Kaspar Schwärzler

Kaspar Schwärzler (born November 24, 1880 in Egg , Vorarlberg ; † July 20, 1966 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CS , ÖVP ) and farmer. Schwärzler was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1932 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1959 .

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Kaspar Schwärzler was born on November 24, 1880 as the son of the farmer Alexander Schwärzler and his wife Maria Anna in the Bregenzerwald community of Egg. From 1886 to 1894 Schwärzler attended elementary school in his home parish before he worked as an alpine servant in summer and as a worker on his father's farm at the age of 14. In 1898, at the age of 18, he began working as a hand embroiderer and farmhand. On October 13, 1919, he married Angelika Geser in the parish church of St. Nicholas in his home parish , with whom he had two sons in the following years.

In 1924, Kaspar Schwärzler was both elected to the community council of Egg and appointed as a sworn valuer of the community. From 1930 to 1938 he was subsequently a community leader and, from 1931, also community legaliser . On November 22, 1932, Kaspar Schwärzler entered the Vorarlberg state parliament for the first time for the Christian Social Party as a member of the Bregenz electoral district . On November 14, 1934, after the new electoral law was passed in the course of the establishment of the Austro-Fascist corporate state , Schwärzler was reappointed a member of the Landtag by Governor Ernst Winsauer as a representative of the agriculture and forestry profession. He was removed from all of these offices when the National Socialists came to power in the course of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich. In 1942 he was also deprived of the activity of a helper in tax matters due to "political unreliability".

After the Second World War and the liberation of Austria by the Allies, Schwärzler was elected mayor of the municipality of Egg and, in the first free state election in Vorarlberg in 1945, he was re-elected as a member of the state parliament for the newly founded Austrian People's Party. He remained mayor until 1950, member of the state parliament until October 28, 1959. He then worked as a community legaliser until 1961 and as a sworn appraiser until 1962 in his home community, which made him an honorary citizen in 1962. In 1951 he had already been honored with the title of Economic Council and in 1964 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the State of Vorarlberg .

Web links

• The biography of Kaspar Schwärzler in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.