Alexander Hryntchak

Alexander Hryntschak (born March 3, 1891 in Vienna ; † March 17, 1974 there ) was an Austrian politician ( CSP ).

Life

Alexander Hryntschak studied after 1910 filed Matura Law and received his doctorate in 1917. After holding various positions in the private sector he was most recently in the 1930s clerk at a law firm in Vienna.

On January 15, 1929, he entered the National Council as a member of the Christian Social Party , to which he was to belong until May 2, 1934. From 1934 to 1938 he was director of the Wiener Symphoniker , an office which he had to give up after the annexation of Austria . He then became director of the Fross-Büssing company , a company that produced automobiles.

Hryntschak was arrested by the Gestapo for the first time on March 13, 1938 , but was released on June 15 of the same year. After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 and the associated wave of arrests, Hryntschak was arrested again on August 23, 1944. But because of a lack of evidence and because he had no connections to the group around Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , Hryntschak was released on September 2, 1944.

In 1946 Hryntschak became the managing director of the Association of Austrian Industrialists, today's Federation of Industrialists . He stayed that way until 1949. He also worked for a few years as a freelance economic consultant .

In 1951 Hryntschak became president of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.

Web links

• Alexander Hryntschak on the website of the Austrian Parliament