Johann Pum

Johann Pum (born February 17, 1904 in Pama ; † February 13, 1975 in Traismauer ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and master wagoner. Pum was married and from 1949 to 1953 a member of the Burgenland Landtag .

Pum was born as the son of small farmer Simon Pum and grew up speaking Burgenland-Croatian . He attended elementary school in Pama and then worked in his parents' farm and as an agricultural worker in Neudorf near Parndorf and Gattendorf . He learned the trade of the Wagner and became a Wagner journeyman. Between 1927 and 1929 he served as a volunteer in the Austrian Armed Forces and then emigrated to Canada , where he found work as an employee in agriculture and the wood industry. For family reasons, he returned to Pama in 1932 and took over his parents' farm. After he had passed the master craftsman examination in 1938, he was active as a farmer and master wagoner, from 1943 he did military service in the Wehrmacht , where he was taken prisoner of war by the Soviets, from which he did not return until 1946.

After the Second World War, Pum was a local councilor and mayor of Pama between 1948 and 1954. He also represented the ÖVP from November 4, 1949 to March 19, 1953 in the Burgenland state parliament. After difficulties arose in the ÖVP faction in Pama and the establishment of a list of names, Pum left the ÖVP and was finally mayor for the ÖVP / unit list again from 1959 to 1962. Pum ultimately closed his business and handed over what was once his parents' farm to a relative. Pum moved to Traismauer in 1970, where he finally died in 1975.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .