Rupert Kastner

Rupert Kastner (born December 6, 1880 in Großgmain ; † December 1, 1947 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( GDVP ) and city architect. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the State Parliament of Salzburg and also its vice-president.

education and profession

Kastner was born in Großgmain and attended elementary school in his birthplace. After compulsory school he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in Bad Reichenhall from 1894 to 1897 and then continued his education from 1898 to 1901 at the building trade department of the kk Staatsgewerbeschule in Salzburg. From 1901 to 1902 he worked as a foreman in his parents' construction company and then from 1902 to 1903 as a draftsman in Salzburg. Kastner then worked as a construction technician in Vienna from 1903 to 1908 , after which he returned to Großgmain. In his hometown he worked as a master builder from 1908 to 1914, after which he moved to Salzburg as a master builder in 1914. Kastner subsequently worked as a builder in Salzburg until the year he died, although his work was interrupted between 1917 and 1918 by the war deployment as a regional storm engineer in Italy. Kastner was appointed to the Commercial Council in 1930 .

Politics and functions

Kastner was very active as a professional representative in the inter-war period, from 1921 to 1924 as chairman of the trade cooperative association of the state capital Salzburg and from 1926 to 1934 the function of vice-president of the state capital association of trade cooperatives. From 1922 to 1934 he was also head of the building trade in the city of Salzburg and from 1934 to 1938 he took over the post of federal guild master for the building trade. He also acted from 1934 to 1938 as chairman of the state trade association in the "Federation of Austrian Traders" and from 1926 to 1934 chaired the industrial district commission. Kastner was a member of the Sparkasse Committee of the Salzburger Sparkasse from 1923 to 1932.

Politically, he was active for the Greater German People's Party, for which he worked within the party from 1932 to 1934 as deputy Gau party leader in the city of Salzburg. Between 1921 and 1927 he was a member of the Salzburg City Council, and on November 22, 1934, he became a member of the State Parliament of Salzburg as a representative of the trade. Until the National Socialists came to power, he was a member of the state parliament and held the office of vice-president throughout his entire membership in the state parliament.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .