Pius Köhlmeier

Pius Köhlmeier (born February 1, 1877 in Hard ; † December 2, 1937 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ), teacher and headmaster. From 1923 to 1928 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament and from 1919 to 1928 Vice Mayor of Hard.

education and profession

Köhlmeier attended the teachers' college in Feldkirch between 1892 and 1896, where he also passed the Matura in 1896 . From 1896 he worked as a teacher in Krumbach-Glatzegg and finally received the teaching qualification test in Innsbruck in 1898 . In 1902 he moved to Hard as a teacher, and from 1931 to 1937 he was headmaster in Hard. Furthermore, he was in the war from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War .

Politics and functions

Köhlmeier was a member of the Christian Social Party and held the function of local party chairman of the Christian Social Party Hard. He was also a member of the regional culture council and acted as chairman of the Bregenz district organization, he was also involved as chairman of the Unterländer farmers 'association and was a member and, from 1920, a committee member of the Vorarlberg farmers' association. Köhlmeier ran for the Christian Social Party in the Bregenz constituency in the 1923 state elections and was sworn in as a representative of this constituency on November 6, 1923 in the Vorarlberg state parliament. He was a member of the state parliament until the end of the legislative period on April 1, 1928.

Köhlmeier was active in local politics from 1909 to 1914 as well as from 1918 to 1928 as a member of the local council of Hard, he was also a member of the local council in 1919 and vice-mayor of Hard from 1919 to 1928. He was also active as the first chairman of the Vorarlberg agricultural processing and purchasing cooperative ALMA, as a member of the Vorarlberg fruit processing cooperative Rankweil and as a member of the fruit growing association. In 1902 he was the first chairman of the Catholic workers' association, chairman of the Harder Comradeship Association and a member of the Heimatwehr. He is also involved as chairman of the “Falter” cycling association, conductor of the Hard church choir and member of the Catholic teachers' association for Vorarlberg.

Private

Pius Köhlmeier was the son of the farmer Johann Martin Köhlmeier (1839–1913) and his wife Maria Sophia Nagel (1841–1893). He married on April 22, 1903 in Hard Maria Geuze (1881–1957) and had three children between 1904 and 1908.

Web links

• Biography of Pius Köhlmeier in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.