Emil van Tongel
Emil van Tongel (born October 27, 1902 in Leitmeritz , Austria-Hungary , † May 22, 1981 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician . He belonged to the Sudeten German minority.
Life
Emil van Tongel came to Vienna at the age of eight in 1910 with his parents, the pharmacist Emil van Tongel and his wife Marie. Here he visited after the elementary school a Grammar school in the district of Margareten and attained 1920 the Matura . He then studied law at the University of Vienna until his doctorate in 1926 , and then went on to study pharmacy . In 1928 he obtained his master's degree here . He then began to work as a pharmacist in Vienna and took over the well-known Guardian Angel pharmacy as his father's successor. Van Tongel was politically active in the Greater German People's Party and became its regional party chairman . He was still in this position when he converted to the Austrian NSDAP in the summer of 1932 .
In 1939 van Tongel became a soldier in the Second World War and in 1945 was taken prisoner by the Allies for two years.
After the war, Emil van Tongel founded the Association of Independents (VdU) together with Viktor Reimann and Herbert Alois Kraus , from which the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) emerged in 1956 . In June 1959 van Tongel was elected to the National Council as a member of the FPÖ ; he held his mandate until March 1970. Within the FPÖ, van Tongel acted as finance and press officer; he also took care of the party's ideological orientation. In 1964 he was elected club chairman of his party, an office which van Tongel held until 1970. Van Tongel also worked as an employee of the Neue Front publishing house and was vice-president of the Austrian Black Cross .
literature
- Emil van Tongel , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/1981 of October 26, 1981, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Emil van Tongel on the website of the Austrian Parliament
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer : The great stories of politics. Political culture and parties in Austria from the turn of the century to 1945 . Vienna / Cologne / Weimar: Böhlau, 2001, p. 475
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tongel, Emil van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (GDVP, NSDAP, VdU, FPÖ), member of the National Council |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leitmeritz , Kingdom of Bohemia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1981 |
| Place of death | Vienna |