Gerald Mader

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Gerald Mader in conversation with Reiner Steinweg and Konrad Tempel at the 29th International Summer Academy 2012 in Schlaining Castle

Gerald Mader (born April 1, 1926 in Payerbach ; † May 6, 2019 in Mattersburg ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and lawyer. Mader was a member of the Burgenland state parliament for a short time and from 1971 to 1984 a regional councilor in the Burgenland state government.

Life

Mader was born as the son of the industrial clerk Franz Mader from Payerbach and after the elementary school in Payerbach attended the grammar school in Wiener Neustadt , where he passed the war high school diploma in 1943 . He was then an air force helper from 1943 to 1944 and served in the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945, the last time he was taken prisoner by the United States. After the war studied Mader at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1948 for Dr. jur. From 1949 to 1950 he was legal advisor to the Chamber of Labor for Burgenland and then worked from 1951 to 1958 as a trainee lawyer in the law firm of Dr. E. Hoffenreich in Mattersburg . As a result, Mader worked as a lawyer in Mattersburg between 1958 and 1971.

In addition to his job, Mader was also the Vice President of the Austrian League for Human Rights . As a committed nature lover, he was President of NFI, the International of Nature Friends, from 1987 to 1996 . During his presidency, the expansion to include Eastern European sections and the first African (Senegalese) association.

He was the initiator and 1st chairman of the Burgenland Adult Education Centers and the Burgenland Cultural Centers Association, was the founder-chairman of the Association of Social Democratic Academics, Intellectuals, and Artists in Burgenland between 1966 and 1986 , and between 1969 and 1971 as chief curator of the state hypo Bank. He was also active as a constitutional expert for the SPÖ Burgenland and was active as President of the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution in Stadtschlaining from 1983 , where he founded the European Peace University in 1988 .

In 1972, 1977 and 1982, Mader was a member of the state parliament for a few hours before his election to the regional council and was a member of the regional governments Kery II , III , IV and V between November 3, 1971 and November 19, 1984 , where he among other things led the cultural department. His grave is in the urn grove at the city cemetery in Mattersburg .

literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedensuni founder Gerald Mader is dead. Burgenland.orf.at, May 6, 2019, accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ www.nf-int.org “The Friends of Nature Movement has to take note of the death of its former President Gerald Mader with great regret”, May 2019
  3. ↑ derstandard.at "Ex-Governor Theodor Kery died", May 9, 2010
  4. ↑ Honorary Citizen of Stadtschlaining, Dr. Gerald Mader, deceased. In: stadtschlaining.at. May 6, 2019, accessed August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mader, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Payerbach
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2019
Place of death Mattersburg