Emanuel Weidenhoffer

Buresch's Cabinet with Federal President Wilhelm Miklas (1932)

Emanuel Weidenhoffer (born January 28, 1874 in Napajedla , Moravia , † October 18, 1939 in Graz , Styria ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Emanuel Weidenhoffer grew up in the Moravian town of Kroměříž , where he graduated from the German-language high school. He then studied law at the University of Vienna . After the court year , he began to work as a legal advisor at Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn . In 1912 he began to work as a journalist and thus advanced to the position of editor-in-chief of the Grazer Tagblatt .

In 1907 Weidenhoffer became a member of the Reichsrat , of which he was a member until 1911. From 1918 to 1923 he was a member of the Graz municipal council . In November 1923 he was elected to the National Council as a member of the Christian Social Party (CSP) , where he held his mandate until May 1934. One of his greatest political legacies was the introduction of motor vehicle liability insurance , for which he campaigned in 1929.

Federal Chancellor Otto Ender finally appointed Weidenhoffer as Finance Minister of the Republic of Austria in October 1931 . Weidenhoffer headed the ministry for around two and a half years until May 1934. As early as 1933, until 1934, he was President of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Credit Institute for Trade and Industry. After leaving the government, he took over the post of President of the “ Österreichische Credit-Anstalt Wiener Bankverein ” bank .

He died at the age of 65 in Graz.

literature

• Franz Schausberger : Last chance for democracy. The formation of the Dollfuss I government in May 1932. Break of the Austrian proportional democracy . Böhlau, Wien et al. 1993, ISBN 3-205-98050-6 , ( Studies on the history of Christian-social parties 1), p. 152.

Web links

• Emanuel Weidenhoffer on the website of the Austrian Parliament