Rhine Province in Essen. After the Second World War, Rhomberg worked as an authorized signatory for the Konrad Hug leather goods manufacturer in Götzis, after which he was managing director of the trade section of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce from July 1, 1946 to June 30, 1958. He retired in 1960.

Politics and functions

Rhomberg was already involved as chairman of the Austrian Association of Christian Middle School Students of the Vorarlberg regional group and was a member of the CV connections Aenania Munich , Trifels Munich and Marco-Danubia Vienna . He was a member of the Fatherland Front and the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen from 1934 to 1938 and in 1938 was a candidate for membership of the NSDAP. In a questionnaire in 1939 Rhomberg was named as a member of the NSDAP who had "always been very Nazi." In 1945 he joined the newly founded Austrian People's Party. He held the office of mayor of Götzis from May 5, 1945 to July 1946 and represented the ÖVP as a member of the Feldkirch electoral district between December 11, 1945 and October 28, 1959 in the Vorarlberg state parliament. From 1949 to 1959 he was club chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary group and during his membership in the state parliament was a member of the economic committee and finance committee, member of the legal committee and at times a member of the social policy committee.

Within the party he was active as a member of the state party leadership of the ÖVP Vorarlberg from 1949 to 1959, was a member of the state party council of the ÖVP Vorarlberg from 1950 to 1959 and from 1949 to 1959 a member of the state party presidium of the ÖVP Vorarlberg. Among other things, he was involved as chairman of the Götzis branch of the Austrian Economic Association and was local party chairman of ÖVP Götzis. In the Wirtschaftsbund he was also a member of the district management and a member of the state management.

Rhomberg was chairman of the savings and loan fund Götzis, member of the customs advisory board in Vienna, assessor of the arbitration tribunal of the commercial social insurance in Vienna and member of the specialist committee chemistry in Vienna.

Private

Rhomberg was the son of the brewery entrepreneur Johann Alfons Rhomberg (1872–1951) and his wife Gebhardine, née Kopf (* 1876). He married Paula Gräf (1907–1963) in 1925 and had two daughters, born in 1926 and 1928 respectively. In his second marriage, Rhomberg was married to Maria Isenberg from Worms († 1997).

Awards

• Julius Raab Medal of Honor (1961)
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg (1975)

Web links

• Biography of Armin Rhomberg (PDF; 94 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Wladika : On the representation of politicians and mandataries with a Nazi past in the Austrian People's Party 1945–1980. A group biographical study. Research project on behalf of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute. Vienna 2018, p. 198f ( PDF ).