Ernst Strachwitz

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Ernst Strachwitz (born December 22, 1919 in Wöbling near Graz , † July 13, 1998 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP , VdU ) and conservative publicist. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the National Council .

Life

The member of the old Count's Strachwitz family was an officer in the Second World War , most recently a major and mountain infantry regiment commander, took part in the battles around Narvik and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on November 28, 1944 . After the war he studied law and was a student representative of the bourgeois faction in the Student Union at the University of Graz. After leaving politics, he worked as a lawyer and represented a. a. Taras Borodajkewycz and Johann Haselgruber .

Strachwitz was founding president and later an honorary member of the Austrian Alpine Club in Styria.

Political activity

Strachwitz got involved in the “Relief and Care Center for Returnees” and founded the “Young Front” as a German national - conservative organization that was primarily intended to address former front soldiers. Strachwitz was nominated by the Styrian People's Party as a candidate for the National Council election in 1949 and elected via the state election list. According to Alfons Gorbach's reconciliation strategy, he was supposed to win German national circles and former National Socialists for the People's Party, which led to conflicts within the party. From 1948 to 1951 he was also chairman of the Styrian JVP . In 1950 he played a major role in the public controversy surrounding the KPÖ- affiliated Graz canon lawyer Heinrich Brandweiner .

Since Strachwitz, as chairman of the Junge Front, supported the independent candidacy of Burghard Breitner in the 1951 federal presidential election against the official ÖVP candidate Heinrich Gleißner , he and his supporters were expelled from the People's Party on June 9, 1951. With the support of Willfried Gredler , Gustav Canaval and Hans Steinacher , he then founded the campaign for political renewal , which entered into an electoral alliance with the Association of Independents . In the National Council election in 1953 , two mandates went to members of the "Aktion", but Strachwitz himself failed. The proposed merger of the two groups ultimately failed due to internal resistance in the VdU. The decline of the "Aktion" and the VdU followed, Strachwitz no longer took part in the establishment of the FPÖ due to personal reservations (among others with Jörg Kandutsch and Anton Reinthaller ).

In 1958 he founded the right-wing conservative magazine “Neue Order”, which is published today by Leopold Stocker Verlag . In the election in 1971 he ran together with Felix Ermacora at the invitation of Karl Schleinzer again as an independent candidate of the "national camp" for the ÖVP for the National Council. Political opponents accused Strachwitz in the election campaign of preparing a new home guard. Ultimately, Strachwitz was elected, but renounced his mandate.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter A. Binder / Heinz Wassermann. The Styrian People's Party or the return of the estates. Graz, 2008, p. 46
  2. ↑ Alfred Ableitinger / Bernd Beutl: 60 Years of the Styrian People's Party: Taking sides for Styria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Pp. 59-62@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.stvp.at  
  3. ↑ Alfred Ableitinger / Bernd Beutl: 60 Years of the Styrian People's Party: Taking sides for Styria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 447@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.stvp.at  
  4. ↑ Christian Fleck: The Brandweiner case. University during the Cold War. Graz, Publishing House for Social Criticism, 1987 ISBN 3900351813 , pp. 20ff.
  5. ↑ Lothar Höbelt: From the fourth party to the third force. The history of the VdU . Graz / Stuttgart, 1999. p. 152
  6. ↑ Lothar Höbelt: From the fourth party to the third force. The history of the VdU . Graz / Stuttgart, 1999. pp. 233f.
  7. ↑ New order: Founders
  8. ^ Dieter A. Binder / Heinz Wassermann. The Styrian People's Party or the return of the estates . Graz, 2008, p. 46
  9. ↑ Michael Siegert: Gamsbart fascism. Ernst Graf Strachwitz and the possible home guard. Vienna, 1971
  10. ↑ Schleinzer's experiment: Three candidates for the far right Die Presse , October 7, 2011

literature

  • Andreas Fraydenegg-Monzello: The many fronts of Ernst Graf Strachwitz. A political biography. Aresverlag, Graz, 2013 ISBN 978-3-902732-18-7
  • Franz Frank: In Memoriam Ernst Graf von Strachwitz . in: Neue Order 2/98, pp. 6–11.
  • Ernst Graf Strachwitz , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1958 from August 18, 1958, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

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personal data
SURNAME Strachwitz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP, VdU), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wöbling near Graz
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1998
Place of death Vienna