Karl Wimmer (politician)

Karl Wimmer (born August 4, 1908 in Lundenburg , Moravia ; † October 2, 1985 in Darmstadt , Germany ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and hotelier. From 1945 to 1952 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1949 to 1952 he was second deputy president of the state parliament.

education and profession

Between 1914 and 1922, Wimmer attended the elementary and community school in Salzburg and completed an apprenticeship as a waiter there from 1922 to 1925. As a result, between 1926 and 1928 he continued his education at the commercial school in Salzburg and then worked in various hotels in Vienna , London and Paris . Between 1932 and 1935 he worked as the receptionist of the Hotel Bristol in Salzburg, after which he took over the post of director, which he held until 1938. Due to his political activities, he was dismissed in 1938 and given a district eviction , whereupon he worked as a hotel manager in Karlovy Vary between 1938 and 1939 . After the National Socialists had also taken power in Bohemia, Wimmer was reprimanded there in 1939. He then worked from 1940 to 1945 as a spa hotel director in Bad Driburg and returned to Salzburg in 1945. He worked there from 1945 to 1951 as director of the Hotel Stein in Salzburg and was then director of the Hotel Weismayr in Bad Gastein from 1949 to 1951 . In 1951 he was again director of the spa hotel in Bad Driburg.

Politics and functions

In the interwar period, Wimmer was active as a committee member of the innkeeping guild and group leader of the Fatherland Front from 1934 to 1938 . After the Second World War he was active as deputy chairman of the tourism section of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce between 1945 and 1946, after which he was its chairman from 1946 to 1952. In addition, from 1946 to 1952, Wimmer was a member of the board of trustees of the Salzburg hotel management school as well as the head of the association for the Austrian accommodation industry. Wimmer was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from December 12, 1945 to March 20, 1952, and from December 1, 1949 to March 20, 1952, he held the office of second deputy state parliament president.

Awards

• Professional title Commercial Council (1951)
• Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Salzburg (1970)

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .