Franz Heissler

Franz Heissler (Heißler) (born June 10, 1868 in Winterberg , South Bohemia ; † May 2, 1945 in Bad Hall , Upper Austria) was an Austrian mining engineer and politician .

Life

After 1886, Franz Heissler studied law at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague with a doctorate in law. and since 1801 at the Montanuniversität Leoben in Styria . During his studies in 1887 he became a member of the fraternity Marko-Germania Vienna and the fraternity Carolina Prague. In 1894 he joined the mining office in Brüx in Bohemia , became its director in 1902, joined the mining office in Prague in 1900 and became a mountain miner in the Ministry of Public Works in Vienna in 1912 . In 1917 Heissler was authorized signatory and director of the Graz-Köflach railway administration, since 1919 technical and commercial director of the Ybbstaler coal works and first board member of Wolfsegg-Traunthaler coal works AG , became miner , court councilor and their central director.

Franz Heissler had belonged to the Linz Chamber of Commerce and Commerce since 1925 , became its president in 1930, joined the board of the Main Association of Industry in Austria and was appointed to the permanent mining council of the Ministry of Trade and Transport. In March 1934 he became a regional councilor in the Upper Austrian provincial government and campaigned for the expansion of lignite mining. In November 1934 he asked for his dismissal on the grounds that his work as a member of the administrative commission of the Austrian Federal Railways was not compatible with the work of a regional council and resigned from the regional government Gleißner II on November 12, 1934 . In 1938 he resigned from all his offices and spent his old age in Bad Hall .

Honors

• Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order (1907)
• War Merit Cross for Civil Merit, 1st Class (1917)
• Hungarian War Memorial Medal (1930)
• Austrian War Memorial Medal (1933)
• Large Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1933)

literature

• Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon on the History of the Bohemian Lands. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Vol. I, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich Vienna 1979, p. 584, ISBN 3-486-49491-0
• Hansjörg Brokmann, Rudolf Simm, Jürgen Wokoek: The Academic Burschenschaft Carolina zu Prague in Munich commemorates their deceased, fallen and murdered brothers, copyright 2014, under: Short biographies of important Caroliner p. 140, Heißler, Franz
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 291-292.
• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership 1918 to 1938. Upper Austrian state publisher, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-163-X , p. 125f.

Web links

• Biography of Franz Heissler on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .