Paul Peter

Paul Peter (born December 4, 1922 in Innsbruck ; † July 8, 1993 in Baden near Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( SPÖ , later DFP or FPÖ ) and state party secretary of the SPÖ Vorarlberg . From 1962 to 1969 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

After primary school in Innsbruck, Peter attended a local secondary school and then graduated from the Innsbruck Commercial Academy. He served in the German Wehrmacht from 1941 during the Second World War and returned from captivity in 1945. After his return in 1946 he joined the office of the Tyrolean provincial government and was employed by the employment office in Kufstein . In August 1953 he moved to the neighboring state of Vorarlberg as state party secretary of the SPÖ Vorarlberg and, after leaving the party in April 1965, also lost his position as state party secretary. From 1965 on, Peter was employed by the Marte cattle trade in Götzis.

Politics and functions

Peter became a member of the Socialist Party of Austria in 1946 and was involved as a youth shop steward for the SPÖ Tirol from 1946 to 1953. In Tyrol he was also a member of the SPÖ regional executive committee and worked from 1947 as a member of the federal executive committee of the Socialist Youth of Austria . He was also deputy district chairman of the SPÖ Kufstein. In Kufstein itself, Peter founded the Kufstein Youth Advisory Board and was chairman of the Kufstein Workers' Gymnastics and Sports Club. After moving to Vorarlberg, Peter became party chairman of the SPÖ Dornbirn and served from 1953 to 1965 as a member of the state party presidency of the SPÖ Vorarlberg. He was also state party secretary of the SPÖ Vorarlberg from 1953 to 1965 and became a member of the SPÖ federal party presidium at the federal level. He was also a member of the Vorarlberg State School Board from 1962 to 1969.

As a member of the electoral district of Feldkirch, Peter was sworn in as a member of the state parliament on April 5, 1962 and was head of the SPÖ state parliament club and member of the economic committee. In his second period as a member of the state parliament he was a member and deputy chairman of the Legal and Immunity Committee and a member of the Education Committee until December 9, 1965. After Paul Peter resigned or was excluded from the SPÖ in 1965, he joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DFP) of the former ÖGB boss Franz Olah and was a non-attached member of parliament from October 21, 1965. In 1965 he also took over the role of country chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party. In 1969 he switched to the Freedom Party of Austria.

Private

Peter was married from 1948 and had three children.

Web links

• Biography of Paul Peter (PDF; 98 kB) in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.