Herbert Keßler (politician)

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Herbert Keßler (1981)
Herbert Keßler with family (1973)

Herbert Keßler (born February 2, 1925 in Bludesch ; † July 27, 2018 in Rankweil ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( ÖVP ). From 1964 to 1987 he was Governor of Vorarlberg .

Life

education and profession

Herbert Keßler was the son of the community doctor Hermann Keßler and his wife, the pharmacist Elfriede Keßler. In 1927 he and his family moved from Bludesch to Rankweil in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley , where he attended elementary school from 1931 to 1935. He then went from 1935 to 1938 to the lower school of the Stella Matutina grammar school in Feldkirch . The Matura put Herbert Kessler in 1943 from at the State School for Boys in Feldkirch. Immediately after completing his school career, Keßler was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in April 1943 and later for military service in the German Wehrmacht .

After the end of the war, Herbert Keßler was able to begin studying law at the University of Innsbruck in 1945 . At the same time, he completed the high school graduation course at the Innsbruck Commercial Academy in 1947/48 . On March 18, 1949, he completed his studies successfully with the promotion to Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.). Immediately after that he joined in April 1949 to March 1950 be permanent Court clerk of courts in Dornbirn and Feldkirch. On April 1, 1950, he joined the state service as an administrative lawyer and worked in the finance and social department in the offices of the Vorarlberg state government and the Feldkirch district authority . In 1957 he was released from duty in order to be able to take up the office of mayor of Rankweil and subsequently the office of governor.

Herbert Keßler participates in government
State government Keßler I
1964–1969: Governor
State government Keßler II
1969–1974: Governor
State government Keßler III
1974–1979: Governor
State government Keßler IV
1979–1984: Governor
State government Keßler V
1984–1987: Governor

Political career

Herbert Keßler joined the Austrian People's Party on November 23, 1945 at his university in Innsbruck . In December 1952 he became local party chairman of the ÖVP Rankweil, where he was elected to the local council for the first time in 1955 . In the state elections in 1954 , Keßler ran for the Vorarlberg People's Party in the Feldkirch electoral district and was able to win a seat in the Vorarlberg state parliament . As a result, on November 26, 1954, he was sworn in for the first time as a candidate for regional councilor Eduard Ulmer as a member of the state parliament.

On December 14, 1957, Keßler was elected mayor of the market town of Rankweil as the successor to Rudolf Ammann, which he remained until 1964. On April 4, 1964, he took over the chairmanship of the Vorarlberg People's Party from Governor Ulrich Ilg , who finally proposed him as his successor at the first state parliament session after the 1964 state elections on October 29, 1964. The Vorarlberg state parliament followed this proposal and elected Herbert Keßler as governor and chairman of the state government Keßler I , a concentration government with the SPÖ and the FPÖ that was common in Vorarlberg at that time . The previous governor Ilg worked in this state government to support his successor as the state councilor for finance and building construction. Keßler himself, as governor, initially headed the presidium, school and culture departments, and from 1974 also took on responsibility for maternity and baby care.

On July 9, 1987, Herbert Keßler finally said goodbye to active state politics and, after a 23-year term in office, handed over the office of governor to his successor, the then president of the state parliament, Martin Purtscher . Keßler also left the Vorarlberg state parliament on July 10, 1987.

Private life

Keßler had been with Inge, geb. Beck, married and had three children with her. He lived in the Vorarlberg market town of Rankweil.

Herbert Keßler died at the age of 93 on the night of July 28, 2018.

Awards

literature

  • Herbert Kessler, Gerhard Wanner: Work for Vorarlberg. Three decades of state politics. Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt, Dornbirn 2005. ISBN 3-85430-234-7 (autobiography).

Web links

Commons : Herbert Keßler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deceased Dr. Herbert Keßler. Trauerhilfe Bestattungs GesmbH, accessed on July 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich Nachbaur : Vorarlberg State Governments since 1945 as of January 1, 2005. (pdf, 154 kB) (No longer available online.) Vorarlberg State Archives , February 10, 2006, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on July 31, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  3. ↑ Former Governor Herbert Keßler is dead. In: Vorarlberg Online . July 30, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bludesch
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2018
Place of death Rankweil