Matthias Bierbaum

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Provincial Councilor Matthias Bierbaum at the address for the 100th anniversary of the Krems Wine School in 1975.

Matthias Bierbaum (born December 28, 1916 in Neusiedl an der Zaya ; † August 24, 1995 there ) was an Austrian farmer and politician ( ÖVP ). Bierbaum was regional councilor in the Lower Austrian regional government from 1966 to 1980 .

Life

Bierbaum attended elementary school in Neusiedl and the community school in Poysdorf before he graduated from an agricultural school. Bierbaum did his military and war service between 1937 and 1945, where he was ultimately taken prisoner by the British. Bierbaum then worked as a farmer. Bierbaum was awarded the professional title of economics councilor.

He began his public career in the early 1950s, as a member of the Presidium of the Lower Austrian Farmers' Union (from 1950) and as a district chamber councilor in Zistersdorf . In 1955 he became a regional chamber councilor in the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture before he appeared as chairman of the Mistelbach regional chamber of farmers from 1960. After serving as Vice President of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture from 1962 to 1970, he was its President from 1970 to 1985.

In addition, he held the office of chairman of the Lower Austrian Piglet Producers Cooperative from 1964 to 1967, and from October 24, 1966 to March 27, 1980, he was active as an agricultural councilor in the Lower Austrian regional government . From 1966 to 1969 he was also a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament .

Furthermore, Bierbaum was regional hunter master of Lower Austria from 1966 to 1991 . In 1976 he was awarded the Great Silver Medal of Honor for services to the Republic of Austria because of his services to state technical schools, the Lower Austrian Agricultural Act, the expansion of freight routes, the grain market regime and the livelihood of family farms . When he was active in the grain market regime, he was confronted with the problem of surpluses.

After he had previously held the office of vice mayor of his home town of Neusiedl, Bierbaum was elected mayor of the town of Neusiedl an der Zaya in 1960. He held that position for 30 years before stepping down in 1990 at the age of 73. During his time as mayor he sealed the partnership between the community of Neusiedl and the community of Kaltenbach in the Zillertal with the then partner mayor Hans Scheffauer . The contact came mainly through Bierbaum's relationship with the local and internationally active vehicle manufacturer Empl and its managing director Josef “Pepi” Empl, with whom Bierbaum had a long friendship, and Bierbaum's family vacations in Kaltenbach.

Bierbaum was the initiator, sponsor, co-founder and first president of the ÖTB TV Neusiedl / Zaya association, which was founded in 1971 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Partner community Neusiedl an der Zaya (Lower Austria) ( Memento from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Partner community Kaltenbach im Zillertal , accessed on May 10, 2017
  3. ↑ ÖTB TV Neusiedl / Zaya on the official website of Neusiedl / Zaya , accessed on May 10, 2017
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Bierbaum, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Neusiedl an der Zaya , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1995
Place of death Neusiedl an der Zaya , Austria