Engelbert Luger

Engelbert Luger

Engelbert Luger (born May 12, 1861 in Dornbirn ; † April 6, 1926 there ) was an Austrian painter and politician ( CS ) in the state of Vorarlberg . From 1910 until his death he was mayor of the city of Dornbirn and from 1902 to 1914 and 1918 to 1926 a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

Live and act

Engelbert Luger was born on May 12, 1861 as the son of Peter and Susanna Luger in a family of manufacturers in Dornbirn. First Luger attended elementary and secondary school in his hometown before he began an apprenticeship with the master painter Alberich in the Dornbirn district of Hatlerdorf in 1876 . His subsequent wandering led him to Germany. In 1882 he finally opened his own painting business, although he continued his education in winter at the arts and crafts schools in Vienna, Cologne, Paris and Rome until 1890. On September 18, 1892, he married Anna Magdalena Ulmer in Dornbirn, with whom he later had three children in 1899, 1903 and 1905. Luger's younger brother, Alfons Luger (1869–1945), also became a well-known painter.

Luger, who worked as a church painter in Vorarlberg, the neighboring Tyrol and Switzerland, was elected for the first time for the Christian Socialists in the Dornbirn municipal council in 1888, where he remained until his election as mayor. On May 23, 1910, Engelbert Luger became the first Christian Social Mayor to succeed Karl Fußenegger as head of Dornbirn. After his election as mayor, the once dominant liberals in Dornbirn were unable to appoint the mayor once. As early as 1902, Luger had been elected to a political mandate at the state level. He was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament until 1914 as a member of the city of Dornbirn and was sworn in on November 3, 1918 as a representative of the Christian Social Party as a member of the provisional Vorarlberg state assembly. From 1919 until his death he was a member of the state parliament as a member of the Feldkirch electoral district . He was also a regional councilor in the Vorarlberg regional government .

Works

• 1901 Fresco of Christ as World Judge on the choir arch in the parish church of Bludesch

literature

• Karl Heinz Burmeister :  Luger Engelbert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 356.

Web links

• Biography of Engelbert Luger in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg Landtag.
• Engelbert Luger in the Dornbirn Lexicon of the Dornbirn City Archives.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Fußenegger	Mayor of Dornbirn 1910–1926	Josef Rüf