Hans Tinhof

Hans Tinhof (born November 7, 1915 in Eisenstadt ; † September 5, 1979 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and principal school director. Tinhof was a member of the Burgenland state parliament and from 1964 to 1971 a regional councilor in the Burgenland state government .

Hans Tinhof was born as the son of the farmer Johann Tinhof from Eisenstadt. He attended elementary and secondary school in Eisenstadt and then the private teacher training institute of the school brothers in Vienna - Strebersdorf , from which he graduated in 1935 with the Matura . He then entered the school service of the Province of Burgenland in 1936 and served in the German Wehrmacht from 1938 to 1945 , where he was taken prisoner by the British. After the end of the war, Tinhof became a secondary school teacher in Eisenstadt in October 1945, and in 1965 he took over the position of principal school director.

Tinhof was a co-founder of the Austrian Gymnastics and Sports Union in Burgenland in 1945 and was elected regional chairman in 1952. He also joined the ÖVP in 1947 and was a councilor in Eisenstadt in 1949. Between 1950 and 1977 he held the office of mayor of the capital of Burgenland, where he was also the ÖVP city party chairman until 1975. Furthermore, from 1965 he was ÖVP district party chairman in the Eisenstadt district and from 1955 to 1974 he was chairman of the “Burgenland Housing, Construction and Settlement Cooperative” and from 1956 to 1969 as vice chairman of the Northern Burgenland water supply association.

Tinhof represented the ÖVP from April 17, 1968 to May 14, 1968 and from July 5, 1971 to November 3, 1972 in the state parliament and was state councilor in the state governments of Bögl , Kery I from June 12, 1964 to July 5, 1971 and Kery II .

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research; 76), ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .