Alfons Gorbach

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Alfons Gorbach (1965)

Alfons Gorbach (born September 2, 1898 in Imst , Tyrol ; † July 31, 1972 in Graz , Styria ) was an ÖVP politician and Austrian Federal Chancellor from 1961 to 1964 .

Life

Gorbach grew up in Wörschach in the Styrian Ennstal , where his father, a railway official who came from Fluh near Bregenz in Vorarlberg, had been transferred in 1900. He took part in the First World War as a one-year volunteer in the Carinthian Infantry Regiment No. 7 and lost a leg in October 1917 in the fighting near Flitsch ( Twelfth Isonzo Battle ). After he resigned from the military as a lieutenant in the reserve, he completed a law degree at the University of Graz , which he obtained with the academic degree Dr. jur. completed. He was already politically active in the first republic. From 1929 to 1932 he was a councilor in Graz and from 1937 to 1938 he was a regional councilor for Styria. From October 1933 to February 1938 he was regional leader of the Styrian Patriotic Front . After the “Anschluss” in 1938 , Gorbach first came (with the so-called Prominententransport ) to the Dachau concentration camp and in 1944 to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , where he remained imprisoned until the end of the war.

In the first elected National Council in 1945, he was the third President of the National Council, and a second time from 1956 to 1961. When most of those polluted by the National Socialists were allowed to vote again in the National Council election in 1949 , the two major parties vied for their votes. Gorbach won the former Nazi farmer leader Sepp Hainzl to call for the election of the ÖVP. After the ÖVP had achieved a meager result in the National Council elections of 1959 and the SPÖ had only become the second strongest party with only one mandate difference, a strategy discussion began in the party. The aging Julius Raab was no longer trusted to lead the ÖVP to success and so Gorbach was elected federal party chairman at the eighth extraordinary party congress. However, Raab initially remained Chancellor of the grand coalition . The Styrian governor, Josef Krainer , had prevailed to appoint the Styrian Gorbach as chairman. At the same time, Krainer claimed the office of regional party leader, which Gorbach had previously held, for himself and was thus able to further expand his power in Styria.

In 1961 Gorbach finally took over the office of Federal Chancellor from Julius Raab and led the ÖVP in the election campaign for the National Council elections in 1962 . In these, the ÖVP was able to increase slightly, but an absolute majority was again missed. Alfons Gorbach remained Federal Chancellor in another grand coalition. Shortly afterwards, however, the ÖVP began sawing on his chair and on September 20, 1963, Josef Klaus was elected as the new party chairman. On February 25, 1964, the Gorbach government resigned ; Klaus negotiated a new grand coalition and became Federal Chancellor. Gorbach returned in 1964 as a member of the National Council and retained his mandate until 1970. In the ÖVP he was made honorary chairman for life. In 1965 he was defeated by Franz Jonas in the federal presidential election .

Memberships

He was a founding member of the K.Ö.St.V. Babenberg Graz and member of the K.Ö.HV Carolina Graz in the ÖCV and the K.Ö.St.V. Liechtenstein Judenburg in the MKV and honorary member of the K.St.V. Waldmark Mürzzuschlag in the MKV.

Awards and honors

literature

  • Hanna Bleier-Bissinger: Federal Chancellor Dr. Alfons Gorbach and his time. Life and death of the post-war coalition. Edition Strahalm, Graz 1988, ISBN 3-900526-15-X .
  • Robert Kriechbaumer: Alfons Gorbach . in: Friedrich Weissensteiner, Erika Weinzierl (Ed.): The Austrian Federal Chancellors. Life and work . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-215-04669-5 , pp. 326–347

Web links

Commons : Alfons Gorbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Chorherr: A Brief History of the 2nd Republic. Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2005 ISBN 978-3-8000-7572-0 p. 51.
  2. ↑ Ingomar Pust : Small guide through the Western Julian Alps . Munich 1978, p. 120.
  3. ^ Biography of the members of the government ( memento of March 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 28, 2009.
  4. ↑ Irmgard Bärnthaler : The Fatherland Front. History and organization . Europa Verlag, Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-203-50379-7  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 206 , footnote 3 .
  5. ↑ Christa Zöchling : Nazi careers: The blind spots of the ÖVP. In: Profile . July 2, 2005, accessed September 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Die Presse: Armchair saws: A party leader against his will (January 30, 2010).
  7. ↑ Awards for functionaries of the Patriotic Front. In:  Der Wiener Tag , December 30, 1936, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day
  8. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  9. ↑ Josef Krainer Sr. Austrian Cartel Association, oecv.at, accessed on July 9, 2018.
  10. ↑ Dr. Alfons Gorbach graz.at, accessed on July 9, 2018.
  11. ^ Karl Maitz, Linde Jauk, phone calls July 9, 2018.
  12. ↑ Information City Survey Office Graz, phone call July 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ Gorbachgasse, Oberradlberg, 1983 tell St. Pöltner street names. books.google.at, accessed on July 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Gorbach, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council and Federal Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Imst , Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1972
Place of death Graz