Alois Grauss

Alois Grauß - picture in the rococo hall of the old country house in Innsbruck .

Alois Grauss (born June 18, 1890 in Jenbach , Tyrol ; † November 30, 1957 in Rotholz near Jenbach ) was governor of the Austrian state of Tyrol from February 27, 1951 to November 29, 1957 . Before that he was the club chairman. He belonged to the ÖVP .

Life

The son of the Jenbacher scythe manufacturer Norbert Grauß and his wife Maria, b. Esterhammer, attended the advanced training and trade school in Mehrerau near Bregenz, the Rotholz agricultural school and the hotel management school in Innsbruck. In October 1911 he began the three-year military service with the 2nd Tyrolean Kaiserjägerregiment and stayed with this unit during the First World War . From spring 1916 to autumn 1918 he was deployed on the Southwest Front.

In 1923 he married Therese Dick (* 1897), the daughter of a farmer and landlord from Saalfelden . Together they ran the parental Esterhammer farm and the associated inn in Rotholz. In addition, Grauss worked as a functionary in the Tyrolean farmers' union and in politics. Until 1938 he was chairman of the district chamber of farmers in Schwaz and from 1936 to 1938 chairman of the Innsbruck farmers' savings bank. From 1929 to 1934 he sat as a member of the Tyrolean People's Party in the Tyrolean state parliament . He belonged to the moderate wing of the Bauernbund, which was critical of the Heimatwehr .

During the Nazi era, he was reprimanded as a former farmers' union functionary and imprisoned in the Reichenau camp in August 1944 after the assassination attempt on July 20 . His wife, battered by the events, died shortly before his release from prison in September 1944.

After the war he was deputy and managing chairman of the Tyrolean farmers' association. From November 1945 he sat again as an ÖVP mandate in the Tyrolean state parliament, otherwise he held back with political activities. In December 1948 he was elected federal chairman of the Tyrolean farmers' union. At the end of January 1951, Governor Alfons Weißgatterer died unexpectedly in office. Grauss was elected his successor by the state parliament at the end of February 1951 and was confirmed in office after the state elections in 1953 . His tenure was marked by the reconstruction after the Second World War. After the state elections in October 1957 , he decided not to run again as governor for health reasons, and Hans Tschiggfrey was elected as his successor .

Awards

• 1954: Large gold medal of honor with the star for services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 4, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1996
• Wilfried Beimrohr:  Grauss, Alois . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Grauß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Alois Grauss on the website of the Tyrolean Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)