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Andreas Korp (born May 15, 1897 in Graz , † October 8, 1983 in Vienna ) was an Austrian manager and politician ( SPÖ ).

Life

After graduating from the commercial academy, Korp did military service in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 . From 1919 he was an employee of the Association of Styrian Consumers and Consumers and also studied political science at the universities of Vienna and Graz . In 1933, Korp was appointed to the management of the large purchasing company GöC in Vienna, where he specifically took care of the consumer cooperative department stores and their own production. In the corporate state and the NS system , Korp was able to maintain its position in the GöC.

On April 27, 1945, Karl Renner Korp appointed State Secretary for People's Nutrition to the Provisional State Government , but the Soviet occupying power vetoed his membership in the Figl I Federal Government, which was sworn in on December 20, 1945 - according to Otto Sagmeister because of an alleged one NS membership of the corps, which does not appear to be proven. From January 23, 1952, Korp served as State Secretary for Nutrition and Price Issues in the Figl II and Figl III cabinets (until April 2, 1953).

In the GöC, Korp was elected General Manager on October 27, 1949 and remained so until July 1, 1963. Korp did not give up his last important functions in the consumer cooperative association until 1971. The confrontation between the central institutions GöC and the consumer association, dominated by the provincial cooperatives, on the one hand, and the most powerful individual cooperative, the KGW, on the other, personified in contrast to Andreas Korp / Otto Sagmeister, meant that the cohesion in the Austrian consumer cooperative sector was exposed to problematic stress tests, especially in the years of the post-war economy .

From 1956 to 1972, Korp was also the first Vice President of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank .

literature

  • Emil J. Knotzer: The Austrian consumer cooperative movement in the 2nd Republic from 1945 to 1978 . In: Johann Brazda / Siegfried Rom (Ed.): 150 Years of Consumer Cooperatives in Austria Vienna 2006 . especially p. 286ff.
  • Andreas Korp: Stone on stone, 50 years of the wholesale purchasing company of Austrian consumer associations, a memorial book . Vienna 1955.
  • Florian Jagschitz / Siegfried Rom: Selected leaders of the Austrian consumer cooperatives in: Johann Brazda / Holger Blisse (Eds.): Contributions to critical cooperative research, Research Association for Cooperatives, Vienna 2018, pp. 308-310, ISBN 978-3-9502989-5- 6th

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personal data
SURNAME Korp, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager and politician (SPÖ)
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1983
Place of death Vienna