Otto Ender
Otto Ender ( born December 24, 1875 in Altach, † June 25, 1960 in Bregenz) was an Austrian politician ( CS) and Chancellor and Governor of Vorarlberg.
Life
Otto Ender studied after visiting the - known far beyond the borders of Vorarlberg addition - Jesuit College Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, which also visited his brethren law in Innsbruck, Freiburg im Breisgau, Prague and Vienna. He was a member of the A.V. since 1896 Innsbruck Austria, then in the CV, today in ACA. After receiving his doctorate in 1901 in Innsbruck, a year of court in Feldkirch and its Konzipiententätigkeit just there and in Vienna - the way he visited Vienna also courses on the Export Academy (later the University of World Trade ) - he was able to establish in 1908 as an attorney in Bregenz. In the same year he married his nine years younger Maria Rusch, a Swiss from the nearby Appenzell. Together they had seven children, four sons and three daughters, all born 1909-1918.
Otto Ender made - although a candidacy for the state legislature in 1912 had failed - a brilliant career: First, he was in 1913 director of the Vorarlberg State mortgage bank, from 1915 to 1919 he was their top director; during the First World War, he took over in 1916 was additionally in charge of the Vorarlberg branch of war grain traffic institution and finally he was in November 1918 as the successor to Adolf Rhomberg Governor of Vorarlberg. Initially, he advocated a connection from Vorarlberg to Switzerland, after failure of the project, he was a representative of an extended federalism. He was a member of the Federal Council ( 1920-1934 ) and member of the international regulation of the Rhine Commission ( 1919-1934 ). Despite the prohibition of censorship, he prevented the 1926 screening of the film Battleship Potemkin in Vorarlberg. Already in 1929 was finished as Chancellor in conversation, in December 1930, he was actually - the only Vorarlberg up today - Chancellor of the Republic. His government coalition collapsed, however, after a few months because of the collapse of the Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank at that time. The end of his chancellorship in June 1931 closely be read in conjunction with the first two Credit-Anstalt - laws with which the Republic took over the responsibility for various liabilities. Ender demanded at that time certain special powers by the National Council, which should make him an authoritarian governance, but were not granted. After his retirement, he served on 14 July 1931 to July 24, 1934 again as Governor of Vorarlberg.
Otto Ender had brought in March 1931 Engelbert Dollfuss as successor to the former Agriculture Minister Andreas Thaler in his cabinet. Dollfuss was known also under Enders successor Karl Buresch in this function was in May of 1932 self- Chancellor and again called Ender in September 1933 as Minister without portfolio in his cabinet. Ender was commissioned to draft a new constitution. He remained at the same governor and commuted regularly between Bregenz and Vienna. He was - as can be traced well in the edition of the Council of Ministers protocols of the Cabinet Dollfuss - spearheaded the drafting of the Constitution of May 1, 1934 ( " May Constitution " ) involved that eventually - after the defeat of the Social Democratic February Uprising 1934 - to the Constitution of the Austro-fascist corporate state was and also appeared in an annotated edition of it. His considerable reputation as an important representative of the democratic wing within the Christian Social Party, he could not meet. With his objections, he was not very successful, the word " Republic " has been deleted. From 1934 to 1938 Ender was President of the Court. The Nazis forced his resignation and occupied it with Gauverbot (for the Gauss Tyrol -Vorarlberg ), he therefore had until 1945, living in Vienna. After the Second World War, Otto Ender is again - and by the French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault - get offered the chancellorship, however, have rejected. Ender took no political office. He organized the takeover of the Vorarlberg State Museum (now Vorarlberg museum ) across the country - so far the Landesmuseum club owners and carriers had been - and pursued various transport policy interests, such as the navigability of the Rhine to Lake Constance to reach a port of Vorarlberg on Navigation on the Rhine ( In 1947 he became president of the Austrian Rhine Navigation Association ), a goal that could not be realized. 1960 Ender died at the age of 85 years, slightly more than a year after his wife.