Anton Konrad Zippe

Anton Konrad Zippe (born January 13, 1889 in Krombach , Zittauer Gebirge , Bohemia ; † August 10, 1964 in Seeboden am Millstätter See) was an Austrian educator, politician, artist and father of Gernot Zippe .

Life

After attending the elementary and community school in Krompach , Anton Zippe graduated from the technical school for weaving and drawing in Varnsdorf and then worked in a studio in Zittau . From 1907 to 1911 he was a student at the Vienna Art School and an extraordinary student at the University of Vienna.

After he had passed the supplementary high school diploma and the teaching examination in 1913, Zippe was accepted as an assistant teacher at the Arbeitsrealschule Laa an der Thaya , where he taught freehand drawing. After the outbreak of World War I , he also devoted himself to the pre-military education of high school youth in school by giving fencing lessons and also taking care of the student aid corps. At the same time, Zippe was involved in the German Gymnastics Club, which he headed interim between 1915 and 1916 and as chairman from 1918 to 1928.

With the end of the First World War, Anton Konrad Zippe began to express himself politically. As a member of the Greater German People's Party , between 1918 and 1928 he moved into the Laa municipal council and from May 20, 1927 to May 21, 1932 as a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament . Politically, Zippe represented a German national , anti-social-democratic, anti-Semitic and later anti-democratic course, which is also shown in his signing of the so-called Korneuburg oath on May 18, 1930.

When the Greater German People's Party was no longer elected to parliament in 1932, Zippe drew the consequences and became a member of the growing NSDAP . Between 1934 and 1938 he was a party member of the NSDAP, which was illegal after the attempted coup by the Nazis against the Dollfuss regime, and was entrusted with the management of the Laa an der Thaya high school in March 1938 as part of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany . Zippe worked as a district propaganda leader for the NSDAP Mistelbach , founded the Laa Municipal Business School and built a middle school (high school for boys) in Warnsdorf between 1940 and 1945.

In 1945 he fled to East Germany as part of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , where he worked as a painter until 1950. From 1950 until his death in 1964 he worked as a painter.

During his studies in 1907 he became a member of the student fraternity Markomannia Vienna . He belonged to the student fraternity Nibelungia Vienna and in 1953 became an honorary member of the Aldania Vienna fraternity .

literature

• Association for the promotion of the renewal of Laa (ed.): Anton Konrad Zippe exhibition in the old town hall of Laa from 4th to 12th May 1991. Exhibition guide. Laa 1991.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 438-439.

Web links

• Biographical data from Anton Konrad Zippe in the Biographical Handbook of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921