Karl Zillner

Karl Zillner (born January 19, 1926 in Laufen , Bavaria , † July 11, 1983 in Bürmoos ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and railway employee. From 1964 to 1983 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament , from 1974 to 1983 second president of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1964 to 1967 mayor of the Salzburg rural community Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and then until 1983 first mayor of the newly created community of Bürmoos.

Life

Karl Zillner was the fourth child of Franz and Karoline Zillner. The father came as a simple worker from the rural milieu in Ostermiething in neighboring Upper Austria. The mother was also the child of a farming family from Ainring in Bavaria . Since his father got a job as a station servant at the Salzburg local railway , the family moved to Oberndorf , where Karl Zillner grew up.

Zillner began his school education by attending six classes at the elementary school before he was able to attend the newly built secondary school in Oberndorf for two years. As a student, Zillner worked several times during the summer holidays as a cattle keeper for little consideration. He joined the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1940 and received professional training there. From 1943 to 1945 Zillner had to do military service in World War II. After he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service , he was later assigned to flak units and served in the air defense in the Innsbruck area until the end of the war in 1945. After the war, Zillner was taken over into the service of the Austrian Federal Railways and got a job at Salzburg Central Station .

In 1947 Zillner married and moved to Bürmoos with his wife. At that time the place was not an independent municipality, but part of it belonged to Lamprechtshausen and the municipality of Sankt Georgen, where Zillner also lived and built his own house under hardship. Bürmoos became his home and he was not only politically active there. Despite his social democratic ideology, Zillner was at the same time a devout Catholic, following his mother's example, regularly attending Sunday services and being a member of the Catholic parish committee. In 1960 he was elected chairman of the local soccer club, but despite his successes he gave up the post in 1963 due to overall work overload. In his work, Zillner campaigned vehemently for the interests of Bürmoos; It was all the more inexplicable why the successful politician, described as close to the people, ended his life on July 11, 1983 by suicide.

Political activity

Karl Zillner joined the Socialist Party after the end of the Second World War in 1945 and between 1956 and 1968 acted as local party chairman of the SPÖ of Sankt Georgen near Salzburg and Bürmoos. Between 1959 and 1964 he worked as vice mayor in the municipality of Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and in 1964 took over the office of mayor. After the municipality of Bürmoos was separated in 1967, Zillner took over the office of mayor in the newly created municipality and held this position until 1983. As early as June 19, 1964, he was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament and on May 22, 1974, he was elected second president of the state parliament. Zillner held this office until his death. He was also the club chairman of the socialist parliamentary group from 1969 to 1974.

Within the party, Zillner worked in 1962 and between 1964 and 1983 as deputy district chairman of the SPÖ Flachgau, he was also a member of the state party executive from 1970 to 1983 and from 1970 to 1972 and from 1978 to 1983 a member of the state party presidium of the SPÖ Salzburg. Between 1974 and 1983 he headed the working group of socialist community representatives as chairman . Zillner was a board member of the Salzburg community association.

In his work at the community level, Zillner tried to cooperate with the political opposing side. He was seen as a person close to the people who did not ignore the needs of the population. Zillner was particularly successful as a local politician in Bürmoos, where his parliamentary group had the overwhelming majority in the local council and he always represented the interests of the Bürmoos community, so that he is also dubbed the "father of the community".

Awards

• Large Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria (1980)

literature

• Friedrich Lepperdinger : Bürmoos. About becoming a modern industrial community. Published by the Bürmoos community for the 30th anniversary of the Bürmoos community. Letter & Note / Stefan Adamski, St. Georgen / Salzburg 1997.
• 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ It is also called January 11th. See Friedrich Lepperdinger: Bürmoos. About becoming a modern industrial community. Bürmoos 1997, p. 19.
2. ^ Friedrich Lepperdinger: Bürmoos. About becoming a modern industrial community. Bürmoos 1997, p. 18.
3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)