Kurt Balla

Kurt Balla (born September 21, 1923 in Galați , Romania ; † August 12, 1995 in Bad Sauerbrunn , Burgenland ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), WIFI director and sports functionary. Balla was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1968 to 1972 .

Life

Balla was born as the son of carpenter Ernst Balla from Kisbér (Hungary) and his wife Agnes Balla, née Kolarjik, from Zillingtal (Burgenland) in Romania. He grew up in Vienna from 1924 and initially attended elementary school there. In 1932 his family moved to Bad Sauerbrunn, where he continued to attend elementary school. He then moved to the Realgymnasium in Mattersburg and from 1938 to the Oberschule for boys in Eisenstadt, where he passed the Matura in 1943 . He then went to work in the Wiener Neustädter aircraft factory and then served in the Wehrmacht from 1944 to 1945 , where he was a prisoner of war until December 24, 1945. After his return from the war he studied between 1946 and 1949 at the University of World Trade in Vienna and graduated on October 31, 1949 with the academic degree “Dkfm.”. Between 1950 and 1953 he gained professional experience in the textile industry and between 1954 and 1958 worked as a self-employed sales representative in the textile sector. He also worked as the head of the commercial representatives in the Burgenland Chamber of Commerce and was active as a teacher at the Eisenstadt Commercial Academy from 1958 to 1960 . He then switched to WIFI Burgenland as a course instructor in 1960 and took over the management of the WIFI Burgenland in 1974 and the position of director in 1984.

politics

Balla was involved in local politics and was mayor of Bad Sauerbrunn from 1958 to 1972. He worked within the party as ÖVP local party chairman and represented the ÖVP between April 17, 1968 and November 3, 1972 as a member of the Burgenland Landtag. He was active as a competitive athlete in the field of tennis and long-distance running and was President of the Burgenland Tennis Association from 1967 to 1987. In 1982 he received the Gold Medal of Honor for special services to tennis.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Volume 2: (1945–1995) (= Burgenland Research. 76). Burgenland State Archives, Eisenstadt 1996, ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .