Gebhard Grabher

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Gebhard Grabher (born October 5, 1889 in Lustenau ; † July 30, 1966 in Dornbirn ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ), embroiderer and railway worker. From 1945 to 1948 and from 1953 to 1954 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Grabher graduated from elementary school in Lustenau and did military service in the First World War from 1914. During the war he became a prisoner of war, from which he was only able to return in 1919. Grabher worked as a sticker and as a railroad worker and worker at the Rüsch-Werke Dornbirn. During the Second World War he was conscripted, but was arrested on March 25, 1940 for "subversive behavior" and transferred to the Feldkirch Regional Court on May 12, 1940 . At the end of the war he was taken to Tyrol as a hostage.

Politics and functions

Grabher was active in local politics for several decades, where he was first sworn in in 1924 as a member of the municipal council of Lustenau. He was a member of the Lustenau municipal council until 1934, where he lost his mandate as a result of the Austrian Civil War and the resulting ban on the Social Democratic Party. After the end of the Second World War, Grabher was elected Vice Mayor of Lustenau in 1945. He held the office until 1950 and was a member of the Lustenau municipal council and council from May 13, 1950 to April 22, 1960.

At the state level, Grabher was sworn in on December 11, 1945 as a member of the state parliament for the Feldkirch electoral district. He was a member of the state parliament until October 21, 1948, when he left the state parliament after the resignation of his mandate. Then he was from October 26, 1953 to October 28, 1954 again a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament, where he had moved up in 1953 for Franz Katzengruber . During the first parliamentary term after the Second World War, Grabher was a member of the finance committee and a member of the agricultural committee; from 1953 he was not a member of the committee.

Grabher was a founding member and chairman of the Lustenau Workers' Gymnastics Club and was involved within the party as a member of the state party control of the SPÖ Vorarlberg.

Private

Gebhard Grabher was born out of wedlock to Franziska Grabher and lost his mother at the age of five. With Franziska Hollenstein (1899–1982) from Lustenau he had three sons and a daughter who were born in 1921, 1923, 1926 and 1929.

Awards

  • Great Silver Medal of Valor (World War I)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Stetter, Siegfried König: Lustenauer family book. Federsee-Verlag, Konstanz 2012, ISBN 978-3-925171-96-3 , page II / 310
personal data
SURNAME Grabher, Gebhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the Vorarlberg state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustenau
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1966
Place of death Dornbirn