Ignaz Withalm

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Ignaz Withalm (born March 23, 1851 in Gaunersdorf , Lower Austria , † September 16, 1910 ibid) was an Austrian miller and politician of the Christian Social Party (CSP). As a member of parliament, he was represented both in the Lower Austrian state parliament and in the Reichsrat .

Life

He came from the large farming milieu of the southern Weinviertel and inherited the Withalmmühle from his father Michael Johann Withalm (1807-1880). From 1876 Ignaz Withalm was involved in the rural professional representation in connection with the emerging political Catholicism . From 1876 he was a member of the community committee, in 1897 he was elected mayor of Gaweinstal (then still Gaunersdorf ). From 1902 until his death in 1910 Ignaz Withalm was a member of the Lower Austrian Landtag . In the first elections to the Reichsrat under universal suffrage in 1907 , he was elected as a Christian social candidate for the constituency of Mistelbach-Matzen-Land . In addition, he held numerous other offices, including director of the savings and advance payment association, vice president of the local railway company Gänserndorf – Gaunersdorf and a member of the district school council and the district road committee. As mayor worked for the rail connection of his home community. Ignaz Withalm was the grandfather of Hermann Withalm , who later became Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Wohnout : Demokratie und Geschichte , Böhlau , Vienna 2009, p. 42 f., Online, accessed on May 30, 2016
  2. ^ Biographical data from Ignaz Withalm in the Biographical Manual of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921

Web links

  • MP Withalm died. In:  Freedom! / Christian-social worker newspaper. Central organ of the Christian-social workers' party in Austria / Christian-social workers newspaper. Central organ of the Christian Social Workers' Party in Austria / Christlichsoziale Arbeiter-Zeitung. Central organ of the Christian Social Workers Party of Austria / Christlichsoziale Arbeiter-Zeitung. Central organ of the Christian Social Workers' Party of Austria / Oesterreichische Arbeiter-Zeitung. Central organ of the Christian workers and employees movement / Oesterreichische Arbeiter-Zeitung. Central organ of the Christian workers and employees movement. Silent hours , September 24, 1910, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / early
personal data
SURNAME Withalm, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (CSP), member of the Reichsrat
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaweinstal
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1910
Place of death Gaweinstal