Franz Reinprecht

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Franz Reinprecht (born November 21, 1886 in Leoben , Styria , † August 30, 1929 in Baden , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ).

Life

Franz Reinprecht, although born in the Waasen district of Leoben, grew up in Friesach in Carinthia , where he attended elementary school. After graduation at the high school in Klagenfurt he studied at the University of Vienna Law . He received his doctorate in 1914 . From 1918 he found work in the Post and Telegraph Directorate in Klagenfurt, where he rose to the Postrat, a kind of department head.

In 1918 Reinprecht was elected as a member of the CSP in the Carinthian state parliament, to which he was then to belong until 1923. In March 1920 he was one of the founding members of the Carinthian Homeland Service , in which all political camps and directions were represented at that time. Under Vinzenz Schumy from the Landbund , Reinprecht was one of two deputies. From 1922 he held the office of president of the state parliament .

In November 1923 Reinprecht was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . He was a Federal Councilor until his death, six years later. From December 1, 1925 to May 31, 1926, Reinprecht chaired the second Austrian Chamber of Parliament as President of the Federal Council .

Franz Reinprecht died in August 1929 at the age of 42.

He was a member of the Catholic student union Karantania Klagenfurt and as such a founder of Gothia Klagenfurt (merged in Babenberg Klagenfurt after World War II).

Today the Franz-Reinprecht-Weg in Klagenfurt bears the name of the politician.

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Individual evidence

  1. "The Catholic student associations in Carinthia", p. 24 (commemorative publication on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the referendum in Carinthia, Ed. Regional Association of Carinthia of the MKV)