Franz Holter

Franz Holter (born November 26, 1842 in Wels , Upper Austria ; † April 3, 1921 there ) was an Austrian politician ( German People's Party ) and iron merchant. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives and a councilor in Wels.

Life

Holter was born as the son of the silversmith Karl Holter and attended the lower secondary school in Kremsmünster Abbey . He completed an apprenticeship in trade at the Ehrenletzberger company in Linz and worked in trading houses in Steyr , Budapest and Graz . From 1868 he worked in an iron shop in Wels, and in 1873 he finally started his own business as an iron trader in Wels. For this he bought the iron company Johann Jax from Wels and named it after his name. In addition to his job, Holter was active in various organizations, where he was particularly involved in the expansion of regional local railways. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, member of the Wels savings bank committee and most recently of the board of directors. Furthermore, Holter was a member of the museum committee and was head of the local branch of the Alpine Club and the local branch of the Red Cross. He was also an active gymnast, honorary member of the gymnastics club and deputy regional chairman of the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Association.

Holter ran for the Reichsrat election in 1901 in the constituency of the Upper Austrian cities 4 (Wels, Lambach, Grieskirchen etc.) and was able to achieve a mandate. Subsequently, he represented the German People's Party in the House of Representatives until 1907. After the introduction of the general, equal male suffrage, he ran in the Reichsrat election in 1907 in the newly created constituency Upper Austria 4 , but was defeated by the candidate of the Catholic-Conservative Party Josef Zaunegger in the runoff election.

Holter was married to Maria Göllerich from 1874 and had at least two sons. He was the son-in-law of the pianist August Göllerich .

Awards

• Honorary citizen of the city of Wels
• Golden Cross of Merit with the crown

literature

• Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 475.
• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1861 to 1918. Upper Austrian state publisher, Linz 1983, ISBN 3-85214-381-0 , p. 118 f.

Web links

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