Josef Prentl (politician, 1890)

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Josef Prentl (born August 23, 1890 in Unterlaa , Lower Austria; † May 16, 1949 there , at that time already in Vienna ) was an Austrian peasant functionary and politician of the Christian Social Party of Austria .

Prentl attended elementary and middle school and became a farmer like his father. From 1920 to 1938 he was mayor of his hometown Unterlaa, which at that time bordered Vienna, but only became part of Vienna's urban area in 1938 during the Nazi dictatorship (see Greater Vienna ).

He was deputy chairman in the district chamber of farmers from 1924 to 1933, then headed it until the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938. He was a member of the state (non-democratic) state parliament of Lower Austria from 1934 to 1938, from June 3, 1932 to April 27 In 1934 he was a member of the Federal Council and then to 2 May 1934 Member of the National Council .

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