Elwin Blum

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Elwin Blum (* December 24, 1920 in Höchst ; † February 4, 2002 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( VdU , FPÖ ) and entrepreneur. Blum was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1954 to 1959 and a regional councilor in the Vorarlberg state government from 1959 to 1969 .

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Elwin Blum was born on December 24, 1920 as the son of the independent sticker Hans Blum and his wife Stefanie in the Lake Constance municipality of Höchst. He attended elementary school and business school in Lustenau before joining the Höchst Seeverlag as a representative in 1936. From 1938 to 1940 Blum worked as a postal worker for the Reichspost , from 1940 to 1943 as an accountant at Sparkasse Höchst. During the war, Elwin Blum was initially in the rank of private as fit for work at the Bregenz military district command. He then volunteered for the front line in the General Command of Julius Ringel , where he ended up in American captivity at the end of the war . After the war, he worked as an accountant in his father-in-law's stocking factory from 1945 to 1949, before setting up a business in 1949 with the production of knitted and hosiery goods .

In 1947 Elwin Blum was co-founder and district secretary of the Association of Independents in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley . In 1951 he became its district chairman. He was a co-founder of the “Electoral Party of Independents” in Vorarlberg, which was renamed the Freedom Party of Austria in 1959 . From 1950 to 1959, Blum was subsequently a community representative and councilor in Fußach , and from 1960 a councilor in his home town of Höchst.

In 1954, Elwin Blum joined the Vorarlberg state parliament as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament , where he became club chairman of the WdU in 1956. After the WdU was renamed the FPÖ, Blum remained club chairman and regional party chairman. On October 29, 1959, Elwin Blum was elected as a representative of the FPÖ to the Vorarlberg state government , where he headed the water management department until October 18, 1969.

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SURNAME Blum, Elwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (VdU, FPÖ), member of the state parliament, regional councilor of Vorarlberg
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Maximum
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 2002
Place of death Maximum