Franz Hofer (politician, 1929)

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Franz Hofer (born July 8, 1929 in Stroheim ; † April 19, 2020 ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). From 1967 to 1971 he was Vice Mayor of Leonding and from 1971 to 1985 a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag .

Life

Franz Hofer was born the first of eleven children to a farming family. After attending primary school in Stroheim -Reith and graduating from the academic high school in 1950, he began studying law at the University of Graz , where he received his doctorate in law in 1955 . He then worked as a legal advisor at the agricultural and forestry social security system, and until his retirement in 1989 he was director of the social security system for farmers . In his pension he began to study theology at the Catholic University in Linz , which he completed in 1996 as a master of theology.

Hofer was married from 1955 and had three children with his wife. He died in April 2020 at the age of 90.

politics

From 1957, Hofer was chairman of the Austrian workers' union in Leonding . In 1961 he moved into the local council and board, in 1965 he became city party chairman and from 1967 to 1971 he was vice mayor. In 1967 he succeeded Karl Blaimschein as ÖVP district party leader for Linz-Land , a position he held until 1985.

In the XX. On May 3, 1971, he entered the legislative period as a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament , where he was a member of the committee of the rules of procedure as well as deputy chairman of the committee for constitution and administration and the committee for public welfare. In the ÖVP state parliament club, he acted as a social spokesman. It belonged to the state parliament until the end of the XXII. Legislative period , after the state election in 1985 he left the state parliament.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d biography of Franz Hofer on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .
  2. ↑ a b c d e He was an "advocate of the common people" throughout his life. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . April 27, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stroheim
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2020