Michael Mangold

Johann Michael Mangold (born April 29, 1889 in Lochau ; † August 16, 1968 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP / ÖVP ), master baker and innkeeper. From 1932 to 1934 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament and from 1947 to 1968 mayor of Lochau.

Life

education and profession

Mangold attended the elementary and community school in Bregenz and then completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer with Wilhelm Welz in Bregenz-Vorloster between 1904 and 1907. He continued his education for a year in Switzerland and attended the evening class of the mechanical engineering school at the state vocational school in Munich for two years during his traveling years. During his traveling years he also worked in Italy, in the Kronland coastal region, in Carinthia, Salzburg and Germany. He performed his military service from 1910 to 1913 as an armorer with the 1st Kaiserschützenregiment in Trento , after which he completed further professional training in Munich from 1913 to 1914. He served between 1914 and 1918 in the First World War and fought in the Carpathian Mountains, in Poland and Russia as well as on the fronts on the Isonzo and in South Tyrol.

After his return from the war, he completed an apprenticeship as a high-voltage technician at the Vorarlberg power plants in Rieden from 1919 and then worked as a foreman and later in a chief fitter position at VKW in Lustenau. In 1923 he changed his profession again when he started an apprenticeship as a baker and subsequently took over the family business of a bakery with an inn.

Politics and functions

Mangold joined the Christian Social Party and worked as its local party leader in Lochau. He was also involved as a member of the Christian metalworkers' union and was sworn in on November 22, 1932 as a member of the Bregenz constituency in the Vorarlberg state parliament. He was a member of the Finance and Tax Committee, the Economic Committee and the Legal Committee and resigned from the state parliament on November 13, 1934. In local politics he was active from 1926 as a member of the local council of Lochau and from 1926 was also vice chairman in Lochau. In 1938 he lost his mandates when the National Socialists came to power. After the end of the Second World War , Mangold was a member of the provisional committee of Bregenz from 1945 to 1947 as a representative of the Lochau parliamentary group and from 1947 to 1968 mayor of Lochau.

Private

Michael Mangold was the son of the master baker and innkeeper Alois Mangold and his wife Maria Aschenbrenner. He married Anna Josefina Bickel in 1921 and had one daughter each in 1925 and 1926. After his wife had already died in 1936, he married Maria Katharina Ritter in 1937, with five sons born between 1938 and 1948 from his second marriage.

Awards

• Great Silver Medal of Valor (World War I)
• Emperor Karl Troop Cross (First World War)
• Honorary Citizen of Lochau (1967)
• Ring of Honor of the Municipality of Lochau (1967)
• Julius Raab Medal (1958)

Web links

• Biography of Michael Mangold (PDF; 91 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.