Johann Halbritter (politician)
Johann Halbritter (born July 1, 1927 in Neusiedl am See ; † March 20, 2014 ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and architect . Halbritter was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1975 to 1991 and its president from 1987 to 1991.
Career
Halbritter was born as the son of master shoemaker Karl Halbritter from Neusiedl am See and attended elementary and secondary school in Neusiedl am See and the HTL Mödling , where he graduated from high school in 1945. Halbritter had previously been drafted into the Reich Labor Service in July 1944 , and from October 1944 onwards he did military service, where he was an American prisoner of war at the end of the war. Halbritter studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated in 1956 with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. He acquired the license to be an architect in 1962. Since 1947 he was a member of the Catholic student association KaV Austro-Peisonia Vienna in the ÖCV
Halbritter became politically active from 1961 as ÖVP city party chairman of Neusiedl am See, from 1962 he also worked as a local council and from 1967 to 1997 as mayor. On November 19, 1973 he was elected district chairman of the Burgenland Association of Municipalities and from 1975 to 1988 he held the office of ÖVP district party chairman. He represented the ÖVP between November 6, 1975 and July 18, 1991 in the Burgenland State Parliament and was initially club chairman of the ÖVP-Burgenland from 1982 to 1986. Between June 11, 1986 and October 30, 1987 he was the 2nd President of the Burgenland State Parliament, and from October 30, 1987 to July 18, 1991 he was President of the State Parliament.
Awards
- 1991: Great Gold Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 1997: Ring of honor of the city of Neusiedl
literature
- Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research; 76), ISBN 3-901517-07-3
Web links
- News of death on ORF
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ^ Honorary ring holder of the town of Neusiedl am See , accessed on March 20, 2014.
Fischl (age 1922) | Wimmer (1922) | Morawitz (1924) | Brugnak (1925) | Hoffenreich (1927) | Thullner (1930) | Koch (1933 to 1934) | Kast (age 1945) | Wetschka (1945) | Grabenhofer (1949) | Lentsch (1953) | Karall (1956) | Hautzinger (1960) | Sinowatz (1964) | Krikler (1966) | Pinter (1977) | Half Knight (1987) | Dax (1991) | Schranz (1996) | Prior (2000) | Steier (2010) | Illedits (2015) | Haze (2019)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Half knight, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament in Burgenland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neusiedl am See |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 2014 |