Wilhelm Greil

Wilhelm Greil (born May 25, 1850 in Innsbruck ; † May 13, 1928 there ) was an Austrian entrepreneur, German-free politician and mayor of Innsbruck from 1897 to 1923.

Life

Wilhelm Greil was born as the son of the textile merchant Franz Johann Anton Greil and Margareth Greil in Innsbruck. He took up his father's profession and continued to run the Greil cloth house on Maria-Theresien-Straße . In 1885 he was elected to the citizens' committee (local council), where he was a member of the service and legal section as well as the finance and hospital management section. In 1886 he was elected deputy mayor and in 1896 mayor. He held this office until his resignation in 1923. He was also a member of the German Freedom Party in the Tyrolean state parliament from 1902 to 1904 .

During Greil's tenure, important infrastructure projects were carried out such as the electrification of the local railway Innsbruck – Hall in Tyrol , the construction of the Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn and the Stubaitalbahn , the acquisition of the Mühlau electricity works , the construction of the Sillwerke and, in 1906, the construction of the funicular to the Hungerburg . The sewer system and drinking water pipeline were expanded, public baths and a slaughterhouse were built. In 1904 the previously independent municipality of Wilten and the Amras Pradl fraction were incorporated into Innsbruck. This increased the number of residents in the state capital to 40,000. In 1919 the city of Innsbruck acquired the Achensee , which with the founding of TIWAG and the construction of the Achensee power plant under his successor Anton Eder formed the basis of the city's energy supply.

Honors

Wilhelm Greil was made an honorary citizen in 1923 and is buried in a city grave of honor in Innsbruck's Westfriedhof . In 1919, while Greil was still in office, the municipal council decided to rename the previous Karlstrasse in the city center to Wilhelm-Greil-Strasse .

literature

Karl Paulin: Tyrolean heads. Selected contemporary histories of life . Innsbruck 1953.
L. Morscher: Greil, Wilhelm . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Individual evidence

↑ City of Innsbruck: Honorary Citizen of the City of Innsbruck (PDF; 216 kB)
^ City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)
↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 40-41 .

personal data
SURNAME	Greil, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH	May 13, 1928
Place of death	innsbruck

[1] City of Innsbruck: Honorary Citizen of the City of Innsbruck (PDF; 216 kB)

[2] City of Innsbruck: Honorary graves of the city of Innsbruck (PDF; 223 kB)

[3] Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 40-41 .