Friedrich Niederl

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Friedrich Niederl (born July 15, 1920 in Treglwang , Styria , † December 19, 2012 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), governor of Styria and lawyer .

Life

Niederl was born in Treglwang as the illegitimate son of a farm worker. In his earliest childhood, his mother moved with him to the municipality of Lassing , where he spent his childhood and youth. After working on the land in his home district of Liezen , he moved to Graz in 1936 and attended evening school at the Graz Commercial Academy. In 1940 he was drafted into the military, became an American prisoner of war and was released in 1945. From 1948 to 1951 he studied law at the Karl Franzens University in Graz . During his studies he was repeatedly a guest at the Catholic University Association Carolina in the Austrian Cartell Association, but as a working student he was unable to join. His interest in Catholic color students remained, however, and was visibly confirmed in 1974 when he became an honorary member of the Babenberg Graz Catholic Student Union in the ÖCV .

After regional political and professional activity in Liezen, Niederl became district captain of Feldbach in 1960 . In 1965, under the government of Josef Krainer senior, he was appointed to the regional council (agriculture and housing department). After Governor Krainer died on November 28, 1971 during a hunt, a handwritten note was found in his wallet:

"Dr. Niederl is to become governor. He is the most reliable and the best. With him you can keep Styria politically. "

On December 10, 1971 Niederl was elected by the Styrian Landtag as the fourth Styrian Governor of the Second Republic. As the top candidate of the Styrian People's Party , he ran in two state elections in succession (1974 and 1978); both times the People's Party won an absolute majority. In 1980 Niederl resigned as governor and became chairman of the Raiffeisen Central Bank of Styria. He was succeeded as governor by Josef Krainer junior - the son of his predecessor.

As part of the process to insurance fraud in the states insurance of Kurt Ruso Friedrich Neth was sentenced in 1988 for embezzlement to two years of conditional imprisonment. He was buried at the Mauer cemetery.

Awards (excerpt)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Niederl died
  2. ↑ Hans Werner Scheidl: The Monarchs of the Second Republic . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2002 ISBN 978-3-8000-3847-3 p. 76
  3. ^ Friedrich Niederl grave site , Vienna, Mauer cemetery, group 15, row 2, no.8.
  4. ↑ Hartmannsdorf Market
personal data
SURNAME Niederl, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), Governor of Styria (1971–1980)
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Treglwang , Styria
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 2012
Place of death Vienna