Albert Hochleitner (politician)

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Albert Hochleitner (born January 30, 1893 in Blühnbach , Salzburg , † May 8, 1964 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician.

Education, job and private life

He attended elementary school in Rauris and then went to high school in Salzburg . He graduated from high school in 1914. From 1919 to 1923 he attended the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . Albert Hochleitner became Chamber Office Director of the Salzburg Chamber of Agriculture and Food and worked in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry from 1931. For the war years from 1939 to 1945, the biography published on the Parliament's server shows an unspecified activity in the private sector.

In 1954 he was invested in Linz in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . Since 1914 he was a member of the Catholic student association KÖStV Austria Vienna in the ÖCV .

Political career

Albert Hochleitner belonged to the ÖVP after the war . December 12, 1945 to December 4, 1947 Albert Hochleitner was Governor of Salzburg in the second republic. He resigned because of alleged irregularities in a citizenship ceremony. The state parliament subsequently initiated an investigation, which remained inconclusive and Hochleitner later completely rehabilitated. Until November 17, 1948 he was still a member of the Federal Council .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Baptismal Register - TFBVIII | Throw | Salzburg, rk. Diocese | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved November 13, 2018 .
  2. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)