Johann Koppensteiner

This article describes the Austrian politician and engine driver Johann Koppensteiner; for the Austrian clergyman of the same name and abbot von Zwettl see Bertrand Koppensteiner .

Johann Koppensteiner (born June 23, 1886 in Waldenstein , † December 31, 1958 in Bruck an der Leitha ) was an Austrian train driver for the Austrian Federal Railways and politician ( SPÖ ). He was a member of the Burgenland Landtag and the Lower Austrian Landtag .

Life

Johann Koppensteiner was born as the son of the business owner Johann Koppensteiner from Waldenstein. He attended elementary school and then two classes at the commercial advanced training school in Gmünd . After his school education and an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Koppensteiner went on tour for three years and worked in Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and Italy. In 1908 Koppensteiner entered the service of the Austrian State Railways and worked as a locksmith and later as a locomotive driver and machine master for the Austrian Federal Railways. Koppensteiner was based in Bruckneudorf from May 1923 and retired on January 31, 1933.

Koppensteiner was married.

politics

Koppensteiner was politically active in the Social Democratic Labor Party. Between 1925 and 1934 he was second vice-president of the Burgenland Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees / Chamber of Labor and from 1928 and 1934 he was a member of the state executive of the free trade unions. In addition, Koppensteiner was a member of the state party executive committee of the SDAP and the state party control. Koppensteiner moved up to the Burgenland Landtag on December 13, 1927 as a replacement for the resigned Landtag member Oskar Brugnak , to which he was a member until December 5, 1930.

He was arrested after the Social Democratic Party was banned in 1934 and was imprisoned again in 1938 and 1944 under the rule of the National Socialists.

After the Second World War he was mayor of Bruck an der Leitha from 1945 to 1947 and from December 12, 1945 to November 5, 1949 a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 1: (1921-1938). Rötzer, Eisenstadt 1972.
• Lower Austria Landtag Directorate (ed.): Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Landtag and the Lower Austrian provincial government 1921–2000 (= Lower Austria publications. Volume 128). Lower Austria Landtag Directorate , St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2 .

Web links

• Johann Koppensteiner on the website of the Lower Austrian Parliament