Thomas Lorenz (politician)

Thomas Lorenz (born January 19, 1865 in Zborovitz , Moravia , † February 24, 1945 in Dornbirn ) was an Austrian master shoemaker and politician ( SDAPÖ ). From 1918 to 1919 Lorenz was a substitute member of the Vorarlberg regional council and a member of the provisional Vorarlberg regional assembly .

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Thomas Lorenz was born on January 19, 1865 as the son of the machinist and citizen of Mährisch-Neustadt , Josef Lorenz, and his wife Anna (née Kopecký) in Zborovitz in the then Austrian Moravia. After attending elementary school, Lorenz completed an apprenticeship as a shoemaker and became a master shoemaker. In 1896 he married Sofie Köb, born in Höchst , in Dornbirn , with whom he had five children between 1896 and 1908. The family settled in the Vorarlberg town of Dornbirn, where Thomas Lorenz opened his own shoemaker's shop in 1910.

From 1916 to 1917 Thomas Lorenz was drafted into military service in World War I , where he was awarded the Iron Cross for his service . After returning from the war, Lorenz became politically active in the burgeoning Republic of German Austria for the Social Democratic Workers' Party of German Austria, for which he had already acted as local chairman before the First World War. He became a member of the Vorarlberg provisional state assembly , which met for the first time on November 3, 1918 and existed until after the first state election in 1919 . At the same time, he was also a substitute member of the Vorarlberg Regional Council for his party colleague Franz Rauscher , which initially acted as the provisional state government and from November 14, 1918 as the state's administrative body.

In addition to his political activities, Lorenz was also involved in the supervisory board of the Dornbirn consumer cooperative , in the workers' choir and in the Friends of Nature .

Web links

• Biography of Thomas Lorenz in the parliamentary documents of the Vorarlberg Landtag.