August Thurnher

August Thurnher (born December 17, 1836 in Dornbirn , † August 9, 1908 in Bozen ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician. Thurnher was from 1868 to 1871 and from 1878 to 1882 member of the Vorarlberg state parliament and from 1870 to 1871 a member of the Vorarlberg state committee .

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August Thurnher was born on December 17, 1936 as the son of Franz Martin Thurnher and his wife Theresia Mager in Dornbirn. Thurnher studied law and graduated with the promotion to Doctor of Law from. He then embarked on a career as a civil servant in the Austrian Empire . From 1862 he worked as a concept intern at the Feldkirch district office , and from 1867 he was an imperial district actuary at the Bludenz district office . In April 1868, Thurnher was transferred to South Tyrol for the first time in his career, where he briefly worked as a district actuary at the Bruneck district office . In August of the same year he became a governor in Innsbruck .

On November 13, 1871, he married Emilie Würzer in Bozen, with whom he subsequently had three children. In 1870 he was appointed kk district commissioner in Bozen , in 1875 he was appointed head of the kk base load replacement and regulation commission in Nauders . In 1876 he was deployed first in Ried im Oberinntal , from 1876 to 1879 in Meran and finally again in Innsbruck in 1880/81. From 1883 August Thurnher held the office of district captain in Bolzano.

In 1868 the small community of Raggal in the Grosses Walsertal granted August Thurnher honorary citizenship, because at that time he was no longer living in Vorarlberg and therefore could not have been elected to the state parliament. In the same year, his first election to the state parliament took place, where he succeeded Franz Josef Rinderer , whose election had been canceled, as a member of the rural communities in the constituency of Bludenz-Montafon . In 1870 he was re-elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament, this time for the rural communities in the Feldkirch-Dornbirn electoral district. For one year from 1870 to 1871 he was also a member of the Vorarlberg State Committee, the predecessor institution of the later state government. After two legislative periods he resigned from the state parliament in 1882 in order to concentrate fully on his office as district captain.

Web links

• Biography of August Thurnher in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.