Josef Schoder

Josef Pius Schoder (born May 1, 1900 in Vandans , † September 18, 1986 in Feldkirch ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and civil servant in the state. Schoder was a member of the Vorarlberg regional government from 1957 to 1969 as a member of the state council and from 1959 to 1969 as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament, the club chairman of the SPÖ state parliamentary group.

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Career before 1945

Josef Schoder was born on May 1, 1900 as the son of the farmer Franz Josef Schoder and his wife Maria Rosina in the Montafon municipality of Vandans. After attending elementary and advanced training school in Vandans, Schoder first became a stove fitter and joined the railroad in 1917. In 1918 he was called up for military service, but retired from the military in the same year due to the rapid end of the war. From 1919 to 1922, Josef Schoder hired himself out as a construction worker in Switzerland, before he was employed as a construction worker in 1923 to build the Spullersee power station in his homeland in Vorarlberg. In 1923 he joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party, the predecessor party of today's SPÖ, and was elected by the construction workers as a member of their works council when the Spullersee power station was built . After the power plant was completed in 1925, Schoder became the regional chairman of the construction and woodworkers' union. In 1928 he was again appointed to the works council of construction workers when a power station was built - the Vermuntwerk . In 1930 he finally attended the social policy course at the workers' college in Vienna. From 1931 Josef Schoder worked at the Vorarlberg Chamber for workers and employees before he was dismissed for political reasons in 1938. Also in 1938, after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and the associated takeover of power by the National Socialists, Schoder was punished politically. Due to the political situation, he was unemployed for a longer period of time in 1938 and 1939 before he found a job as a welfare clerk at the Feldkirch district administration in 1939 .

Political career from the 1950s

After the liberation of Austria by the Allies, Josef Schoder was promoted to head of the department for social and welfare matters in the BH Feldkirch in 1945. In the 1950s, he completed the civil service high school diploma at the Bundesrealgymnasium Bludenz . From 1952 he took on the executive position of the SPÖ's city ​​party chairman in Feldkirch, and in the 1955 municipal elections he was elected both as a member of the city ​​council and as city councilor for social affairs. He remained a member of the city council until 1960 and the city council until 1957. In 1957 Schoder's political career reached a new high point. First he was elected on April 18 as the successor to his party colleague Jakob Bertsch , who died on April 13, as regional councilor for social administration, welfare and health care and state institutions in the Vorarlberg state government . On May 25, he took over the chairmanship of the SPÖ Vorarlberg (until August 31, 1961) , also in succession to the late Jakob Bertsch . Two years later, on October 29, 1959, after the state election in Vorarlberg in 1959 , in which the SPÖ was able to gain more than three percent , Bertsch was sworn in as a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament and took over the chairmanship of the SPÖ state parliament club. Josef Schoder resigned from both the state parliament and the state government on October 28, 1969 after the state elections .

In 1968 he had already received the highest state award, the gold medal of honor, from the state of Vorarlberg for his services. In 1970 he became honorary chairman of the Vorarlberg Pensioners' Association , from which he was also awarded the Golden Association Award.

Web links

• Biography of Josef Schoder (PDF; 104 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.