Josef Zahn

Josef Zahn (born April 6, 1894 , † 1965 ) was an Austrian lawyer and a member of the Austrian cooperative system.

He was association secretary and for a time association attorney and from 1949 association syndic of the Austrian cooperative association (ÖGV), authorized signatory and later board member of the Austrian central cooperative bank (since 1974 Österreichische Volksbanken-Aktiengesellschaft , ÖVAG).

Life and education

Zahn came from an old Austrian family of officers and lived in Prague , Sankt Pölten , Innsbruck and Vienna during his youth and training . In the First World War he became a reserve officer badly wounded, but continued his legal studies and received his doctorate in 1918 at the University of Innsbruck for Doctor of Law .

After completing the court year and the high school diploma course at the export academy, he first became a bank clerk.

Professional activity in the Austrian Cooperative Association

In 1924 he joined the General Association of Self-Help-Based Employment and Business Cooperatives in Austria as a secretary and was subsequently involved in the establishment and development of the Austrian Central Cooperative Bank, which was founded in 1922, where he worked for eight years, initially as an authorized signatory and then as a member of the board has been.

Under Otto Neudörfer , he was in charge of the negotiations for the unification of the then co-existing commercial cooperative associations according to Schulze-Delitzsch, which ultimately led to the creation of the joint Austrian cooperative association (ÖGV) in 1930. He led the association on an interim basis after Otto Neudörfer's death from 1932 until Karl Rehling was elected as association attorney in 1933 and, after his resignation in 1937, until the public administrator Paul Poindecker took over the association .

Already during the Second World War he was appointed association manager and in 1949, after the election of a new association director, he was appointed association counsel . After the resignation of the association director Rois, he was appointed association attorney for the period 1962 to 1963.

Publications

Zahn was editor of the association magazine Die Genossenschaft until it was closed in 1938. As an association syndic, he wrote numerous articles in specialist journals and magazines and created a number of major works:

• Bank and Stock Exchange
• Taxation of the cooperatives
• ABC fees
• New edition of the manual for cooperatives

Awards

• For his versatile literary work and his services to the cooperative system, he was awarded the title of Hofrat by the Federal President in 1957 .
• Silver Chamber Medal (1965)

literature

• Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy , Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Vienna 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Brazda, Robert Schediwy, Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Vienna 1997, p. 356f.