Josef Püchler

Josef Püchler (born March 13, 1883 in Gloggnitz , † March 15, 1971 in Wiener Neustadt ) was an Austrian politician ( SDAP ) and train driver. Püchler was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 1927 to 1934 .

Püchler completed an apprenticeship as a construction and machine fitter and did his military service between 1904 and 1907 and from 1914 to 1915. In 1907 he joined the Southern Railway Company and in 1908 became a locomotive driver. After the First World War, he organized the municipal utilities in Wiener Neustadt, and in 1919 he was elected vice mayor of the city. Püchler became a member of the central leadership of the Republican Protection Association and represented the Social Democratic Labor Party between May 20, 1927 and February 16, 1934 in the Lower Austrian state parliament. His mandate was revoked in the wake of the Austrian Civil War and the subsequent ban on the Social Democratic Party. Two days before the outbreak of the February fighting, Püchler had provoked an argument in order to be arrested because he had been convinced that the uprising would fail. Party colleagues never forgave him for this behavior.

literature

• Lower Austria Landtag Directorate (ed.): Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Landtag and the Lower Austrian provincial government 1921–2000 (= Lower Austria publications. Volume 128). Lower Austria Landtag Directorate , St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2 .

Web links

• Josef Püchler on the website of the Lower Austrian Parliament