!!!Bauchinger, Matthäus

b. Frankenburg (Upper Austria), Sept. 3, 1851, 
d. Poechlarn (Lower Austria), April 9, 1934, politician (Christian 
Socialist Party). Parish priest in Poechlarn, prelate; 1907-1918 
member of the Reichsrat, organised the agricultural sector in Lower 
Austria; founded 1898 the Central Agricultural Credit Cooperative 
(Landwirtschaftliche Genossenschafts-Zentralkasse, now the Raiffeisen 
Landsbank for Lower Austria and Vienna), in 1927 established the 
Girozentrale for Austrian Agricultural Cooperatives, now the  
Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich AG. From 1920 to 1931 he was 
chairman to the Austrian Raiffeisen Federation  Oesterreichischer 
Raiffeisenverband.

!Literature
E. Rabl, M. B., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1974; OeBL.



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