Karl Kunst (politician, 1904)

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Karl Kunst (born July 28, 1904 in Innsbruck ; † November 17, 1989 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( SPÖ ). He was from 1953 to 1970 Member of the Tyrolean Parliament and from 1960 to 1970 the second governor -Stellvertreter of Tyrol.

Life

Kunst was born as the son of a railway inspector on July 28, 1904 in Innsbruck and after primary school he attended the Innsbruck Realgymnasium Reithmannstraße, which he dropped out of high school due to the death of his father and subsequent financial problems. In 1926 he completed an external Matura in Vienna and studied law and political science as a working student at universities in Innsbruck and Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1931. He then worked as a trainee in a law firm in Innsbruck's Erlerstraße before opening his own law firm in Museumstraße .

In 1941, Karl Kunst was drafted into the air force medical unit of the German Wehrmacht . In the summer of 1945 he returned from American captivity and resumed his practice as a lawyer. This he exercised, partly interrupted by his political activity, until shortly after he turned 80.

Kunst is the father of the former constitutional judge Lisbeth Lass and brother of the former member of the National Council Josef Kunst .

politics

At a young age, art became a member of the socialist youth workers , founded a local group of socialist middle school students and later held various functions in the Social Democratic Party . After the party was banned, he was arrested four times on political grounds.

After the upheaval in 1945, Karl Kunst belonged to the first provisional provincial government in Tyrol and dedicated himself to rebuilding political life in Tyrol. From August to December 1945 he was legal advisor to the Tyrolean provincial government .

In November 1947 he traveled to Rome on behalf of the Federal Government with the later State Secretary Franz Gschnitzer as an unofficial representative when negotiations were taking place with the Italian government for the implementation of the Paris Agreement on South Tyrol.

From 1948 to 1960, art was a member of the Innsbruck city and municipal council ; from 1953 to 1956 as the executive city councilor for welfare and health care and from 1956 to 1959 as chairman of the supervisory board of the municipal transport company .

In the state elections in 1953, Kunst won a mandate in the Innsbruck-Stadt constituency and represented the SPÖ in four legislative periods from November 24, 1953 to March 31, 1970 in the Tyrolean state parliament .

On November 12, 1957, he was elected 2nd Vice President of the State Parliament with 30 of 36 votes. He held this office until November 7, 1961.

Following the resignation of Franz Hüttenberger in September 1959 Art became his successor as chairman of the club and after cabin Berger's resignation as governor elected -Stellvertreters on 29 March 1960 at the same date to the second state Deputy Governor. As a result, Karl Kunst was the second deputy governor of the Tyrolean provincial governments Tschiggfrey I , Tschiggfrey II , Wallnöfer I and Wallnöfer II until October 20, 1970 . He was political advisor to the state government for social and health services. Among other things, the Tyrolean Parliament passed the Tyrolean Disability and Care Aid Act based on its draft in 1965 .

In 1970 he no longer stood for election to take up his pension .

From 1945 to 1961 Karl Kunst acted as deputy state chairman of the SPÖ Tirol , before he was state chairman from 1961 to 1970 and during this time also belonged to the extended presidium of the federal party executive. At the state party conference in 1969, he was elected honorary chairman of the Tyrolean SPÖ for life with a seat and vote on the state party executive for his services.

Awards

literature

  • Josef Rauchberger (Ed.): Keyword Federal States - Federal Council. Elections and representative bodies of the federal states from 1945 to 2000 . Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901111-05-0 .
  • Stenographic reports of the Tyrolean Parliament, period IV to VII

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michaela Ralser, Anneliese Bechter, Flavia Guerrini: Political responsibility and competence for the agendas of youth welfare. In: History of the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg educational homes and welfare education regime of the 2nd Republic - a preliminary study. Institute for Educational Science - Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, June 2012, accessed on April 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Art, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1989
Place of death innsbruck