Eugene Leissing

Eugen Leissing (born November 26, 1913 in Bregenz ; † May 26, 2000 there ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and businessman. Leissing was from 1945 to 1949 by the State Parliament of Vorarlberg seconded member of the Austrian Federal Council and a member of the Vorarlberg Provincial Committee , the provincial government of Vorarlberg and the Diet.

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Eugen Leissing was born on November 26, 1913 in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz, where he also attended elementary and community school. From 1928 to 1930 he attended a commercial training school and then worked as a commercial clerk until 1934. Leissing became politically active for the first time in the years 1934 to 1938, when he worked as an employee of the state management of the Fatherland Front in Vorarlberg. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, Eugen Leissing was arrested and remanded by the National Socialists from March to June 1938 and then banned from working. In 1939 he began to work again as an accountant in a tax consultant's office, in 1940 he became the managing director of a specialist paper shop in Bregenz and from 1943 until the end of the war he was both the manager of a branch of a tax consultant's office and the fiduciary manager of a wholesale grocery store.

In 1945, Ulrich Ilg appointed Eugen Leissing to the newly established Vorarlberg State Committee as a member of the Austrian People's Party . After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1945 , he was a member of the state government Ilg I until 1946 as a government advisor for cultural affairs. At the same time, he was also sent to Vienna on December 19, 1945 by the Vorarlberg state parliament, to which he was a member until 1949. He stayed that way until October 25, 1949. From 1946 to 1950, Eugen Leissing was the broadcasting director of Radio Vorarlberg, the regional radio program of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation . In 1951 he was a short-term employee of a company in Bregenz, from 1951 he became an authorized signatory of Rheinhandel-Warenhandels GmbH, from 1961 he became a managing partner of this company. At the municipal level, Leissing became involved again as a city councilor in Bregenz from 1965 to 1970, after having been a member of the Bregenz city council for a short time in 1945.

Leissing was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg and the Papal Order of Holy New Year's Eve .

Web links

• Eugen Leissing on the website of the Austrian Parliament