Oskar Natter

Oskar Natter (born April 4, 1898 in Bezau ; † January 24, 1968 there ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and innkeeper. From 1959 to 1964 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Natter attended elementary school in Bezau for five years and then completed the commercial training school and business school in Mehrerau . Between 1913 and May 1915, Natter worked as a trainee at the Fratelli Armellini company in Salvis , after which he worked in his parents' restaurant until May 1916. He served in World War I from May 1916 and was taken prisoner in Italy during the course of the war, from which he was only able to return in August 1919. After that, Natter worked again in his parents 'business, was subsequently employed as an accountant at the Carreri winery in Trento from 1922 to 1923 and returned to his parents' inn in 1924. After working in the family business until 1935, in 1935 he took over his parents' inn and hotel "Post" in Bezau. In 1961 he handed over the business to one of his daughters, and in the same year he was given the professional title of commercial councilor .

Politics and functions

Natter was already active as a member of the Bezau municipal council in the interwar period. He was a member of it from 1929 to 1938 and was Vice Mayor of his home municipality after the end of World War II in 1945. He also represented the ÖVP, which he had joined after the Second World War, from 1945 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1965 in the municipal council. Within the party, Natter held the function of a member of the state party leadership of the ÖVP Vorarlberg from 1959 to 1964 , and during this time he was also a member of the state party council of the ÖVP Vorarlberg. As a member of the electoral district of Bregenz , he represented the ÖVP in the state parliament between November 18, 1959 and October 28, 1964, replacing Gerold Ratz, who was elected to the regional council . Natter was a member of the Finance Committee and a member of the Economics Committee.

Natter was already active in the professional representation during the interwar period and worked in the Bregenzerwald innkeepers' cooperative and as deputy chairman of the Bregenzerwald association. He was also a member of the working committee of the regional association for tourism and a board member of the savings and loan fund Bezau and chairman of the Raiffeisenkasse Bezau. Furthermore, after the Second World War, Natter was deputy head of the specialist group for accommodation providers and a member of the supervisory board of the Vorarlberg Raiffeisen Association, worked as a member of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce and was deputy chairman of the tourism section of the Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce. He was also a member of the supervisory board of Schloß-Hofen Betriebs-GmbH, chairman of the Bezau tourist office, chairman of the comradeship association, member of the Bezau parish council, member of the Bezau church choir and manager of the Sonderdach-Baumgarten cable car.

Web links

• Biography of Oskar Natter (PDF; 89 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.