Johann Brunauer

Johann Brunauer (born September 6, 1895 in Lohnsburg am Kobernaußerwald , † September 16, 1958 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and union secretary and master shoemaker. From 1945 to 1958 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and lived in Salzburg.

education and profession

Brunauer was born in Upper Austria and completed an apprenticeship as an orthopedic shoemaker between 1909 and 1912 after attending elementary and community school . After completing his apprenticeship, he went on a hike until 1915 , with his years of wandering in Switzerland, France and Germany. After his return, he did military service in the First World War from 1915 to 1918. After his return from the war he became a foreman in the state prosthesis workshop, and in 1926 he passed the master craftsman examination in the profession he had learned. In 1927 he finally started his own business as a master orthopedic shoemaker in Salzburg.

Politics and functions

Brunauer joined the Social Democratic Party and the Textile and Leather Workers' Union in 1919, where he became a shoemaker's guild master in Salzburg from 1937 to 1938. After the end of the Second World War, from 1945 to 1955 he was employed as the regional guild master of the Salzburg shoemakers, and from 1946 to 1954 he was Vice President of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce . He also worked as a board member of the Federal Chamber of Commerce and was deputy chairman of the master health insurance fund. Within the party, Brunauer was a member of the state party executive of the SPÖ Salzburg from 1947 to 1958, and he also held the position of chairman of the Salzburg regional group in the Free Trade Association from 1952 to 1958. In addition, from 1947 he was chairman of the vocational school council.

Brunauer represented the Social Democratic Party from December 12, 1945 to September 16, 1958 in the Salzburg state parliament.

Awards

After his death in 1968, a street in the district of Salzburg was fief in Johann-Brunauer-Straße named. Furthermore, he was honorary chairman of the Free Trade Association. In 1956 he was awarded the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .