Hermann Stecher

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Hermann Stecher

Hermann Stecher (born July 18, 1926 in Bludenz ; † October 31, 1983 there ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ). From 1969 to 1979 Stecher was a member of the Vorarlberg Landtag for the Socialists , serving as the second vice-president of the Landtag from 1976 to 1979. In 1969/70 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state government for a short time as a regional councilor .

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Hermann Stecher was born on July 18, 1926, the son of the lampist Sebastian Stecher and his wife Albina in the Vorarlberg district capital Bludenz . He first attended elementary and secondary school in his hometown and then switched to the commercial school in Feldkirch . From July 1942 he worked as a municipal clerk at the city office of Bludenz. In 1943 he was drafted first for Reich Labor Service and then for military service in the German Wehrmacht , where he was also taken prisoner of war . Stecher did not return to his homeland until June 1945, where he was appointed head of the personnel department of the city of Bludenz in 1947.

Hermann Stecher first became politically active in May 1955 when he was elected a member of the city council for the Bludenz socialists . His appointment to the City Council for Forestry and Social Affairs took place in November 1957. As a result of the state election on October 19, 1969 , Hermann Stecher was elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament for the first time as a member of the Bludenz electoral district . At the same time he was appointed to the newly formed state government Keßler II to the SPÖ state councilor for social administration, welfare and health care as well as the state hospitals Gaisbühel and Valduna . However, on June 24, 1970, he handed over the office of regional councilor to his party colleague Walter Peter , since he took office as mayor of the city of Bludenz on May 9, 1970.

In the state parliament, Stecher held the post of deputy club chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary group from 1974 and from December 15, 1976, as the successor to Elmar Steurer, the office of second vice-president of the state parliament. After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1979 , Hermann Stecher left the Vorarlberg state parliament on November 5, 1979. He remained mayor of Bludenz until his death on October 31, 1983.

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