Hans Kohler (politician, 1947)

Hans Kohler (born July 20, 1947 in Schwarzach ) is an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ). From 1994 to 2008 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament and from 1990 to 2008 mayor of the market town of Rankweil .

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Kohler is a trained banker. He began his political activity in 1966 in the Junge ÖVP in Vorarlberg. There he was co-founder and first chairman of the Schwarzach branch. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was a leader in the strongly federalist citizens' initiative “Pro Vorarlberg” and supported the movement.

In 1985, Kohler ran for the first time in the municipal council elections in Rankweil. In 1988 he was elected to the municipal council of the market town and the following year he was elected to the council of the town of Rankweil. In 1990 he became mayor of his home parish and, after the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1994, he was the first member of the Vorarlberg state parliament. He also ran successfully for re-election in the 1999 and 2004 state elections.

Following the municipal council election in April 1995, Kohler was re-elected to the office of mayor by the municipal council. After the introduction of the new electoral law, Kohler was re-elected with an absolute majority in the direct mayor elections in 2000 and 2005 in the first ballot.

In the Landtag, Hans Kohler was a member of the following committees until his resignation in 2008: Economic Committee, Control Committee and Ombudsman Committee (there as a deputy), Finance Committee (1999), Agriculture Committee (1999), Legal Committee (1999) and EU Committee (1999) , which he then took over as chairman in 2004.

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Hans Kohler's great-grandfather Johann Kohler (1839-1916) was one of the founders of the conservative movement in Vorarlberg in the 1860s and was himself a member of the state parliament, a member of the state committee and a member of the Reichsrat. His great-great-grandfather Gebhard Schwärzler was also politically active in Schwarzach as a head of state and a member of the state parliament.

Web links

• Biography of Hans Kohler in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg Landtag.