Johannes Thurnher

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Johannes Thurnher (also: Johann Thurnher ; * December 10, 1838 in Dornbirn - Haselstauden ; † September 22, 1909 in Dornbirn) was an Austrian merchant, wine merchant and politician. From 1873 to 1891 he was a Conservative member of the Austrian House of Representatives of the Reichsrat and from 1870 to 1902 a member of the Vorarlberg Landtag .

Life

Thurnher first attended elementary school in Haselstauden and then completed the two-class lower secondary school in Dornbirn. He continued his education at the trading institute in Lindau and finally joined the wine shop of his unmarried uncle Mathäus Thurnher (* August 28, 1792, † April 11, 1878) as an accountant.

Thurnher became a member of the Dornbirn community committee and worked as a conservative member of the rural communities for the Feldkirch-Dornbirn constituency in the Vorarlberg state parliament, of which he was a member from 1870 to 1902. At the same time he was a member of the state committee between 1871 and 1902. He was elected a member of the Austrian House of Representatives in 1873 and was sworn in as a member of parliament on December 10, 1873. He subsequently belonged to the Reichsrat between the 8th and 10th session and the 5th and 7th legislative period and left it at the end of the 1891 Reichsrat season. During his membership in the House of Representatives, he joined the right-wing party and campaigned in particular for issues relevant to the state of Vorarlberg, such as building taxes and the flood disaster. Furthermore, the "religious edification" of the people and soldiers was important to him.

Thurnher was also involved as the head of the magazine "Die Vereinsblüthen" (later "Landbote") and was co-initiator of the teachers' seminar founded in 1888. He was also a member of the regional school board, a member of the Tyrol-Vorarlberg regional defense authority and a member of the Piusverein, the St. Vincent's Conference, the Elisabethen-Verein and the Kneipverein. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Catholic Press Association and a founding member of the Catholic-Political People's Association. In the Volksverein he was also a board member from 1872 to 1888, but then resigned from this position after a conflict with Vicar General Johannes Zöbl . In addition, Thurnher was the founder and chairman of the constitutional-Catholic citizens' casino in Dornbirn.

Private

Johannes Thurnher was the son of the farmer and carter Josef Anton Thurnher (1782-1870) and his wife Maria Christina Ölz (1811-1854). His parents were also born and died in Haselstauden and Dornbirn. He married Christina Amalia Lins (1855-1893), who was born in Feldkirch, on July 8, 1879 in Dornbirn and was subsequently the father of six sons and four daughters, who were born between 1881 and 1891. After the early death of his wife, Thurnher initiated the private girls' school "Amalienhof", which was named after his late wife. Some of his 10 children also died at an early age, while one of his sons fell as an officer in the First World War. His son Konrad was in turn field curate in South Tyrol and then barrack priest in Vienna, while Thurnher's children Maria, Remigius and Stanislaus continued the wine trade that still existed in the 21st century. Johannes Thurnher married Josefine Schönach (1849–1936) in Dornbirn on August 13, 1895, although his second marriage remained childless.

Awards

  • Honorary citizen of the municipality of Buch (1870)

literature

  • Index of the stenographic minutes of the House of Representatives of the 8th , 9th and 10th session .
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Thurnher, Johannes . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 45th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 125 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Sigmund Hahn (Ed.): Reichsraths-Almanach for the session 1873–1874. Publishing house L. Rosner. Vienna 1873.
  • Sigmund Hahn (Ed.): Reichsraths-Almanach for the session 1879–1880. Vienna 1879.
  • Sigmund Hahn (Ed.): Reichsraths-Almanach for the session 1885–1886. Vienna 1885.
  • Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in parliament and government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848-2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Communications from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 ( full text as PDF on the website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Son of Johann Thurnher and Maria Anna Hefel, see: Article entry on Mathäus Thurnher. In: Family book of the Dornbirn City Archives . Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.thurnher-wein.com/chronik/geschichte.htm Chronicle of Johannes Thurnher's Nfg. EU Weinkellerei & Vinothek
personal data
SURNAME Thurnher, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thurnher, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian businessman and politician, member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn - hazel bushes
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1909
Place of death Dornbirn - hazel bushes