Richard Walser

Richard Walser (born February 22, 1897 in Innerbraz , † May 14, 1945 in Dalaas ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ), farmer and gendarme . From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the Vorarlberg state parliament .

education and profession

Walser completed his compulsory education at the elementary school of his birthplace Innerbraz and then worked as a shepherd in Swabia at the age of 12 in 1909. From 1914 he worked on a large agricultural estate in Lower Austria and then did military service at the front in South Tyrol between 1915 and 1918 during the First World War . After his return from the war, Walser attended the gendarmerie school in Bregenz in 1918 and was employed as a gendarme in Hörbranz and Bregenz after graduation . He was then assigned to the district inspector in Bregenz and from 1927 to the public prosecutor's office as a detective. In 1930 he was transferred to Bludenz, although he had to be retired in 1933 due to illness. He then took over his parents' farm and ran it as a farmer.

Politics and functions

Walser was a member of the Christian Social Party and was involved as a member of the Brown Cattle Breeding Association, where he also took on the role of judge and temporarily chaired the association. He subsequently also became a member of the Fatherland Front and was also active as a member of the Heimatwehr in their local group Braz, where in 1933 he took over the position of the Heimatwehr commander. Furthermore, Walser was a member of the Vorarlberger Bauernbundes (Innerländer Bauernbund). He worked in local politics from 1935 to 1936 as a member of the Innerbraz municipal council and then from 1936 to 1938 as the mayor of the municipality. Even after the Second World War he was mayor of Innerbraz in 1945. In 1936 he was appointed as a representative of the agriculture and forestry profession by the Vorarlberg governor to the state parliament and subsequently belonged to the state parliament during the period of the corporate state and Austro-Fascism from July 10, 1936 until the annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938 on. He succeeded the resigned MP Josef Vonbank and in the 1936 session he was a member of the Agriculture Committee.

Private

Walser was born as the son of the farmer Johann Josef Walser (1855-1933) and Josefa Burtscher (1857-1921). Both of his parents were born in Dalaas. Richard Walser married Maria Paulina Meier, born in Göfis , on February 13, 1928 in Absam and between 1929 and 1945 he was the father of seven children.

Awards

• Small Silver Medal of Bravery (First World War)

Web links

• Biography of Richard Walser in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg state parliament.