Ministerialrat Dr. Karl Lugmayer

Karl Lugmayer is born as the son of a doctor (rapporteur) whose family comes from the mill district. In 1895, it will be the Executive Board of the subsidiary customs office in Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald (Bezirk Rohrbach) at the Bavarian-Upper-Austrian border. His mother is closely related to the abbot of Kremsmünster, Augustin Resslhuber, who was also a national leader of Upper Austria and a manor.

Karl Lugmayer visits the Volksschule in Schwarzenberg, then from 1903 the episcopal Gymnasium Petrinum in Linz. After retiring the father, the family will settle for Linz-Urfahr, so that Lugmayer and 1909 will switch to the state gymnasium that he completed in 1911.

Lugmayer then studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Vienna for the faculty of Latin and French (Dr. phil. 1916 sub auspiciis imperatoris in French), where he joined Aargau in 1913. In order to finance his studies, he worked as an auxiliary stenographer in the Reichsrat and at the Central Commission of Christian Trade Unions under Leopold Kunschak.

For health reasons, Karl Lugmayer is not moved to military service. Lugmayer also comes into contact with the Reichsbund of the Christian Workers' Youth and works there in the Education Commission. After 1918 he is used in the Education Council of the State Office (Ministry) for Heerwesen, where the well-known writer Robert Musil is also active.

As an employee of the Christian trade unions, he presents a draft for a programme in Linz on the 10th anniversary of the “Reichsverband der non-political Workers’ Associations of Christian Workers of Austria”. In this he confesses, among other things, to the encyclical “Rerum novarum” and to democracy.

From 1924 to 1927, Karl Lugmayer studies at the Faculty of Law and State Sciences of the University of Vienna. From 1925 to 1935, he is also the author of the periodic journal “New Order” published by the Reichsverband. For this time it can be referred to as the theorist or programmatic ideologue of the Christian worker movement. In this capacity he holds numerous corresponding lectures and publishes a lot. However, these main and secondary occupations give him health. He is also a member of the “Catholic Sociologists Study Round” founded in 1929 by Anton Orel.

In 1934, Karl Lugmayer became a popular education officer of Vienna. As a result, he will be head of the People's Education Centre in Vienna in 1936. In this function he also builds a Jewish folk college. He himself has a rather distant relationship with the state of the state of the state because he does not correspond to his social theoretical ideas. However, it is from 1 November 1934 until 12th. Member of the Federal Cultural Council in March 1938 and is initially actively involved in the “Social Working Group” of the Patriotic Front (VF). There are also contacts with the Viktor Matejka, located on the left wing of the VF, which is KPÖ City Council in Vienna after 1945.

After the connection, Karl Lugmayer will be on 28. March 1938 of his office as head of the People's Education Office, and on 30 March 1939 dismissed by forced retirement. He is supervised by the Gestapo, who also seized his works. He lives together with his parents during the war in Vienna-Ottakring (Siedlung Starchant), deals with various studies (including philosophy, Russian) and also listens to lectures at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur.

In the further course of the war, Karl Lugmayer is active in the resistance circle around Lois Weinberger, which also belong to Felix Hurdes and Karl Kummer, where the illegal reorganization of the Christian workers' movement is carried out. From these considerations, the 14th is born. April 1945 at the Laudongasse of the Austrian Workers' and Employees' Association (ÖAAB), whose president is Leopold Kunschak.

Karl Lugmayer becomes the 27th president of Karl Renner. April 1945 to the Secretary of State (after today's understanding State Secretary) in the State Office (Ministry) for People's Education, Education and Cultural Affairs under the direction of the Communist Ernst Fischer. He disguises this function until December 20, 1945. At the beginning, he can, in principle, save religious lessons from which one can unsubscribe but does not have to register. During this time, he will introduce the field of fermentation technology at the University of Soil Culture, which is now called biotechnology.

From 19 December 1945 to 11 In December 1959, Karl Lugmayer is a member of the Federal Council, sent by the Viennese Landtag, whose permanent Deputy Chairman he was appointed from 1 July 1951 to 31 December December 1956. He is once again assigned to the Ministry of Education.

Karl Lugmayer became Vice President in 1946, then until 1972 President of the Austrian League for Human Rights. Due to his function in the Ministry of Education, he is also temporarily Chairman of the Book Club of Youth.