Franz Huettenberger

Franz Hüttenberger (born November 23, 1884 in Freinberg , Upper Austria ; † March 28, 1966 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Franz Hüttenberger came from a family of farmers . However, he learned after visiting the elementary school the profession of baker and was then in various factories in Austria and Germany operates. In 1922 he was elected head of the health insurance fund in Innsbruck.

Hüttenberger had been a member of the Socialist Party since the late 1910s. From 1920 he held the office of party secretary within his party. In 1925 he moved to the Tyrolean state parliament as a member of the Social Democrats , to which he was to belong until 1934. In 1934, shortly before the socialists were banned by Engelbert Dollfuss , he was elected chairman of the socialists for the state of Tyrol.

During the Dollfuss dictatorship, Hüttenberger served two prison terms. In August 1944 he was arrested by the Secret State Police and imprisoned in the Reichenau camp near Innsbruck, from which, however, after three months, in November 1944, he was released.

In 1945, Hüttenberger was able to continue his life before the war seamlessly. In 1945 he was elected regional party leader of the SPÖ Tirol , which he then headed for 16 years until 1961. In 1945 he moved again for the SPÖ in the Tyrolean state parliament.

Also in 1945 he was elected to the health and social state council in the state government by governor Karl Gruber . In December 1945, when Gruber's successor, Alfons Weißgatterer, took over the governor's agendas, he appointed Hüttenberger as his deputy governor. Franz Hüttenberger remained deputy governor of Tyrol under Alois Grauss and Hans Tschiggfrey .

At the federal political level, Hüttenberger was a member of the Federal Council in Vienna from December 1945 to June 1946 .

In 1961 Franz Hüttenberger retired from all political offices into private life.

Web links

• Franz Hüttenberger on the website of the Austrian Parliament