Heinz Bereuter

Heinz Bereuter (born September 16, 1932 in Bregenz ) is a former Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and entrepreneur. From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After primary school in Hard, Bereuter attended secondary school in Dornbirn and completed an apprenticeship as a dyer. He passed the journeyman's examination and also worked as a printer and appreteur. After attending the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences between 1953 and 1956, he graduated as a textile engineer in the field of textile chemistry in 1956. In addition, he worked as an assistant at the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences until 1956. Due to a traffic accident that was not his fault, Bereuter was unable to work from 1956 to 1958, and in 1959 he founded the Heinzelmännchen OHG. He gradually expanded his company into the strongest sales specialist for dry cleaning in Vorarlberg and also founded a branch in Vienna. In 1978 he sold the company, but continued to run a research and development laboratory that had applied for several dozen patents since 1976.

Politics and functions

From 1966, Bereuter was a member of the Austrian People's Party and the Austrian Economic Association, where he held the internal party function of local chairman of the Hard Economic Association between 1966 and 1980. As a member of the Bregenz constituency, he represented the Austrian People's Party from November 13, 1974 to November 5, 1979 in the state parliament. He succeeded Konrad Blank, who was elected to the regional council . As a deputy, he was a member of the finance committee, a member of the legal committee and a member of the energy policy committee and, during his time in the state parliament, also a member of the state party leadership of the ÖVP Vorarlberg. Furthermore, he was the deputy district chairman of the Bregenz Economic Association.

Bereuter was also a substitute member of the Hard municipal council from 1970 to 1975 and a member of the local council from 1975 to 1980, where he chaired the economic committee as chairman.

Private

Heinz Bereuter's father, Josef Bereuter, ran the “Schiff” inn in Hard and was an authorized signatory at Gebrüder Wolff OHG. Like his wife Ida Bereuter, née Moosbrugger, he came from Hard. Heinz Bereuter married Theresia Werderitsch in 1959 and between 1960 and 1966 had a daughter and two sons.

Web links

• Biography of Heinz Bereuter (PDF; 86 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.