Meinrad Hämmerle

Meinrad Hämmerle (born January 30, 1901 in Dornbirn , † March 28, 1973 in Bludenz ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP / SPÖ ) and factory worker. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After attending the Dornbirn-Markt elementary school for seven years , he switched to the Dornbirn vocational training school for three years. From 1915 to 1921 he was servant at Victor Hämmerle in Dornbirn and then from 1921 to 1924 he worked as a magazine assistant at FM Hämmerle in Dornbirn. As a result, his life was marked by unemployment and illness, before he found a job as a worker at the Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt in Dornbirn from 1925 to 1926. From 1927 to 1938 he was a goods inspector at FM Hämmerle in Dornbirn and from March 1938 to June 1938 he was President of the Chamber of Labor in Feldkirch . From 1941 to 1942 he was a commercial clerk with the Ölz brothers in Bregenz and served in the Navy from 1942 , although he was only able to return from British captivity in 1946 . He then worked from 1947 to 1955 as a commercial clerk at the Hermann Köberl company in Bludenz and then from 1956 to 1958 as a clerk at the Vorarlberg Illwerke in Schruns .

Politics and functions

Hämmerle was a member of the Reich Association of Catholic-German Youth in Austria in Dornbirn and acted as its chairman from 1922 to 1923. In addition, from 1923 to 1927 he was regional chairman of the Christian textile workers' union. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP and, as a member of the Feldkirch constituency, was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament from November 22, 1932 to July 24, 1933. He lost his seat on June 19, 1933 because his party was banned. After the annexation of Austria , Hämmerle took over the office of a National Council of the NSDAP from March 13, 1938 to June 15, 1938, but was expelled from the NSDAP on June 15, 1938 and arrested by the Bregenz Gestapo on June 18, 1938 . Taken July 1938 from Innsbruck prison to the Dachau concentration camp , where he had to work in the granite quarries in Flossenbürg for the most part until his provisional release on April 20, 1940 . On October 15, 1940, his “ protective custody ” was lifted by the Innsbruck Gestapo.

After the Second World War , Hämmerle became a member of the Austrian Socialist Party in 1951 and a member of the city council of Bludenz in 1955. He was also involved in the animal welfare association of the Bludenz district and the Bludenz tenants' association.

Private

Meinrad Hämmerle was the son of the locksmith Kasimir Hämmerle (1873–1955) and his wife Maria Luise Huber (1877–1950). He married Anna Kadoff, née Gumprecht, (1912–1974) on January 18, 1947 in Bludenz. His wife, who was born in Bremen, had two daughters from his first marriage. Hämmerle himself had three children between 1947 and 1957.

literature

Pichler, Meinrad : Between all fronts. Rise and fall of the worker functionary Meinrad Hämmerle (1901–1973) from Dornbirn, in: ders .: Quergang. Vorarlberg history in résumés . Hohenems 2007, pp. 252-261

Web links

• Biography of Meinrad Hämmerle (PDF; 92 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.