Alfred Rainer (politician)

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Alfred Rainer (born July 24, 1921 in Bad Goisern ; † May 22, 1966 in Graz ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

From 1953 until his death he was a member of the Styrian state parliament and from 1962 acted as state party secretary of the Styrian People's Party .

Life

Rainer grew up in the Salzkammergut and was the local Hitler Youth leader . He took part in the Second World War as a soldier and returned home severely damaged by the war (amputation of both legs on the thighs). Rainer was then able to study law and from 1947 worked as a lawyer for the Liezen district administration. In January 1950, Rainer was elected district party chairman of the ÖVP; from 1953 he represented the party in the state parliament, between 1955 and 1959 also in the municipal council of Liezen.

Rainer's central concern was to integrate the war generation shaped by the Nazi regime into democratic society and, if possible, to win them over to the People's Party. His motivation is to be found on the one hand in his personal experiences as a member of this generation, on the other hand in his Christian convictions and the political necessity, especially in the Ennstal , a former NSDAP stronghold. In 1951 he organized the Ennstaler Kreis as a discussion forum for the bourgeois camp with German nationalists and former National Socialists. From 1953 to 1955, the Pürgger Dichterwochen took place through his mediation , at which Nazi-polluted writers such as Bruno Brehm and Mirko Jelusich met younger authors such as Christine Lavant . In the mid-1950s, Rainer's saying “the right is no longer an enemy” became known.

As state party secretary, however, Rainer also approached the young, critically-minded generation of the 1960s and invited them to work in the Styrian People's Party.

The Rainerhof on the main square in Liezen is named after Alfred Rainer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Ableitinger: Politics in Styria. In: Alfred Ableitinger, Dieter A. Binder (Hrsg.): Steiermark. Overcoming the periphery (= history of the Austrian federal states since 1945. 7 = series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg. Vol. 6). Böhlau, Wien et al. 2002, ISBN 3-205-99217-2 , pp. 1–125, here p. 87.
  2. ↑ Ennstaler Kreis: History. ( Memento from January 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer : In: Programs and program discussions. In: Robert Kriechbaumer, Franz Schausberger (Ed.): People's Party. Claim and Reality. History of the ÖVP 1945–1995 (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Wien et al. 1995, ISBN 3-205-98458-7 , pp. 103-136, here p. 112.
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Welzig: The 68er. Careers of a Rebel Generation. Böhlau, Wien et al. 1985, ISBN 3-205-07284-7 , p. 123.
personal data
SURNAME Rainer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Goisern
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1966
Place of death Graz