Elmar Grabherr

Elmar Grabherr (1985)

Elmar Grabherr (born October 10, 1911 in Bludenz ; † June 10, 1987 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian lawyer and administrative officer.

Live and act

Elmar Grabherr was the son of a principal school principal. Attending high school in Feldkirch followed from 1930 the study of law and political science at the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna , which he in 1936 with the promotion of Dr. iur. completed. Then he entered the service of the Vorarlberg state government. After Vorarlberg became part of the Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg , Grabherr was transferred to the authority of the Reich governor, where he was in charge of personnel administration for the “Alpine Foreland Operations Zone” from 1943 to 1945 in Bolzano . Shortly before the end of the war, Grabherr returned to Vorarlberg in order to assume a leading position in the state administration, most recently from 1965 to 1976 as state office director . Grabherr's extra-professional interest was in the history of Vorarlberg. He promoted the (problematic and partly outdated) “History of Vorarlberg” by Benedikt Bilgeri and wrote a popular “Vorarlberg history” himself. The Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings made him an honorary member in 1968.

After Grabherr's death, a partly polemical account story arose about his involvement in National Socialism - he had joined the NSDAP as an official of the Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg and moved in the vicinity of Gauleiter Franz Hofer - and the repercussions of National Socialist convictions in his later thoughts and actions .

Since 1930 he was a member of the Catholic student union KaV Norica Vienna .

Fonts (selection)

Vorarlberg history. A popular representation . Bregenz 1986.

literature

Arnulf Benzer: Elmar Grabherr †. 1911-1987 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings . Volume 107, 1989, pp. V-VII. Digitized

Web links

Elmar Grabherr on the side of the Austrian Cartel Association

Individual evidence

↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 229. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .
^ Leo Haffner: Alemannorassismus. - New documents on the Elmar Grabherr case . In: Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Regional stories - national stories. Festschrift for Gerhard Wanner on his 65th birthday (= series of the Rheticus Society . Volume 44). Feldkirch 2004, pp. 137-157.

personal data
SURNAME	Lord of the grave, Elmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian lawyer and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bludenz
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1987
Place of death	Bregenz

[1] Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , Volume 136, 2018, pp. 1–302, here p. 229. ISBN 978-3-7995-1725-6 .

[2] Leo Haffner: Alemannorassismus. - New documents on the Elmar Grabherr case . In: Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Regional stories - national stories. Festschrift for Gerhard Wanner on his 65th birthday (= series of the Rheticus Society . Volume 44). Feldkirch 2004, pp. 137-157.