Heinrich Übleis

Heinrich Josef Übleis (born February 3, 1933 in Edt bei Lambach , Upper Austria ; † December 14, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian administrative lawyer, manager and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

Übleis, a laborer's son, attended secondary school in Wels and graduated in 1952. In November 1953, he started working at the post office in Scharnstein and was trained as a post office manager. After he was transferred to Vienna in 1955, he completed a part-time law degree . After receiving his doctorate in 1959, he moved to the Post and Telegraph Administration Department in Vienna (Postal Law and Operations Department) and from 1965 worked in the budget department of the General Directorate for Post and Telegraph Administration.

In 1970 he became secretary to the then Minister of Transport, Erwin Frühbauer, and from 1979 to 1985 he was General Post Director. In 1985 he switched to politics and headed the Federal Ministry for Buildings and Technology until 1987 . In this role, he pushed through the first “Sparautobahn” sections. In 1987 the then Transport Minister Rudolf Streicher appointed him General Director of the Austrian Federal Railways . He held this post until his retirement in 1993. He then got involved in private senior living and nursing home projects.

Heinrich Übleis is buried in the Neustift cemetery in Vienna (group 17, row 4, number 1).

Web links

• Entry on Heinrich Übleis in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Heinrich Übleis on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Heinrich Übleis in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ORF-Online: Heinrich Übleis is dead ; Retrieved December 23, 2013
2. ^ Munzinger: Heinrich Übleis ; Retrieved December 23, 2013