Ernst Längauer

Ernst Längauer (born June 27, 1941 in Eisenerz ; † March 29, 2007 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and security engineer. From 1989 to 1994 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and city council of the Hallein community .

education and profession

Längauer was born in Eisenerz in Styria and attended elementary school in Hieflau from 1948 to 1951 . In 1951 he moved to Eisenerz to attend secondary school, where he graduated from secondary school in 1954. In 1955 he began training as a machine fitter at the factory school in Eisenerz and completed his training in 1958. He then worked from 1958 to 1960 in the profession he had learned. Between 1960 and 1964, Längauer continued his education at the Bundesgewerbeschule für Maschinenbau in Klagenfurt, where he also passed his Matura in 1964 . He then did military service between 1964 and 1965 and then worked from 1965 to 1971 as an assistant director at Friedmann & Maier in Hallein. In 1971 he switched to the service of the General Accident Insurance Fund (AUVA) in Salzburg, where he worked as a safety engineer until 1983. From 1983 to 1989 he worked as the head of the safety services at the Salzburg Accident Hospital and the AUVA in Salzburg, Innsbruck and Dombirn and was most recently the administrator of the AUVA Accident Hospital in Salzburg from 1990 to 2002.

Politics and functions

Längauer joined the Socialist Party of Austria in 1970 and worked within the party from 1988 to 1992 as district party chairman of the SPÖ in Tennengau . He was a union member and from 1980 to 1989 also chaired the parliamentary group of socialist trade unionists in AUVA Salzburg. He was also a member of the SPÖ state party presidium from 1988 to 1994. In local politics, Längauer was active as a city councilor in Hallein from 1984 to 1989 and from 1986 to 1989 he was also the club chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary group in the Hallein municipal council. He ran for the SPÖ in the 1989 state elections and represented the SPÖ from May 3, 1989 to May 1, 1994 in the Salzburg state parliament. From 1989 to 1992, Längauer was also a board member of the Salzburg Hunters' Association.

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 .