Josef Wagast

Josef Wagast (* March 12, 1881 in Eisenstadt , † May 14, 1946 ibid) was a Hungarian - Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, teacher, police officer, politician ( SDAP ) and municipal director . Wagast was married and from 1922 to 1923 a member of the Burgenland Landtag and its third president .

Life

youth

Josef Wagast was born as the son of the house owner and municipal chief miner and hospital administrator Josef Wagast from Eisenstadt. He attended elementary school in Eisenstadt and completed his further education at the Benedictine high school in Sopron and Győr , where he graduated in 1899 .

job

Wagast studied Catholic theology in Győr and was ordained a priest on July 14, 1903 . He was subsequently as a religion teacher in Raab and Kaplan worked in Eisenstadt, he was also chaplain and until June 27, 1914 Professor of German at the Honvéd - junior high school in Sopron. He was released from service on June 27, 1914 and given temporary retirement. From July 2, 1914, Wagast worked as a police clerk in Budapest , and also studied at the local university, where he graduated in 1917 with the academic degree Dr. rer. pole. completed. He then worked from October 19, 1917 as a police officer and on November 12, 1918 was appointed police captain of the Budapest State Police. During the council time Wagast acted as city governor and was head of the political detective department, after Horthy came to power he was sentenced to two years in prison. Wagast escaped from prison after 17 months in prison and found work as an accountant for a furniture factory in Wöllersdorf .

After the escape

Wagast, who had married Luise Laplace in 1918, first lived with his sister in Wiener Neustadt after fleeing to Austria . He was a Roman Catholic until 1925 and joined the Old Catholic Church in 1932 . Wagast belonged to state party control between 1922 and 1924 and represented the Social Democratic Labor Party between July 15, 1922 and November 13, 1923 in the Burgenland state parliament, during which time he was also the third president of the state parliament. In addition, he worked as a city councilor in Eisenstadt and was also from December 1, 1923 to March 31, 1938 Magistrate Director of the free city of Eisenstadt. He joined the Fatherland Front in 1933 and was head of the intelligence service. After the end of the Second World War he was again director of the magistrate until May 1, 1945.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part I (1923-1938). Eisenstadt 1972