Josef Rainer (politician, 1861)

Josef Rainer senior (born January 7, 1861 in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer , Austrian Empire ; † January 22, 1941 in Saalbach , Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( CS ). His son Josef Rainer junior (1887–1977) was mayor of the municipality of Saalbach from the 1940s to 1959, as well as a car entrepreneur and partner in the Saalbach ski lift company founded on September 17, 1945.

life and career

Josef Rainer senior was born on January 7, 1861 in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer and attended elementary school in the neighboring village of Saalfelden . In 1880 he worked, among other things, as a lumberjack in Saalbach before doing his military service from 1881 to 1884. Subsequently, he continued to work as a servant in Saalbach from 1884 to 1894, before he became municipal secretary of Saalbach in 1894 and held this position for a period of 32 years until 1926. During this time he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from 1909 to 1927 and held various positions during this period. He was a member of the pre-democratic state parliament from 1909 to 1918 as a member of the fourth electoral class (Pinzgauer rural communities) and from 1918 to 1919 of the provisional state assembly. From 1919 to 1922 he was a member of the constituent state parliament and from 1922 and 1927 to the state parliament. Between 1921 and 1927 he also appeared as the second Deputy President of the State Parliament and was thus the third President of the State Parliament of Salzburg. In 1912 he was given honorary citizenship by his home town of Saalbach. A little more than three decades later, his son Josef Rainer junior, born in 1887, became mayor of the town and held this office until 1959. Josef Rainer senior died on January 22nd, 1941 around two weeks after his 80th birthday in Saalbach.

Honors

• Honorary citizen of Saalbach: 1912

Web links

• Voithofer, Richard : Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical manual. 1918 to the present. Vienna (Verlag Böhlau) 2007. Series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library , Volume 32. ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 . P. 176 f, based on
• Klieber, Rupert : Political Catholicism in the Province. Salzburg's Christian Socials in the Party Landscape of Old Austria , Vienna – Salzburg 1994 (= publications of the Institute for Contemporary Church History, Volume 28), ISBN 3850901483