Egon Berger-Waldenegg

Egon Berger-Waldenegg (until 1919 Egon Freiherr Berger von Waldenegg ) (born February 14, 1880 in Vienna , † September 12, 1960 in Graz ) was an Austrian lawyer , politician and landowner .

Political career

From 1902 Berger-Waldenegg worked for the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy, between 1907 and 1918 he was employed in the Foreign Ministry (with the war interruption in 1914–1916). In 1929 he joined the Styrian Homeland Security . Two years later he took part in the Pfrimer Putsch and then joined the home defense movement of Ernst Rüdiger Starhembergs . In 1934, after the coup d'état and the establishment of the Austro-Fascist corporate state under Engelbert Dollfuß , he became Deputy Governor of Styria .

On July 10, 1934, he was appointed Minister of Justice , which he held until October 1935. On July 25, 1934, the Heimatschutz was mobilized across Austria against the National Socialists. From August 3, 1934 to May 14, 1936, Berger-Waldenegg was Foreign Minister in the government of Federal Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg and from 1936 to 1938 Austrian envoy in Rome . After the Anschluss he stayed in Italy and became an Italian citizen with his family under the name Egone Berger de Waldenegg . There he founded the Austria office in Rome in 1944 and returned to Austria as a private person in 1948.

On May 30, 1937 he was a founding member of the K.Ö.L. Ferdinandea zu Graz in KÖL .

literature

Egon Berger von Waldenegg, Heinrich Berger von Waldenegg: Biography in the mirror. The memoirs of two generations . Ed .: Heinrich Berger von Waldenegg, Georg Christoph Berger Waldenegg. Böhlau, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98876-0 .

Web links

Literature by and about Egon Berger-Waldenegg in the catalog of the German National Library
Egon Berger-Waldenegg on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Gregor Gatscher-Riedl (ed.): Faithful, the emperor and the country! 80 years of the academic union of Catholic-Austrian country teams - 75 years of resistance and struggle for an independent Austria. Self-published by the Academic Association, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503395-6-7 . Page 116.

predecessor	Office	successor
Anton Rintelen	Austrian ambassador to Italy 1936–1938	Adrian Rotter

personal data
SURNAME	Berger-Waldenegg, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berger von Waldenegg, Egon Freiherr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer, politician and landowner
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1960
Place of death	Graz

[1] Gregor Gatscher-Riedl (ed.): Faithful, the emperor and the country! 80 years of the academic union of Catholic-Austrian country teams - 75 years of resistance and struggle for an independent Austria. Self-published by the Academic Association, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-9503395-6-7 . Page 116.