Dr. Otto Ender

After graduating from "Stella Matutina" in Feldkirch in 1896, Otto Ender began his law studies in Innsbruck, where he was accepted into the student fraternity Austria Innsbruck in 1896.

In 1898, he moved to Freiburg/Switzerland, then to Prague and in the fall of 1899 to Vienna. In 1901, he obtained his doctorate in law in Innsbruck and became a lawyer in Bregenz in 1908.

During the First World War, he was head of the War Grain Transport Office in Bregenz from 1916 to 1918. On November 3, 1918, he became provincial president and a month later the first governor of Vorarlberg. From 1918-1920, he campaigned for the political separation of Vorarlberg from Tyrol and an annexation to Switzerland. From 1920-1934 he was a member of the Federal Council and from 1919-1934 of the International Rhine Regulation Commission. From December 1930 to June 1931, he held the office of Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria and then again headed the state of Vorarlberg as Governor until 1934. In 1933 he was appointed Minister for Constitutional and Administrative Reform. From 1934-1938, Otto Ender was President of the Court of Audit in Vienna.

After the Anschluss, he was arrested on March 25, 1938 and released after six months in Gestapo custody in Bregenz, Innsbruck and Vienna on the condition that he no longer enter the Tyrol/Vorarlberg region. This ban from the district remained in force until the end of the war.