Max Haller (politician)

Max Haller (born October 13, 1895 in Bregenz , † July 19, 1971 there ) was an Austrian politician ( KPÖ ) and construction technician. In 1945 Haller was a member of the Vorarlberg State Committee for the KPÖ .

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Max Haller was born on October 13, 1895 as the son of the factory worker Anton Haller and his wife Rosalia in the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz. Haller first attended elementary school and the lower level of a grammar school in his hometown before he began an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman at Jenny & Schindler Elektrowerke. In 1914 Max Haller emigrated to Argentina , where, in addition to his job as a casual worker and later an employee of the Comp. Alemana Transatlantica de Electricidad has also been a guest student at the University of Buenos Aires . Six years later, in 1920, Haller returned to Bregenz and was hired as a technician at Elektra Bregenz . When he lost his job in 1924, Max Haller moved to Munich at short notice, but one year later he found a job again at Vorarlberg Illwerke in Vorarlberg. From 1928 to 1930 he was subsequently employed by the road construction management of the state of Vorarlberg. However, in 1930 he became unemployed again.

From 1933 to 1937, the future communist Haller was initially a member of the patriotic front loyal to the government . During this time he was briefly arrested in 1934 on suspicion of "communist activities", but later released for lack of evidence. After the Nazis came to power in the course of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938, Max Haller was briefly arrested again by the Gestapo , but was released very quickly. That same year he also took over the management of the company Vorarlberg gravel dredging and gravel works, Wocher and co . From April 23 to April 30, 1945 Max Haller was again in Gestapo custody in Bregenz.

After the liberation of Austria by the Allies, Haller was a member of the Communist Party, first from May 30 to June 13, 1945, City Councilor for Building and Public Utilities in Bregenz, then Vice Mayor of the city until December 18, 1945, and then until June 6, 1947 again city council with the departments of construction, urban planning, nature and monument preservation, library and gardening. Haller was a member of the Bregenz city ​​council until April 20, 1965 .

Max Haller assumed his most important political function as a member of the Vorarlberg State Committee provisionally set up by the Allied occupying power . To represent the communist interests he was appointed from October 19 to December 10, 1945 as a member without portfolio in the transitional government under its president Ulrich Ilg of the ÖVP . From 1945 Haller was also the party leader of the KPÖ Vorarlberg. After his death in 1971 his hometown Bregenz named a street after him, the "Max-Haller-Straße".

literature

• Helmut Swozilek (Ed.): Max Haller. An international - literature, art, politics . Vorarlberg State Museum , Bregenz 1992.

Web links

• Biography of Max Haller in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.