Franz Lanik

Franz Josef Lanik (born April 30, 1915 in Vienna - Ottakring ; † February 22, 1993 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and advisor to the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor. From 1969 to 1979 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Lanik attended elementary school in Vienna and completed an apprenticeship as a sign and sign painter between 1929 and 1932, where he attended the advanced training school for three years. He worked in advertising painting from 1932 to 1940 and served in World War II from 1940. In 1945 he returned from Soviet captivity. As a result, from 1945 he worked as a central works council chairman at the Nestle Group in Vienna and later moved to Vorarlberg, where he was active as a works council at the Maggi company in Bregenz from 1952. In 1956 he attended the social academy in Vienna and was state secretary of the union of food and luxury goods workers. Since the 1960s he worked as a consultant for the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor and was responsible for the labor market and guest worker issues. In July 1976 he retired.

Politics and functions

Lanik joined the SPÖ in May 1950 and was active in local politics from 1960 as a member of the Feldkirch municipal council. He represented the SPÖ from October 29, 1969 to November 5, 1979 in the Vorarlberg state parliament, where he was the area spokesman for agriculture in the SPÖ state parliament club and was a member of the legal committee, the social policy committee and, from 1970, the culture committee. In his second period in the Vorarlberg state parliament, Lanik was a member of the agricultural committee, member and deputy chairman of the social policy committee and until 1976 a member of the culture committee. From 1966 to 1976, he was the party chairman of the SPÖ Feldkirch and was also a member of the SPÖ Vorarlberg state party committee. He was also the district chairman of the Social Democratic Trade Union Party in Feldkirch, from 1964 to 1969 a member of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor and from 1964 to 1969 a member of the board of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Labor. He was also vice-president of the Vorarlberg civil protection association, employee representative in the administrative committee of the Vorarlberg state employment office and district chairman or deputy chairman of the Vorarlberger Volkshilfe. He was also Vice President of the Civil Protection Association, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Feldkirch Pedagogical Academy and a member of the Board of Trustees of Vorarlberger Landesfeuerversicherung.

Private

Lanik was the son of the Moravian master carpenter Franz Lanik (1889-1916) and his wife Maria Lanik, who was also born in Moravia. He married Hedwig Pec in 1940 and had a son and two daughters.

Awards

• Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria (1976)
• Golden Badge of Honor of the Civil Defense Association (1978)

Web links

• Biography of Franz Lanik (PDF; 67 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.