Josef Anton Fässler (politician, 1893)

Josef Anton Fässler (born April 9, 1893 in Dornbirn ; † March 20, 1970 there ) was an Austrian politician, locksmith and post office clerk. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Fässler attended elementary school II in Dornbirn between 1899 and 1906 and then switched to the commercial advanced training school in Dornbirn between 1908 and 1911. After finishing school he learned the trade of hand embroiderer and then completed an apprenticeship as a metal lathe operator from 1907 to 1914. He subsequently worked as an assistant at Rüsch u. Co. in Dornbirn and served in the First World War, where he had to spend the years between 1915 and 1918 in Russian captivity. After his return from the war, Fässler worked between 1919 and 1934 and in 1938 as an iron turner and as a motor vehicle driver and conductor for the Dornbirn-Lustenau Electric Railway . Most recently, he worked from 1938 to 1956 as head of the Dornbirn post bus service, taking the traffic service examination in Innsbruck between 1948 and 1949.

Politics and functions

Fässler was a member of the Christian Social Party and in 1910 also became a member of the Christian Association of Helpers. He was also one of the founders of the Christian metal workers' union and acted as its chairman. Furthermore, he was involved as a member of the Catholic workers' association, was a co-founder and first chairman of the workers' and employees' union and a member of the federal management of the union of workers and employees. Furthermore, he was active in the union as chairman of the union of Christian trams and the post and telegraph employees, was chairman of the Vorarlberg regional health insurance fund and chairman of the non-profit settlement cooperative rGmbH Dornbirn. He also worked as a member and committee member of the Dornbirner Verkehrsverein, was deputy chairman of the Dornbirner Turnerbund and member of the administrative committee of the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees.

In terms of local politics, he was a member of the city council of Dornbirn from 1929 to 1934, after which he was a city councilor in Dornbirn from 1934 to 1938 and after the Second World War from 1945 to 1947. In 1934, he was appointed as a representative of the trade by the Vorarlberg governor to the state parliament and was a member of the state parliament from November 14, 1934 until the annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938.

Private

Josef Anton Fässler was born the son of the Dornbirn carter Josef Andre Fässler (1860–1903) and his wife Anna Kalb (1858–1918), who was born in Wolfurt . He married Amalie King (1894–1977) in Dornbirn in 1919 and had six daughters between 1920 and 1938.

Awards

• Gold badge of honor of the ÖAAB
• War Memorial Medal "Golden Swords"

Web links

• Biography of Josef Anton Fässler (PDF; 90 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.