Josef Wimmer (politician)

Josef Wimmer (born May 24, 1882 in Anif , † October 20, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian trade union secretary and politician ( SPÖ ). Between the two world wars he was a member of the Burgenland Landtag and President of the Landtag .

Life

Wimmer was born as the son of the housekeeper Rosina Wimmer and the beer coachman Jakob Layr, who was married to her. Wimmer attended elementary school and community school and subsequently worked as a bricklayer, construction manager and foreman. Between 1919 and 1921, Wimmer was State Secretary of the Austrian Agricultural and Forestry Workers Association for Lower Austria and then worked from 1921 to 1929 as State Secretary for the Burgenland branch of the association or was Federal Secretary of this association. Wimmer lived in Parndorf, Neufeld an der Leitha, Bad Sauerbrunn and Großhöftein and was elected to the administrative office for Burgenland on February 23, 1922 . From 1922 he was a member of the state committee of the Social Democratic Workers' Party and from 1928 to 1932 chairman of the state executive of the Burgenland state trade union commission. Between 1929 and 1938 he held the position of director of the agricultural health insurance fund and moved to Vienna in 1945.

From July 15, 1922 to December 5, 1930, Wimmer was a member of the Burgenland State Parliament and between July 15, 1922 and November 13, 1923, he was President of the State Parliament.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 1: (1921-1938). Rötzer, Eisenstadt 1972.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/wien/08-alservorstadtkrankenhaus/01-124/?pg=403