Josef Fischer (politician, 1903)

Josef Fischer (born December 2, 1903 in Vienna ; † July 12, 1979 there ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Josef Fischer enjoyed a middle-class education from the school brothers and passed the Matura at the commercial academy . After that, he worked in the banking sector for a few years from 1919, before he found employment in the management floor of Semperit AG based in Lower Austria in 1930 . In the same year he also joined the Social Democratic Labor Party (SDAP) through the union .

After the war , Fischer was largely responsible for building up the SPÖ in the Hietzing district of Vienna ; he sat on the district party executive. In 1954 he was appointed First Deputy District Chairman under the ÖVP politician Ernst Florian . When the SPÖ succeeded in gaining a majority in the district following the elections to the state and local councils in 1959 , Fischer was elected district chairman in the same year. But in the municipal council elections that followed in 1964 , he was replaced by Josef Gerstbach , who, as the ÖVP's top candidate , had won the majority in the district. In the same year Josef Fischer moved instead as a member of the SPÖ in the Vienna State Parliament and City Council, to which he belonged for a legislative period until 1969.

Web links

• Josef Fischer. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)