Jakob Ammann (politician)

Jakob Ammann , actually Johann Jakob Ammann , (born June 12, 1881 in Rankweil ; † September 29, 1955 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP / ÖVP ) and businessman. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Ammann attended elementary school in Rankweil and then switched to Feldkirch high school. In 1908 he bought a shop in his home town of Rankweil and subsequently worked as a businessman. During the First World War he was an administrative officer in the prisoner-of-war camp in Salzburg-Grödig.

Politics and functions

Ammann was a leader in gymnastics, where he was a co-founder, chairman and honorary member of the Rankweil gymnastics association and was one of the founders of the Vorarlberg Rheingau. He also worked as Vice President of the Rheingau from 1933 to 1938. He was also active in the professional representation, worked from 1936 to 1938 as a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Feldkirch, was a member of the vocational training committee of the trade section and a member of the examination committee for the examination of clerks. Between 1945 and 1955 he was also deputy head of the iron trade committee of the Chamber of Commerce.

He was politically active as a member of the Christian Social Party, was a member of the state management of the Fatherland Front of Vorarlberg and from 1936 to 1938 a representative of trade and transport on the advisory board of the state leader. As a member of the Feldkirch electoral district, he was sworn in on March 3, 1934 as the successor to Josef Rüf in the Vorarlberg state parliament. He was a member of the regular state parliament until it was dissolved on November 13, 1934 and was appointed to the state parliament by the Vorarlberg governor to represent the trade and transport profession. Ammann was a member of the state parliament from November 14, 1934 until the annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938. In terms of local politics, Ammann was a member of the Rankweil municipal council from 1919 to 1938, and from 1920 to 1934 he was chairman of the local school council and in 1919 and 1936 to 1938 he was deputy chairman of the local school council.

After the Second World War, Ammann became a member of the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) in 1945 and was again a member of the Rankweil municipal council from 1945 to 1948 and deputy chairman of the local school council from 1945 to 1955.

Ammann was also a member and deputy chairman in the parish church council, a member of the Catholic Youth Association and from 1945 to 1955 lay judge at the Feldkirch regional court.

Private

Jakob Ammann was born the son of the Rankweiler farmer Theodor Ammann (1844–1911) and his wife Maria Agatha Sohler (1846–1905). On November 20, 1905, he married Cäcilia Graber (1880–1924), also born in Rankweil, and between 1907 and 1922 had nine children.

Awards

• Large honorary sheet of the German gymnastics association

Web links

• Biography of Jakob Ammann (PDF; 92 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.