Bertram Jäger

Bertram Jäger (1985)

Bertram Jäger (born October 22, 1929 in Bürs ) is a former Austrian politician and Chamber of Labor official of the ÖVP from the state of Vorarlberg . From 1964 to 1994 Jäger was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament , from 1987 as its president . From 1969 to 1987, Bertram Jäger was also President of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor.

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In 1929 Bertram Jäger was born as the second of eight children to a master tailor in Bürs. He attended the Episcopal High School Paulinum in Schwaz , where he graduated from high school in 1949. He then attended the commercial college at the commercial academy in Bregenz and graduated in 1954. Jäger completed his further training at the Catholic Social Academy in Vienna in 1960/61.

As early as 1956, Bertram Jäger was a community representative in his home community of Bürs, before he was elected city representative in the neighboring district capital of Bludenz in 1960, which he remained until 1970. During this time, Jäger was employed by the textile company Getzner Textil . There he became a member of the works council for the first time in 1956 , and from 1960 onwards he acted as chairman of the employee works council.

In 1964 Jäger was first sent to the Vorarlberg state parliament as a candidate for the ÖVP in the Bludenz constituency . In the same year he was also elected as a representative of the ÖAAB to the Chamber Council of the Vorarlberg Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees . Subsequently, from 1969 to 1987 he was the first non-socialist to be president of an Austrian Chamber of Labor. From 1974 until he left the Chamber Council, Bertram Jäger led the ÖAAB parliamentary group in the Austrian Chamber of Labor. From 1975 to 1992 he was also chairman of the Vorarlberg ÖAAB.

In terms of federal politics, Bertram Jäger was Federal Deputy Federal Chairman of the ÖAAB from 1971 to 1991, from 1980 to 1989 as Deputy Federal Chairman of the ÖVP and from 1982 to 1987 as Vice President of the Austrian Chamber of Labor. In 1987, hunters of the Members of was XXIV. Vorarlberg Parliament as the successor of a state governor in the Vorarlberg state government exchanged Martin Purtscher to parliament president elected. After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1994 , Jäger voluntarily handed over this position to his successor Siegfried Gasser and left the state parliament.

After the end of his active political career, Bertram Jäger became involved as a board member of CARE Austria and as a member of the supervisory board of the weekly newspaper Die Furche . For his services to the Republic of Austria, he was awarded the Great Gold Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria and the Leopold Kunschak Prize . In 1987 he received the gold medal from the state of Vorarlberg .

Jäger is married and has four daughters and two sons.

literature

• Bertram Jäger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 29/2004 of July 17, 2004, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Bertram Jäger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bertram Jäger on the website of the state of Vorarlberg.
• Biography of Bertram Jäger in the parliamentary materials of the Vorarlberg Landtag.
• Vorarlberg's former AK and state parliament president Bertram Jäger turns 80 . Article on Vorarlberg Online from October 21, 2009.