Erwin Wascher

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Erwin Wascher (born May 6, 1904 in Laibach / Ljubljana ; † September 1, 1994 ) was an Austrian businessman and politician ( VdU ). From 1949 to 1950, Wascher was a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and a regional councilor in the Upper Austrian state government .

education and profession

After three years of the German elementary school in Trieste, Wascher attended the first three classes of the secondary school in Knittelfeld . After his father was released from Österreichischer Lloyd in 1919 , he moved to Linz to find a job with the DDSG , which he did not succeed in doing. But Wascher's family followed him and Erwin Wascher graduated from secondary school in 1923 with the Matura . From 1924, after a long illness, he studied history , geography and German at the University of Graz , and from the academic year 1925/26 at the University of Vienna . In 1929 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. Between 1931 and 1933 he trained as a librarian and archivist at the Austrian Institute for Historical Research in Vienna, and during these years also studied law at the University of Vienna. From 1934 to 1938 he lived as a historian on various research assignments or occasional jobs, after which he was employed by the Reichsnährstand Landesbauernschaft Donauland in Linz from 1938 to 1939 and was entrusted with peasant history, peasant law and genealogy . After the beginning of the Second World War he was assigned to the State Food Office in Linz, from which food security developed. In 1945, when the war ended, Wascher was dismissed without notice.

politics

During his student days, Wascher was involved as a student representative, running for the Völkisch social block and having been elected chairman and faction leader of this group. His group subsequently formed a coalition with the German, Catholic student body and Wascher was elected chairman of the chamber and spokesman for the student body at the university in the election of the student leadership.

On December 10, 1931, he joined the local branch in Vienna of the NSDAP , was considered resigned on July 31, 1932 due to non-payment of the membership fee and was re-accepted on January 1, 1941.

Between November 5, 1949 and June 1950, he was a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag, and between November 15, 1949 and June 8, 1950, he held the office of the Provincial Council for Nutrition in the Upper Austrian Provincial Government. Washer had to resign as a state councilor due to inaccuracies in his department. Although he initially refused to renounce his mandate in the state parliament, he finally left the state parliament.

Private

Erwin Wascher's father Stephan Wascher was born as the son of a Carinthian farmer and master blacksmith who worked for the railroad and as a boiler specialist for the Austrian Lloyd shipping company. Since his father always spent six months at a time on the high seas, his mother moved in with her parents in Zeltweg . On August 15, 1934, he married Hertha Reichel, daughter of Cäcilia (née Rosenauer) and Heinrich Reichel . The marriage has seven children.

literature

  • Harry Slapnicka: Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 12). Oöla, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-90031-347-4 , p. 302 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data taken from a digitized letter from the Gauschatzmeister Vienna on April 30, 1943
personal data
SURNAME Washer, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (VdU), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana / Ljubljana
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1994