Franz Loser

Franz Loser

Franz Xaver Loser (born March 12, 1862 in Rieden near Bregenz , † February 15, 1923 in Bregenz) was an Austrian politician ( CS ) and master shoemaker . Loser was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1902 to 1914 , from 1918 to 1923 as a regional councilor, a member of the Vorarlberg state government and in 1919 also deputy governor. In the years from 1897 to 1918 he was also a member of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat .

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Franz Xaver Loser was born on March 12, 1862, the son of day laborer Franz Magnus Loser and his wife Anna Maria in the Kennelbach district of Rieden (now Bregenz). Immediately after attending primary school, Franz Loser worked as an apprentice in the Schwärzler gold factory in Bregenz, before starting an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. At first he was employed as a shoemaker's journeyman at the Krafft shoe factory in Wolfurt , later he acquired the professional title of master shoemaker. When Kennelbach separated from the Rieden district and this became an independent municipality, Franz Loser was appointed to the Rieden municipal council.

From 1897, Franz Loser from Vorarlberg was a delegated member of the House of Representatives in the Austrian Reichsrat in Vienna . The Christian Social Loser was also a member of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria , which was founded after 1918 . In Vorarlberg he was appointed to the state parliament on June 21, 1902 as the successor to Josef Büchele, who was leaving the state parliament. In the elections that followed, he was initially a member of the general Bregenz - Bregenzerwald electorate and from 1909 a member of the rural communities for the Bregenz - Bregenzerwald constituency. In 1914 he left the state parliament, but in 1918 he was appointed by Governor Otto Ender as a state councilor in the Vorarlberg state government. In 1919 he briefly held the position of deputy governor.

literature

• Karl Heinz Burmeister :  Loser Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 327.
• Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in parliament and government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848-2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Communications from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 , p. 286–290 ( full text as PDF on the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv website ).

Web links

• Biography of Franz Loser in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
• Franz Loser on the website of the Austrian Parliament