DDr. Alois Lugger

Alois Lugger is born as the son of a gendarme. The family comes from the pilgrimage site Maria Luggau in the Kärntner-tirol border area and, after the death of the mother, dates back to Kufstein in 1919, where Lugger completed the primary school and the real gymnasium. There it is included in the middle school compound Cimbria. After the Matura in 1931 he began studying at the Faculty of Law and State Sciences of the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur. 1935, Dr. rer. pol. 1936) and joins the student association Austria Innsbruck.

After the court year at the Landesgericht Innsbruck, Alois Lugger entered the service of the Tyrolean state government in 1936 and becomes secretary of Landeshauptmann Josef Schumacher. After joining in March 1938, he is dismissed as a national servant and is certified with a work ban in the Gau Tirol and then for the whole “Eastern Mark”. He is therefore first acting as an economic lawyer in Vienna and then in Berlin (legal adviser at the AEG). In 1940 he was moved to the German Wehrmacht (Flak) and returned several times wounded (last grade of service Oberleutnant der Reserve).

After the war, Alois Lugger begins his political career and joins the ÖVP and the ÖAAB. He becomes the Tyrolean Minister of State and later the President of the Landtag. He is also the mayor of the city of Innsbruck from 1956 to 1983.