Josef Pichler (politician, 1930)

Josef Pichler (born December 26, 1930 in Maishofen ; † March 7, 2017 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and union secretary and managing director of a housing cooperative. From 1967 to 1989 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and lived in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer.

education and profession

Pichler was born in Maishofen and first attended five classes of elementary school in the neighboring community of Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer. He then moved to Salzburg to attend two classes at a secondary school and, after the end of the Second World War, learned the profession of cooper from 1945 to 1948. He then completed an apprenticeship as a brewer and maltster between 1949 and 1952 and was then employed at the Blattl brewery in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer until 1960 .

Between 1958 and 1959 Pichler attended the social academy of the Vienna Chamber of Labor in Mödling, whereupon he worked in 1960 as district secretary of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions in Pinzgau. He then worked from 1973 to 1993 as managing director of the “Bergland” housing association in Zell am See .

Politics and functions

Pichler was active as a works council in the Blattl brewery from 1952 to 1960 and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1956. In 1959 he was appointed to the council of Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer and remained a member of this committee until 1994. He was also a member of the Saalfelden municipal council from 1959 to 1984. He was also a member of the Salzburg Chamber of Labor from 1959 to 1964, worked within the party as deputy district party chairman of the SPÖ in Pinzgau until 1992, and was deputy regional party chairman of the SPÖ Salzburg from 1978 to 1984. In addition, between 1974 and 1989 he was a member of the state party executive of the SPÖ Salzburg and from 1969 to 1989 he held the function of deputy club chairman of the SPÖ parliamentary group, where he was a member of the state parliament from October 11, 1967 to May 2, 1989.

Awards

• Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria (1978)
• Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Salzburg (1989)

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Test Archive 2017 - Memory of our deceased members. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .