Eduard Baumgartner

Eduard Baumgartner (born March 10, 1870 in Hallein , † November 4, 1948 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ) and director of the public school. From 1918 to 1934 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

education and profession

After attending seven classes at the elementary school in Hallein, Baumgartner switched to the kk Oberrealschule in Salzburg in 1885. He finished attending secondary school in 1890 and in the same year passed the Matura at the kk Staatslehrerbildungsanstalt in Salzburg. As a result, he worked as a teacher in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer from 1890 to 1894 and acquired the teaching qualification test for elementary schools in 1892 and the teaching qualification test for community schools in 1894. In 1894 he switched to Rauris as a teacher and then worked as a teacher in Hallein from 1896 to 1904. In 1904 he changed school again, but was then employed as a teacher at the community school in Salzburg-Haydnstrasse until 1922. During the First World War, however, he served as a war volunteer in Italy and Galicia between 1915 and 1918. In the school year 1922/23 he took over the position of the citizen school director in Hallein.

Politics and functions

Baumgartner worked from 1898 as chairman of the Salzburg teachers' union and from 1903 as the founder of the Halleiner Volksbildungsverein. From 1904 he was also a board member of the Salzburger Volksbildungsverein and in 1908 the founder of the “Anti-Clerical Cartel”. Between 1918 and 1934 he was active as editor of the Salzburger Wacht , a daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Workers' Party. Furthermore, he was a member of the regional party representation of the Salzburg Social Democrats in 1918/19 and from 1921 to 1923 municipal council in Salzburg. He represented the Social Democratic Labor Party from November 7, 1918 in the Salzburg state parliament, where he was a member of the provisional state assembly until April 21, 1919 and then a member of the constitutive state parliament until May 3, 1922. He was also a member of the state parliament in the second to fourth electoral terms and lost his mandate on February 16, 1934 as a result of the February fighting . He was also imprisoned for several months in 1934 for political reasons. In 1955 a street in Salzburg was named after his name in memory of him.

Works (selection)

• The magician jackl. Cultural images from a spiritual principality that is immediately part of the empire. sn, slna (ca.1900).
• The peasant in the struggle for justice and freedom. Graphia, Salzburg 1919.
• Local and district school boards and their tasks (= Kommunalpolitische Schriften. H. 6, ZDB -ID 2750980-1 ). Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1919.
• Salzburg. A guide through the history of the city and its inhabitants (= Salzburger Heimatbücher. 1–2). 2 volumes (Vol. 1: The citizen town until 1280 and the spiritual courts. Vol. 2: The town from 1280 to 1921. ). Salzburg State Teachers' Association, Salzburg 1921.
• The salaries of teachers at public schools for the people and citizens. With special consideration of the conditions in the state of Salzburg. Salzburg Teachers' Council, Salzburg 1923.
• The work of the social democrats in the Salzburg state parliament during the second electoral period 1922–1927. Social Democratic Party, Salzburg 1927.
• How the Church Acquired Land. The emergence of the great spiritual manors in Austria (= Freethinker Library . 33, ZDB -ID 1096935-4 ). Freethinkers Association, Vienna 1928.
• with Emil Fuchs: How Salzburg was made Catholic. The expulsion of the Protestants in 1731/32. Wiener Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna 1931.
• The work of the social democrats in the municipalities of Salzburg and the obstacles to this work. Social Democratic Labor Party, Salzburg 1931.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 , p. 14 f.