Karl Drexel

Karl Drexel (born July 21, 1872 in Dornbirn ; † March 14, 1954 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ) and head of the Federal Statistical Office . Drexel was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1902 to 1914 and 1921 to 1923, a member of the Reichsrat from 1907 to 1911 , a member of the Austrian Federal Council from 1920 to 1923 and finally a member of the National Council from 1923 to 1931 .

education and profession

Karl Drexel was born on July 21, 1872 in the Vorarlberg town of Dornbirn as the son of Franz Josef Drexel and Maria Katharina Ulmer and grew up there. He attended elementary school in Dornbirn before going to the Cassianeum high school in Brixen , where Drexel graduated from high school in 1891 . On June 29, 1895, Karl Drexel was ordained a Catholic priest and then worked as an assistant priest in Hohenems until 1897.

Following this, he began the study of theology and philosophy in Rome , which he in 1899 with the promotion to Doctor of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy (et DDr. Theol.. Phil.) Graduated. From 1898 to 1899 he was chaplain to the priestly College Collegio Teutonico Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome. In the years 1899 to 1907 Drexel worked in his hometown Dornbirn as a parish provisional and secondary school professor at the grammar school in Dornbirn .

From 1912 Drexel had a job in the Austro-Hungarian Central Statistical Commission , a forerunner of the later Federal Statistical Office. During the First World War , from 1914 Karl Drexel was Feldkurat in the Imperial and Royal 2nd Tyrolean Jäger Regiment "Kaiserjäger" . Drexel spent the period from 1914 to 1920 in captivity in Siberia . In 1925 Drexel was by Pope Pius XI. awarded the honorary title of the Papal House Prelate . From 1931 to 1935 Karl Drexel finally worked as head of the statistical service in Austria, now known as the Federal Statistical Office, for which he was appointed real councilor in 1931 .

Political career

Karl Drexel first became politically active for the Christian Social Party in 1902 , when he was first elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament for it. Drexel was a member of the general electoral class for the communities between Feldkirch and Dornbirn in the 9th legislative period . Drexel was also a member of parliament in the 10th legislative period until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. From 1904 he was also a member of the Dornbirn city ​​council . Drexel remained a member of the Dornbirn city council up to and including 1913.

In the first Reichsrat election in 1907 , Karl Drexel was elected to the House of Representatives of the Austrian Parliament in the Vorarlberg 1 constituency , which covered the cities of Bregenz, Dornbirn, Feldkirch and Bludenz , where he was a member of the Austrian Parliament until 1911. From 1909 to 1914 Karl Drexel was also a member of the predecessor of the later Vorarlberg state government, known as the Vorarlberg state committee .

After returning from Russian captivity in 1920, Karl Drexel was elected to the Vorarlberg state parliament due to a special provision. The Landtag had decided that “those voters who were hindered from exercising their right to vote due to imprisonment or internment in enemy territory (...) could send their own representative to the Landtag after their return . From January 27, 1921, this member was again Karl Drexel, who was active in the state parliament until the end of the 11th legislative period in 1923.

In the interwar period , Karl Drexel was also sent on December 1, 1920 by the Vorarlberg state parliament to represent Vorarlberg in the newly founded Austrian Federal Council . He remained in the Federal Council until November 6, 1923 and was also Deputy Chairman of the Federal Council during his membership. Karl Drexel then moved up to the Austrian National Council , as he was able to achieve a mandate for the Christian Social Party in the National Council election in Austria in 1923 . He was a member of the National Council until October 16, 1931. In 1935 he was given honorary citizenship by his hometown Dornbirn.

Fonts

• Social Policy , Gsur Vienna 1933
• Austrian religious statistics , in: The Catholic Almanach. Born 2. 1934
• Field curate in Siberia: 1914 - 1920 , Rauch Innsbruck 1949 (3rd edition)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Drexel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl Drexel on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Short biography of Karl Drexel (as a member of the Reichsrat) on the website of the Austrian Parliament .
• Biography of Karl Drexel in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.
• Karl Drexel in the Dornbirn Lexicon of the Dornbirn City Archives .