Dr. Johann Josef Mittelberger

Johann Josef Mittelberger attended grammar school in Feldkirch, where he graduated in 1899. He is one of the co-founders of the Montfort Götzis vacation group. He completed his studies in German and classical philology at the University of Innsbruck with a doctorate. He then taught at the BG in Bregenz as well as in Braunau/Bohemia and in St. Pölten. From 1918 to 1934, he was also politically active as a member of parliament for the CSP, in 1923 as a regional finance councillor in Vorarlberg and in 1929 for five months as finance minister of the Republic of Austria.

His opposition to National Socialism was to be his undoing after the Anschluss. In August 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned for two months in Reichenau/Innsbruck.

After the war, he took over as commercial director of Vorarlberger Kraftwerke [VKW], on whose supervisory board he had already been a member (1929-1934) and president (1934-1938).