Josef Auseger

Josef Ausweger (born May 21, 1900 in Althofen , † April 4, 1978 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and businessman . Between 1945 and 1949 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and its second deputy state parliament president.

education and profession

From 1905 on, Ausweger attended the elementary school in Gmunden and then switched to the local community school, which he graduated in 1913. After completing compulsory schooling, he began an apprenticeship at Stern & Hafferl in Gmunden, which he completed between 1913 and 1916. After completing his apprenticeship, he worked as a fitter at the power station in Innsbruck between 1916 and 1918 and was finally drafted into military service in the First World War in 1918 . His return from the war was followed by further years of professional activity at the Stern & Hafferl electricity company in Gmunden between 1919 and 1921, after which he started his own business in Salzburg in 1921.

Politics and functions

From 1933 to 1938, Ausweger was District Leader of the Fatherland Front , which is why he was arrested after the National Socialists came to power in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . Between 1944 and 1945 he had to serve in World War II . After the end of the war, he was elected chairman of the Austrian Economic Association in Salzburg in 1945, and held this position until 1958. He also served as President of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce between 1946 and 1960, and from 1945 was the state guild master of the electrical trade. Furthermore, he was deputy chairman of the Salzburg regional health insurance fund from 1957 to 1963, curator of the Salzburg Economic Development Institute between 1960 and 1970 and, from 1945, president of the non-partisan concentration camp association. As a political mandate, he was a member of the provisional council of the city of Salzburg from 1945 to 1946; he also represented the Austrian People's Party from December 12, 1945 to November 30, 1949 in the Salzburg state parliament. During his membership in the Salzburg state parliament, he was also second deputy state parliament president.

Awards

• Commercial Council (1948)
• Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1956)
• Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg (1970)

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 , p. 12.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)