Max Lotteraner

Max Lotteraner (born March 11, 1928 in Linz ; † June 29, 2009 ) was a Linz politician ( SPÖ ) and athlete.

Life

Lotteraner comes from a working class family. After primary and secondary school, he attended the state engineering school specializing in electrical engineering in Linz. From 1933 he belonged to the Arbeiter-Turn und Sportverein (ATSV) Linz as well as the Kinderfreunde . His father, a railroad worker, was arrested on February 12, 1934 for political reasons (member of the military gymnast in the Republican Protection Association ). After he was wounded as a “ Hoch und Deutschmeister ” in World War II , he made up his Matura in 1947 and studied for six semesters at the Vienna University of Technology. He had to break off his studies for health reasons.

politics

After a short interlude with the company Sprecher & Schuh in Linz, he joined the Chamber of Labor in Upper Austria in 1953, where he was in charge of the press office and founded its body AK-Report . Lotteraner was a co-founder of the Vocational Promotion Institute in Upper Austria - from 1965 he also worked for the International Conference of Labor and Social History (ITH). His interest in educational work and the history of the labor movement was also expressed in connections to the Steyr Work World Museum and the Dr. Karl Renner Institute , the SPÖ's political academy. From 1973 to 1977 he was a local councilor in Linz and a member of the building regulations committee and the school and culture committee.

Sports

Lotteraner practiced primarily athletics and handball at the ATSV Linz- Waldegg and was also active there as a sports functionary (gymnastics and ski warden). As a teenager he was national champion several times and in 1948 Austrian academic master in track and field all-around. He won the Austrian national championship in field handball with the ATSV Linz-Waldegg in 1947, 1951, 1952 and 1954.

Awards

• Science Medal of the City of Linz , 1989
• Victor Adler State Prize for the History of Social Movements , 1987
• Awarded the professional title of Professor (Prof.) for his work in the field of adult education by Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger , 1980.

literature

• Walter Blumberger, Josef Weidenholzer (ed.): Is knowledge power? Does education make you free? Max Lotteraner on his 60th birthday. Linz 1988, ISBN 3-900581-08-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Blumberger, Josef Weidenholzer (ed.): Is knowledge power? Does education make you free? Max Lotteraner on his 60th birthday. Linz 1988, p. 9 u. 15th
2. ↑ Obituary of the AK Upper Austria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 30, 2010.  
3. ^ Obituary of the ITH , accessed on March 30, 2010.
4. ^ Obituary of the SPÖ Upper Austria , accessed on March 30, 2010.
5. ^ Obituary by the City of Linz , accessed on March 30, 2010.
6. ^ Chronicle of ATSV Linz-Waldegg ( Memento from October 4, 2003 in the Internet Archive )