Albert Schöpf

Albert Schöpf (born April 29, 1906 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ; † October 5, 1980 in Linz , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

After attending primary school and the community school in Bludenz, Albert Schöpf graduated from the secondary school in Bregenz in 1926 . Then he enrolled at the University of Innsbruck , where he studied law and received his doctorate in 1931 . During his studies he was a member of the university association AV Austria Innsbruck . Schöpf worked in the private sector until 1934 before he became a civil servant in the city administration of Linz. In the corporate state, Albert Schöpf was head of the Fatherland Front for Urfahr and Linz, as well as regional leader of the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen for Upper Austria. During this time, a close friendship developed between him and Federal Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, whom he had already met at AV Austria Innsbruck.

During the Nazi era, Albert Schöpf was employed as a legally qualified civil servant at the housing company of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring , today's housing stock corporation (WAG) (which was separated from Voest after the war), which he headed after the liberation. As a former functionary of the Fatherland Front, he was considered unworthy of defense and was only drafted with the last contingent in the course of the "Volkssturm". During his mission shortly before the liberation, he was shot in the arm. In 1942 he was accused of high treason because he said "Heil Schuschnigg!" At a parade. would have called. The indictment was not prosecuted and the allegation withdrawn.

From November 30, 1947 to October 14, 1951 he was chairman of the ÖVP Upper Austria . In February 1948 Schöpf was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . After one and a half years as a Federal Councilor, he moved to the National Council in November 1949 as a member of the ÖVP , to which he was to belong for four years until March 1953. Then he was sworn in again as a member of the Federal Council, he remained so until March 1956. From 1945 to 1962 he headed the housing stock corporation (WAG). During this time, the settlements on Bindermichl, on Harter Plateau, on Keferfeld, on Spallerhof, on Hummelhof, on Ödhof, on Makartblock, in Kleinmünchen, on Froschberg in Steyr (Direktionsstrasse and Münichholz), in Kirchdorf, in Micheldorf, in Siernig- Letten, in Windischgarsten, in Spital am Pyhrn, in Traisen, in Eisenerz (Trofeng and Schloss Leopoldstein ), in Radmer, in Trofaiach, in Leoben-Seegraben, in Leoben-Massenberg, in Köflach, in Voitsberg, in Fohnsdorf, in Judenburg- Willingness arose in Hüttenberg and Judenburg-Muhrdorf. At the end of 1958, WAG owned total assets of 901.7 million schillings.

Albert-Schöpf-Straße bears his name because of his extraordinary services to the city of Linz.

Web links

• Albert Schöpf on the website of the Austrian Parliament