Josef Renner (politician)

Josef Renner (born June 17, 1892 in Brno , Moravia , † February 8, 1958 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and state official. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament .

education and profession

Renner attended elementary and civil school and then completed two years at the teacher training institute in Brno. He then learned the trade of a businessman and between 1911 and 1912 was employed as a commercial clerk in Vienna . In 1912 he switched to the service of the railway workers' union in Vienna and was then employed as a clerk at the railway operations office in Vienna from 1914 to 1918, although his professional activity was interrupted by his military service in the First World War between 1915 and 1916. After the end of the First World War, Renner worked between 1918 and 1921 as a secretary at the Central Commission of German Employees' Associations in Vienna, after which he switched from 1921 to 1934 as a secretaryGerman National Sales Aid Association (DHV). He was also regional manager and district chairman of the DHV in Linz and from 1928 in Salzburg. Most recently he also worked in this role in Graz . Then Renner was from 1934 to 1938 secretary of the trade union federation of Austrian workers and employees and from 1934 to 1935 he was active as a secretary at the Styrian Chamber of Labor in Graz. Furthermore, he worked from 1935 to 1938 as managing director for Lower Austria and Burgenland, after which he became a clerk at the employment office in Karlsbad (Bohemia) between 1938 and 1945 . After the end of the Second World War, Renner worked as a department head at the Salzburg State Labor Office from 1946, and between 1947 and 1948 he was secretary of the ÖVP Salzburg. Most recently he worked from 1948 to 1957 as an employee of the Salzburg state government.

Politics and functions

Renner represented the NSDAP Schulz movement between 1931 and 1934 as a member of the Salzburg City Council. After the end of the Second World War he joined the Austrian People's Party, was a member of the provisional council of the city of Salzburg from 1946 to 1947 and represented the People's Party in the Salzburg state parliament from December 11, 1954 to February 8, 1958. In addition, he was regional chairman of the "Public Service" section in the Austrian Workers' Association (ÖAAB) and between 1928 and 1933 he was chairman of the salaried health insurance fund in Salzburg.

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