Georg Maier (politician, 1927)

Georg Maier (born March 28, 1927 in Radstadt ; † May 14, 1999 in Hallein ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and mechanic. From 1974 to 1984 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

education and profession

After attending compulsory school, Georg Maier completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the grill works in Hallein. He was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1944 and had to do military service in the German army between 1944 and 1945 during the last two years of the Second World War . He became a prisoner of war in 1945, from which he was only able to return in 1946. After his return from the war in 1946 he worked as a toolmaker in Mitterberghütten , after which he was employed as a skilled worker at Friedmann & Maier in Hallein from 1946 to 1986.

Politics and functions

Georg Maier became the works council of Friedmann & Maier in 1953 and rose to become chairman of the company's works council in 1967. He worked in this function until 1987. Maier was union leader from 1973 to 1981 as deputy chairman of the ÖGB state executive in Salzburg, he was also deputy chairman of the metal-mining-energy union and from 1973 to 1988 a member of the ÖGB state management. He joined the SPÖ in 1953 and was active within the party from 1969 to 1984 as city party leader of the SPÖ Hallein, and from 1974 to 1982 he was deputy SPÖ section chairman in Hallein-Burgfried. At the district level he acted from 1970 to 1984 as deputy district party chairman of the SPÖ Tennengau. He also exercised internal party functions at the state level and was a member of the state party executive of the SPÖ Salzburg between 1978 and 1984.

As a mandate , Maier was active as a member of the Hallein municipal council from 1964 to 1979, after which he was city councilor of Hallein from 1979 to 1984. From 1969 to 1974 he also chaired the SPÖ municipal parliamentary group in Hallein and represented the SPÖ from May 29, 1974 to May 15, 1984 in the Salzburg state parliament. Furthermore, from 1983 to 1985 he was district representative in Tennengau of the Salzburger Volkshilfe and from 1969 to 1974 Chamber Councilor of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor.

Awards

• Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1985)

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 .