Alfons Troll

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Alfons Troll (born November 9, 1889 in Schwarzach ; † November 30, 1964 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian state politician ( CS , VF , ÖVP ) from the state of Vorarlberg . From 1934 to 1938 he was state governor in the state government of Vorarlberg .

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Alfons Troll was born on November 9, 1889 as the son of a whetstone manufacturer in the Rhine Valley community of Schwarzach. After attending the Schwarzach elementary school, he was at the Stella Matutina Jesuit college in Feldkirch from 1901 to 1905 and then at the grammar school in Hall in Tirol , where he also graduated. From 1911 to 1914 he studied law at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna . On March 6, 1915, he received his doctorate in law in Innsbruck. From 1914 to 1918 Troll did his military service in the First World War and from 1918 onwards he became a judge at the district courts in Bregenz and Bezau . On July 25, 1917, he married Severina Babic in Laibach , with whom he had two children in 1918 and 1923.

On March 5, 1934, Alfons Troll was sworn in as the successor to Ferdinand Redler as governor in the first Vorarlberg provincial government formed according to the new laws of the Austrian corporate state. As such, he was responsible for hunting, fishing and road affairs. After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and the seizure of power by the National Socialists, Dr. Troll was forced to abdicate on March 12, 1938 and was briefly placed in protective custody.

During the Second World War , he subsequently worked as an agricultural worker and accountant, before he became head of the hunting department and chairman of the economic clean-up commission in the Vorarlberg state government after the end of the war from 1945 to 1948. In 1948 he returned to his regular legal profession as head of the Bregenz district court and head of the court. From 1951 until his retirement in 1955, he was also President of the Regional Court in Feldkirch. In 1955 he was also awarded the Great Silver Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria . Alfons Troll died on November 30, 1964 at the age of 75 in Vorarlberg's state capital Bregenz.

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