Christian Hiller

Christian Hiller (born March 5, 1880 in Schwarzenberg , † October 14, 1951 in Bezau ) was an Austrian politician and clergyman. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Hiller studied theology in Brixen between 1903 and 1906 and celebrated Primiz on July 13, 1905 . He was then employed as a parish assistant in Schwarzach between 1906 and 1907 and worked as a chaplain in Hard in 1907 . After that he was between 1907 and 1938 as a religion professor at the secondary school in Dornbirn and around 1927 was the editor of the parish newspaper "Die Glocke". He was also active from 1930 to 1938 as the editor of the Catholic People's Calendar. After moving to Bezau in 1938, he worked from 1939 to 1940 as a theology professor in the seminary in St. Karl in Volders and then in Matrei. He was invested in the Bezau parish church on November 3, 1940 and, after being expelled from the Bregenzerwald in 1941, spent nine months with the English ladies in Lindau . On September 6, 1941, he was allowed to return to Bezau as a pastor, where he worked until his death.

Politics and functions

Hiller was a member and president of the Catholic workers 'association in Dornbirn and a member and from 1917 president of the Catholic workers' association. He was involved in the auxiliary committee in Dornbirn, was active as chairman of the Christian Social Party in Dornbirn and later worked as a member of the Fatherland Front and its country manager of the welfare organization “New Life”. In 1934 he was appointed as a professional representative of the arts and sciences by the Vorarlberg governor as a member of the state parliament and was a member of the state parliament during the period of the corporate state and Austrofascism from November 14, 1934 until the annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938. Hiller was also head of the girls' association "Stella". After reading a silent mass for the fallen in the chapel of the war memorial in Bezau, Hiller was imprisoned between November 28 and December 8, 1940 and then expelled from the Bregenzerwald.

Private

Christian Hiller was born as the son of farmer Johann Georg Hiller and his wife Maria Margarethe Mayer. When his mother died, Hiller was only 14 years old.

Awards

• Sponsor of the Catholic German Pennalie Siegberg
• Honor band of the CV connection Norica in Vienna

Works

• The Catholic Church in Dornbirn in Vorarlberg. Munich 1940
• Bells consecration in Höchst. Lustenau 1951

Web links

• Biography of Christian Hiller (PDF; 98 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.