Josef Mayer (politician, 1925)

Josef Mayer (born May 25, 1925 in Siegendorf ) is a former Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and federal civil servant. Mayer was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1975 to 1985 .

Life

Josef Mayer was born as the son of the laborer and farmer Josef Mayer from Siegendorf. He grew up in a Burgenland-Croatian family and went to secondary school in Eisenstadt after primary school in Siegendorf. Between 1942 and 1944 Mayer was deployed in the Reich Labor Service , after which he served in the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945 , being an American prisoner of war between May and July 1945.

After the end of the war, Mayer worked in his parents' farm between 1945 and 1948 and as a laborer in the Siegendorf sugar factory, after which he joined the Burgenland Security Directorate on May 1, 1948 as an administrative officer. In 1954 he passed the official Matura and in 1959 the administrative service examination and became senior official in the Eisenstadt police department and in 1986 a member of the government.

politics

He became politically active as a member of the SPÖ from 1947 and was elected local party chairman of the SPÖ in Siegendorf in 1960. From 1962 to 1983 he held the office of mayor of Siegendorf and also represented the SPÖ from January 27, 1975 to October 1, 1985 in the Burgenland state parliament. In addition, from 1964 onwards, he was a member of the state party executive and a member of the presidium of the mayors 'and vice mayors' conference of the Croatian and mixed-language communities.

literature

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