Otto Steinegger

Otto Steinegger (born May 8, 1888 in Innsbruck , Tyrol ; † January 17, 1950 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP , later ÖVP ).

Life

Otto Steinegger - son of a postal clerk - graduated after attending the elementary school , the schools in the South Tyrolean Brixen , as well as in Innsbruck. In 1909 he enrolled at the University of Innsbruck , where he studied law until 1913 . In the First World War , Steinegger served as a reserve officer in Italy and Russia and was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1917. After his return to Tyrol he founded the so-called war participants and homecomers association .

Steinegger, who was a supporter of the ideas of the Christian Social Mayor of Vienna , Karl Lueger , himself joined the CSP. In 1925 he joined the party as a member of the Tyrolean state parliament , to which he was to belong until 1929. From 1929 to 1933 he worked in various administrative positions in the Innsbruck district administration . On April 27, 1934, after the elimination of parliament by the so-called corporate state , he entered the remaining National Council . However, after only five days, on May 2, 1934, he resigned from the first Austrian parliamentary chamber. He then sat from 1934 to 1938 as a member of the CSP, first in the State Council and later in the Bundestag .

In 1938 he was relieved of all his functions by the National Socialists and forced to retire. At first he earned his living as an insurance agent before he became a member of the so-called detoxification squad . In August 1944, Steinegger was arrested and taken into so-called protective custody in the Reichenau camp near Innsbruck. However, he was quickly released from her in October 1944.

In April 1945, Steinegger was rehabilitated. Only one month later he was a founding member of the Austrian Workers' Union (ÖAAB), a sub-organization of the new Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Steinegger was both deputy state chairman of the ÖAAB-Tirol and from 1946 to 1950 the state chairman of the Tyrolean People's Party . For the ÖVP, he moved back to the National Council in Vienna in December 1945. He stayed there for around four years until his death in January 1950.

Also from 1945 Otto Steinegger was chairman of the Tyrolean regional association of the Austrian gymnastics and sports union.

Otto Steinegger died in Innsbruck in 1950 at the age of 61.

Web links

• Otto Steinegger on the website of the Austrian Parliament