Franz Huber (politician, 1846)

Franz Huber

Franz Huber (born November 4, 1846 in Vienna , † January 15, 1919 in Schwadorf , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( CS ), farmer and brickworks owner. He was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament , member of the Austrian House of Representatives and mayor of Schwadorf.

Life

Huber was born the son of an innkeeper. He attended elementary school and lower secondary school in Vienna and moved to Schwadorf in the 1860s, where he took over his grandfather's farm in 1876 and subsequently worked as a farmer. He also later bought a brick factory in Schwadorf.

Huber was active as a member of the community committee of Schwadorf from 1876 and also acted as mayor between 1876 and 1891. After that he was a member of the community council until 1919. Huber also worked as a member of the district school council and was a member of the district road committee. He also founded the Schwadorfer Lagerhaus, was a co-founder of the Sparkasse and partly a managing member of the regional culture council.

Huber was first elected to the Lower Austrian state parliament in 1896, to which he belonged until the end of the last legislative period of the Habsburg monarchy on January 8, 1915. Most recently, he represented the constituency of the rural communities in the judicial districts of Bruck an der Leitha , Hainburg and Schwechat . Huber was also a member of the provisional provincial assembly of Lower Austria, but did not take part in its work. For the House of Representatives Huber ran for the first time in the Reichsrat election in 1901 , where he was elected in the constituency of the rural communities of Lower Austria 8. In the 1907 Reichsrat election , Huber achieved 80 percent in the first ballot in the Lower Austria 52 constituency , but he was unable to defend the mandate in the 1911 Reichsrat election. In the runoff election he was defeated by the independent Christian socialist Franz Parrer with just 49.3 percent. Huber was a member of the House of Representatives during the Xth and XI legislative periods between January 31, 1901 and March 30, 1911 and was a member of the Christian Social Association.

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to the Biographical Handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament in 1861, according to Freund: "The Austrian House of Representatives" in 1866

literature

• Biographical handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
• 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. 492.
• Fritz Freund: The Austrian House of Representatives. A Biographical-Statistical Handbook, 1907-1913, XI. Legislative period (XVIII session). Wiener Verlag, Vienna, Leipzig 1907, p. 161.