Lorenz Dür

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Lorenz Dür (born May 22, 1885 in Hard ; † September 13, 1936 in Dornbirn ) was an Austrian politician ( CS ) and priest. Dür was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from 1918 to 1933 .

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Lorenz Dür was born on May 22, 1885 as the son of the timber merchant Josef Anton Dür and his wife Agatha in the Lake Constance municipality of Hard . In Brixen he attended the Vinzentinum grammar school and then the Stella Matutina in Feldkirch . There he completed his Matura in 1905. He then began studying Catholic theology at the University of Innsbruck , which he completed in 1911. He was ordained a priest on July 26, 1909, and from 1911 worked as a provisional chaplain for the Sisters of Mercy in Kettenbrück near Innsbruck. From 1911 to 1912 he was provisional parish priest in Hard, from 1912 to 1915 he was alternately early knife in Satteins , Röthis and finally in Dornbirn . In 1915 he was appointed Expositus of Dornbirn Haselstauden . From 1917 he worked as secretary and president of the Vorarlberg workers' union in Dornbirn.

In 1918 Lorenz Dür was elected for the first time as a member of the provisional Vorarlberg state assembly for the Christian Social Party . From 1919 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament as a member of the Feldkirch electoral district . He resigned this function on December 15, 1933 “by order of the superior church authority”.

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