Josef Lengauer (trade unionist)

Josef Lengauer (born January 21, 1898 in Leoben ; † December 9, 1966 in Bad Gleichenberg ) was an Austrian trade unionist and politician ( home bloc ), from 1930 to 1934 a member of the National Council .

Lengauer learned to be an electrician and was employed by the Alpine Montangesellschaft in Donawitz . He organized one of the first work groups of the Styrian Homeland Security at Alpine and was a co-founder and first chairman of the independent trade union, which is close to home security .

In 1930 he became Deputy Country Director of the Styrian Homeland Security and entered the National Council on the list of the Heimatblock . In contrast to the majority of the Styrian Home Guard leadership , however, he behaved loyally to the federal leadership under Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg , so he voted in around 1932 to accept the Lausanne loan from the League of Nations . He also exercised political functions in the corporate state , such as deputy chairman of the Federal Economic Council , vice-president of the Vienna Chamber of Labor and the then trade union federation . In 1936 he was appointed to the leadership council of the Fatherland Front .

Lengauer stood up for an understanding with the illegal National Socialists and worked closely with Odo Neustädter-Stürmer in this regard . In 1936 he joined the NSDAP himself . In the course of the “Anschluss” he was temporarily acting head of the union and the Chamber of Labor, which were later liquidated.

Web links

• Josef Lengauer (trade unionist) on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Wiltschegg: The Heimwehr - an irresistible popular movement? Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-7028-0221-5 , pp. 68, 353.
2. ^ Weekly review: Austria. In:  Alpenländische Rundschau , July 25, 1936, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: History of the Chamber for Workers and Employees (PDF; 65 kB), p. 11. )