Franz Josef Naumann

Franz Josef Naumann (born November 28, 1904 in Jaroslau , Galicia , † June 30, 1980 in Rankweil ) was an Austrian politician ( CS , ÖVP ) and state party secretary. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After attending primary school in Vienna, Naumann switched to the lower level of a Viennese grammar school. He then completed an apprenticeship as an office clerk in the Gustav Feith export business in Vienna until 1923 and attended the advanced training school of the Viennese business community for three years. In addition, he took evening courses at the Technological Trade Museum in Vienna. From 1922 to 1927 he worked as a post-calculator for the Wiener Maschinenfabrik Körting AG and then in 1927 was a short-term office worker at Gustav Feith in Vienna. In 1927 he moved to Vorarlberg and between 1928 and 1930 worked as editor of a philatelic journal in Dornbirn . He then became editor of the Vorarlberger Landeszeitung from 1930 to 1938 . For political reasons, after the National Socialists came to power in 1938, Naumann was given “ protective custody ” for several months . In addition, a reprimand and a professional ban as a journalist were pronounced against him. Naumann therefore worked from October 1938 as an employee of the agricultural debt relief office in Immenstadt and then moved to Bergreichenstein in the Sudetenland, where he worked in the agricultural sector from March 1940 to 1943 and illegally wrote publications for various magazines. He was then called up for military service in World War II in 1943, returning from British captivity in 1945. After his return he worked again in the journalistic field until April 1946 and was then employed from May 1946 to 1969 as state party secretary of the ÖVP-Vorarlberg.

Politics and functions

Naumann was involved in the interwar period as a co-founder of the Reich Association of Catholic Youth in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau , where he was also a member of the Christian-German gymnastics association. He took over the position of shop steward for the Christian Social Party in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau and was active as a national representative at the Austrian journalists' union from 1930. He was also a member of the Vorarlberg Homeland Service and chairman of the Vorarlberg Writers' Association. He also worked as the cultural administrator of the Fatherland Front and was chairman of the parents' association of the Bregenz Commercial Academy . As a member of the Bregenz constituency, he represented the Austrian People's Party from October 29, 1959 to October 28, 1964 in the Vorarlberg state parliament, where he was also a member of the agricultural committee. He worked within the party from 1946 to 1969 as a member of the state party presidium of the ÖVP Vorarlberg as well as a member of the state party leadership of the ÖVP Vorarlberg and was a member of the state party council of the ÖVP Vorarlberg from 1950 to 1959. In addition, Naumann was active as chairman of the Vorarlberger Bauernbund and co-opted member of the regional group board of the ÖAAB Vorarlberg and was a member of the regional management of the Vorarlberg Economic Association.

Private

Naumann was born as the son of the kk military master craftsman Franz Naumann (1872-1909) from Vöcklabruck . He married Anny Jirsa in 1935 and had three children born between 1936 and 1940.

Awards

• Gold Medal of Honor of the Austrian Youth Movement (1968)
• Honorary member of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Federal Trade Academy Bregenz (1973)

Web links

• Biography of Franz Josef Naumann (PDF; 102 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.