Matthias Pinter

Matthias Pinter (born October 21, 1922 in Schattendorf , † November 3, 1996 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ ) and principal school director. Pinter was a member of the Burgenland Landtag from 1968 to 1987 and President of the Landtag from 1977 to 1982.

Life

After primary school in Schattendorf, Pinter attended the Burgenland lower secondary school in Mattersburg and, from 1939, the high school for boys in Hollabrunn , where he graduated from high school in 1941 . He then served in the German Wehrmacht from 1941 and became a British prisoner of war, from which he returned in 1946. From 1946 to 1947 he attended the high-school graduate course in Krems an der Donau and then worked as a primary school teacher in Schattendorf. In 1962 he took over the function of elementary school director, and in 1953 he had already passed the teaching qualification test for secondary schools in the subjects of German, history and geography. In 1965 Pinter became principal school director in Schattendorf. In 1973, he was awarded the professional title of senior teacher.

Pinter was born the son of the railway worker Josef Pinter from Schattendorf and was married. After his death he was buried in Schattendorf.

politics

Pinter became a member of the SPÖ in 1950 and worked as a councilor in Schattendorf from 1954 . From 1957 to 1975 he held the office of mayor of Schattendorf. In addition, he was active within the party from 1968 to 1985 as district party chairman of the SPÖ district of Mattersburg and between 1973 and 1975 as the executive state party secretary of the SPÖ Burgenland. He represented the SPÖ from April 17, 1968 to October 30, 1987 in the state parliament and was also the executive club chairman in the state parliament from 1972 to 1975 and, from October 27, 1977, president of the state parliament. Furthermore, from 1974 to 1986 Pinter was editor-in-chief of the Burgenland Freedom and from 1987 regional chairman of the pensioners' association . Pinter was convicted on November 29, 1993 in the follow-up trial of the so-called "Causa Sinowatz" for false testimony.

literature

• Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research; 76), ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .