Sepp Wiesner

Sepp Wiesner (born September 18, 1927 in Braunau am Inn ; † October 14, 2002 in Mattsee ) was an Austrian politician ( VdU / FPÖ ) and timber merchant. From 1971 to 1983 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1983 to 1984 a state councilor in the Salzburg state government .

education and profession

Wiesner attended elementary school in his birthplace Braunau am Inn between 1933 and 1935 before he moved with his family to Mattsee in 1935. He continued to attend elementary school in Mattsee between 1935 and 1937 and then completed secondary school in Seekirchen am Wallersee from 1937 to 1941 . In 1941 he joined the Reichspost and began an apprenticeship. After completing his apprenticeship in 1944, he was employed in the Reich Labor Service between 1944 and 1945 and then fought as a volunteer with the Waffen SS . In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British and, after his release from captivity, completed a two-year apprenticeship as a carpenter. He then worked as an employee and from 1952 as a freelancer in the wood business.

Politics and functions

Sepp Wiesner joined the Association of Independents in 1949 and became a member of the FPÖ after the Freedom Party of Austria was founded. From 1949 to 1981 he was the local party leader of the VdU and the FPÖ in Mattsee, and from 1960 to 1967 he was the deputy district party leader of the FPÖ in Flachgau . Then he was district party chairman of the FPÖ-Flachgau from 1967 to 1983. After Wiesner had been sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on October 27, 1971, he was the club chairman of the FPÖ state parliament club from 1980 to 1983. On March 16, 1983, he moved to the Salzburg provincial government as regional councilor, to which he was a member until May 16, 1984. He was also active within the party from 1981 to 1982 as managing state party chairman and then from 1982 to 1985 as state party chairman of the FPÖ Salzburg. In addition, he worked from 1967 to 1981 as a member of the community council of Mattsee and was a member of the local council from 1979 to 1981.

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 .