Franz Natter

Franz Ludwig Natter (born November 16, 1869 in Bludenz , † March 21, 1930 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian politician ( GDVP ) and a public school teacher. From 1912 to 1914 and from 1918 to 1928 Natter was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament , from 1918 to 1923 as a regional councilor, a member of the Vorarlberg state government and in 1918 and 1919 also third deputy governor.

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Franz Natter was born on November 16, 1869 as the son of the baker Josef Anton Natter and his wife Maria Benedikta in the district capital Bludenz. After attending elementary school in Bludenz, Natter was at the teacher training institute in Bregenz from 1884 to 1888 and completed an internship as a teacher at the four-class elementary school in Gmünd in Carinthia in the school year 1888/1889 . In 1890 he passed the teaching qualification test in Innsbruck for admission as a teacher at elementary and community schools and subsequently taught as a specialist teacher at the boys' community school in Bregenz until 1918. In 1923 he was appointed as a specialist teacher at the girls' community school, where he also became director. He later became the co-founder and head of the commercial training school in Bregenz.

Natter became politically active for the first time as a member of the city ​​council of Bregenz in 1896. As a result, he became city councilor for finances in 1903, which he remained until 1923. During this time, from 1903 to 1912 and from 1918 to 1923, he was also Vice Mayor of Bregenz twice.

On September 30, 1912, Franz Natter succeeded MP Ferdinand Kinz as a member of the Vorarlberg State Parliament as MP for the city of Bregenz. In the same year he also became a substitute member of the state committee for his party colleague Josef Wegler . From November 3, 1918, Natter was a member of the provisional state assembly, state councilor for finances and until December 27, also the first deputy state president, then third deputy governor. He was a member of the state government until 1923, when he was appointed second vice president of the state parliament. On April 1, 1928, Franz Natter finally resigned from all political positions.

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• Biography of Franz Natter in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.