Julius Löcker

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Julius Löcker (born August 15, 1860 in St. Agatha ; † May 23, 1945 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( German People's Party ) and lawyer. He was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives .

Life

Löcker was born as the son of the community doctor and surgeon from Grieskirchen Josef Löcker and his wife Maria Mayer from Waizenkirchen . He grew up with three siblings and attended grammar schools in Linz and Graz . After the completion of the high school Löcker continued his education at the Polytechnic in Karlsruhe continued and studied from 1893 law at the University of Vienna , where he in 1894 to Dr. iur. received his doctorate . During his studies in 1882 he became a member of the Germania Vienna fraternity . From 1891 he worked as a lawyer trainee, passed the bar exam in Vienna in 1897 and from 1898 worked as court and court counsel in Linz. He was also a functionary of the Linz Bar Association and was involved in the management board of the Sparkasse Linz . He was also politically active and became a member of the board of the German People's Association. In the Reichsrat election in 1901 , Löcker ran in the constituency of the cities of Linz, Urfahr, Ottensheim and Gallneukirchen and was able to win a seat for the House of Representatives there. He was a member of the House of Representatives until 1907 and advocated the introduction of general, equal suffrage. In the Reichsrat election in 1907 , which was carried out for the first time according to this right to vote, Löcker ran for election in Upper Austria 2 and lost in the runoff election against the Social Democrat Josef Gruber . At the request of Prime Minister Max Wladimir von Beck, he was then promoted to court advisor at the Administrative Court and in 1920 to the position of President of the Senate - in 1929 he was retired.

Löcker was married to Hedwig Bichler from 1893. He was the father of two sons.

literature

  • Franz Adlgasser: The members of the Austrian central parliaments 1848–1918. Constituent Reichstag 1848–1849. Reichsrat 1861–1918. A biographical lexicon. Sub-Volume 1: A-L. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , Vienna 2014, p. 726 f.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 301-302.
  • Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1861 to 1918. Upper Austrian state publisher, Linz 1983, ISBN 3-85214-381-0 , p. 153 f.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/oberoesterreich/st-agatha/106%252F1860/?pg=3 , accessed on June 23, 2020.
  2. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 246.
personal data
SURNAME Löcker, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician; Member of the House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Agatha
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1945
Place of death Vienna