Rupert Quaderer (journalist)

Rupert Quaderer (9 May 1891 – 14 September 1975) was a politician and journalist from Liechtenstein.

Rupert Quaderer
Born	9 May 1891 Schaan, Liechtenstein
Died	14 September 1975 Schaan, Liechtenstein
Spouse	Maria Thöny ​ ​ (m. 1924; died 1974)​
Children	5, including Rupert Quaderer

Career

Quaderer was born on 9 May 1891 in Schaan as the son of his father by the same name and Katharina Bargetze. He had an apprenticeship as a bookseller at the Franz Unterberger bookstore in Feldkirch. In 1919, he opened a bookstore in Schaan. He worked in the law firm Ritter & Beck Rechtsanwälte for several years.^[1]

From 1924 to 1927 Quaderer was the Schaan municipal treasurer. He was a member of the local school board from 1938 to 1941 and from 1942 to 1948 a member of the Schaan municipal council as a member of the Patriotic Union.^[1] In 1938, and again from 1939 to 1940, he was the editor of the Liechtensteiner Vaterland.^[2] From 1946 to 1965 he was the head of the Liechtenstein Motor Vehicle Inspection Office.^[1]

Quaderer married Maria Thöny (31 October 1899 – 27 July 1974) on 17 November 1924 and they had five children together.^[1] His son, Rupert Quaderer is a Liechtenstein historian.^[3]

He died on 14 September 1975 in Schaan, aged 84 years old.^[4]