Karl Aubert Salzmann

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Karl Aubert Salzmann (born July 2, 1876 in Dornbirn , † November 1, 1934 in Wels ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician .

Life

Karl Aubert Salzmann was born on July 2, 1876, the son of an industrialist in Dornbirn. Here he also attended elementary school and subsequently attended the Stella Matutina Jesuit high school in Feldkirch from the first to the seventh grade and then the kk state high school in Trento . There he graduated with honors in 1896 and then completed his one- year volunteer year with the 3rd regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger in Trento, which had just been set up before that . After studying law at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , he switched to the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, where Otto Ender was one of his fellow students . He then went on to study at the University of Graz , where he joined the KÖHV Carolina Graz student association on May 4, 1900 and was given the couleur name Adam . His fox time was shortened, however, because during his studies in Prague and in Freiburg he used the connections between KDStV Ferdinandea Prague and KDStV Teutonia and Freiburg in Üechtland . In the summer semester of 1901, he changed school again and came to the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna , where in 1902 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . In Vienna he was a member of KaV Norica Wien . After the court year , Salzmann started as a trainee lawyer in the office of Josef Greitner (1866–1957), the father of the later politician and mayor of Innsbruck , Franz Greitner . After Josef Greitner returned to Innsbruck with his family in 1909, Salzmann took over Greitner's office as an independent lawyer on October 1, 1909.

Salzmann was also present at the 25th Carolina Foundation Festival in Graz when there were riots by hitting students against Carolinen and CVer . Here, on Whit Monday, May 12, 1913, Salzmann was hit and injured by an ink glass while driving to mass in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche . At the side of Richard Wollek , who was already a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament and a member of the Reich Council, Salzmann went to the governor of Styria, Edmund Graf von Attems , and made the critical situation clear to him, whereupon he deployed troops from the Austro-Hungarian army for security . In 1915, Salzmann himself was called up, but did not have to go to the front because of a heart condition. As a camp adjunct he then spent his time in the Marchtrenk POW camp in Upper Austria and was assigned to the kuk infantry regiment "Ernst Ludwig Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine" No. 14 , his last rank being that of a first lieutenant in the reserve.

Working in politics

Salzmann's political career began in 1909 when he was elected chairman of the Catholic Volksverein in Wels. In the same year he ran for the Upper Austrian Landtag , to which he was subsequently elected. To this he belonged in the XI. Election period (from September 21, 1909 to the initial phase of the First World War 1914/15) and later also in the XII. Electoral term (from June 23, 1919 to May 18, 1925). After the last-mentioned state elections, Salzmann won the election as chairman of the municipal and constitutional committee and was also elected deputy state councilor. After he had already been on the Welter community and city council from 1919, he was appointed mayor of the city of Wels in 1924 , although his party, the Christian Socials , were only the third strongest party at the time. He held this office until February 1934, when the expansion of Wels into a modern city began during his tenure. He promoted housing and school construction and, through basic purchases, was responsible for expanding the area of ​​the economically important Welser Volksfest, today's Welser Messe . Salzmann himself was also proud that no shot had been fired in Wels in February or July 1934.

In 1934, Salzmann turned down an opportunity to become a government commissioner for Wels. In parallel to his offices in state and local politics, Salzmann was also represented in the Federal Council from December 1, 1920 to May 2, 1934 . From December 1, 1926 to May 31, 1927, and from June 1, 1931 to November 30, 1931, he was also its chairman. Because of this position, he chaired the 4th Federal Assembly on October 9, 1931 on the occasion of the election of Wilhelm Miklas as Austrian Federal President . Between June 15, 1932 and April 30, 1934, Salzmann was permanent deputy chairman of the Federal Council, as well as chairman of the Club of Christian Social Members of the Federal Council. In 1934, Salzmann had to largely withdraw from politics and resigned from his deputy chairmanship of the Federal Council on April 30, 1934 at the meeting that passed the Constitution of the Corporate States.

Even before that, he distanced himself from the corporate state ; for example when he refused to take the Korneuburg oath in 1930 , because he had already taken an oath on the constitution and could not break it with the Korneuburg oath. As late as 1933/34, Salzmann, who, along with Josef Schlegel and Josef Aigner, belonged to the democratic wing of the Christian Socialists, advocated maintaining democracy. A few days after parliament had switched itself off, he called for the main committee of the National Council to meet at a CS club board meeting in order to restore the constitution.

Engagement in CV and private life

In addition to his already mentioned involvement in the Austrian Cartell Association (CV), in 1907 he was the founder of the Catholic holiday group (Ferialis) Staufia Dornbirn, which still exists today . Between 1919 and 1922 Salzmann was chairman of the old gentlemen's state association of the CV in Upper Austria, one of the founders of the KÖStV Babenberg Graz . In 1927 he became honorary philistine of the Catholic Pennalie Traungau (today KÖStV Traungau Wels ) in the Middle Schools Cartel Association (MKV). Karl Aubert Salzmann was married and had a daughter and four sons. Among them were Aubert Salzmann, member of the KÖHV Carolina Graz, longstanding cultural advisor and in the 1960s Vice Mayor of Wels, as well as Walter Josef Salzmann, member of AV Austria Innsbruck , and Leopold Salzmann, member of KaV Norica Vienna. On November 1, 1934, Salzmann died at the age of 58 in Wels and was buried at the Wels city cemetery.

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SURNAME Salzmann, Karl Aubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (CS), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1934
Place of death Wels , Austria