Fritz Schorn

Fritz Schorn (born July 1, 1919 in Salzburg , † August 19, 2004 in Grödig ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and trade union secretary. From 1954 to 1965 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and lived in Grödig.

education and profession

Fritz Schorn was born in Salzburg and attended elementary school in his home community from 1925 to 1929 and then from 1929 to 1933 secondary school. After compulsory school, Schorn worked as a youthful unskilled worker between 1933 and 1935 before he learned the trade of bricklayer from 1935 to 1938 and completed the Salzburg trade school and the commercial advanced training school for the building trade in Salzburg. After the National Socialists came to power, he joined the Reich Labor Service in 1938 , after which he served as a soldier in the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 .

After his return from the war in 1945, Schorn became an employee of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor. He worked from 1945 to 1951 as the youth secretary of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (ÖGB) and was then from 1951 to 1954 second secretary of the ÖGB state executive in Salzburg. Schorn then worked from 1954 to 1981 as state secretary of the ÖGB state executive in Salzburg.

Politics and functions

Schorn joined the Social Democratic Party in 1945 and worked within the party from 1948 to 1975 as local party chairman of the SPÖ local group Gröding and from 1949 to 1964 as district party chairman of the SPÖ Flachgau. At the state level he held the function of a member of the state party executive of the SPÖ Salzburg from 1960 to 1966. At the local political level, he worked as a community representative in Grödig between 1949 and 1954, after which he took over the office of Vice Mayor from 1954 to 1964. Between 1964 and 1983 he was mayor of the community of Grödig. In addition, Schorn was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from December 11, 1954 to March 23, 1965.

In addition to his political mandates, Schorn was a member of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor from 1945 to 1981 , from 1959 to 1982 he was a member of the board of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor and from 1964 to 1969 Chairman of the Salzburg Regional Health Insurance Fund .

Awards

• Honorary citizen of the community of Grödig
• Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1979)
• Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg (1983)

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .