Josef Gilschwert

Josef Gilschwert (born December 4, 1924 in Lockenhaus ; † May 31, 2012 ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and gendarmerie officer. Gilschwert was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1973 to 1987 .

Life

Gilschwert was born as the son of the farmer Josef Gilschwert from Lockenhaus and attended eight classes at the Lockenhaus elementary school. He then served in the Wehrmacht between 1942 and 1945 and was then a British prisoner of war for a year. On April 1, 1949, he joined the Federal Gendarmerie, where he attended a specialist course for gendarmerie officers on duty between 1956 and 1957. On January 1, 1958, he was promoted to gendarmerie district inspector and deputy to the post commander in Oberwart , and in 1966 he passed the official high school diploma . Gilschwert was gendarmerie district inspector from January 1, 1974 and from 1973 to 1984 department inspector and head of the traffic department of the Oberwart branch.

Gilschwert was a founding member of the "International Police Organization" in 1961 and was politically active from 1951 onwards. From 1972 he held the office of the local council or city council and from 1977 to 1980 he took over the position of vice mayor in Oberwart. In 1973 he was elected ÖVP city party chairman and in 1974 district chairman of the ÖAAB . Gilschwert represented the ÖVP from December 17, 1973 to October 30, 1987 in the Burgenland state parliament.

Awards

• 1984: Great Silver Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
• Great decoration of the province of Burgenland

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .
• Obituary notice (pdf; 715 kB)

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)