Franz Bauer (politician, 1927)

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Franz Bauer (born March 16, 1927 in Vienna ; † March 1, 1988 ibid) was an Austrian politician and member of the ÖVP , and most recently ombudsman of the republic.

After school and the grammar school he studied at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1950 for juris doctor . From 1947 to 1949 he was chairman of the Austrian Students' Union. In his final years of study he worked as an official in the Viennese social security system and from 1955 as a journalist . In 1957 he became the business editor of the Wiener Zeitung , later chief editor.

Around this time his political career began, first as secretary of the Vienna ÖVP local council club , as a district councilor in Währing and later at Alsergrund , where he was elected district chairman in 1964 . 1964–70 he was a member of the City Council of Vienna and from 1969 regional party chairman of the ÖVP Vienna.

Bauer was elected to the National Council in early 1970 and remained a member of parliament until he was elected as Ombudsman in July 1977 . During his second term of office (from 1983) he died in 1988 in this office, which is on an equal footing with a federal minister in terms of protocol .

Since 1947 he was a member of the Catholic student union KaV Norica Vienna .

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  1. a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)