Eugen Schafhauser

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Eugen Schafhauser (* 1901 in Eschen ; † 1983 ibid) was a Liechtenstein legal agent and homeland researcher.

Life

education and profession

Schafhauser attended the agricultural school in Rheineck and then initially worked on his parents' farm. From 1927 to 1931 he was then assistant in the law firm of Ludwig Marxer . In 1931 Schafhauser became an independent legal agent and in April of the same year founded the trustee office “Dr.” together with the Austrian lawyer Helmuth Merlin. jur. Merlin & E. Schafhauser, Treuhand AG ”in Vaduz . In August 1931, the two then founded the presidential institute.

In addition to his work as a legal agent and increasingly after his retirement, Schafhauser also dealt with local research and published several books on this.

Political activities

Schafhauser was the driving force behind the establishment of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service and in September 1933 gathered future members that he considered suitable. On October 1, 1933, the Home Service was finally founded in Vaduz. Schafhauser became the first party president. At the end of 1933, however, he and a few other founding members left the Liechtenstein Homeland Service because, under the influence of other, more radical, members, it increasingly turned to National Socialist and anti-Semitic ideas.

Publications

  • Together with Helmuth M. Merlin: The Tax Legislation of the Principality of Liechtenstein as of February 1, 1932 (1932)
  • Liechtenstein's Eschnerberg in the shadow of five millennia (1959)
  • Historical questions and naming problems: Perspectives on the Eschnerberg place and field names (1964)
  • The Rhine and its traffic position: Gams-Haag-Bendern-Eschen (1971)
  • Problems of Rhaetian historical research: from a sub-Riet perspective (1975)
  • The Eschnerberg in Raetian times (1975)
  • Churrätische Pfalzen (1984)
  • Eschner building culture of past eras and years (1984)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings, Issues 105-106 (Bodenseegeschichtsverein, 1987)
  2. ↑ Hanspeter Lussy, Rodrigo López: Liechtenstein's Financial Relations at the Time of National Socialism: Study on behalf of the Independent Commission of Historians Liechtenstein Second World War, Volume 1
  3. ↑ Peter Geiger : Time of Crisis: Liechtenstein in the Thirties, 1928-1939, Volume 1 (2000)
  4. ↑ October 14, 1933 - Liechtenstein Homeland Service (PDF; 2.8 MB), The Month - The Magazine for Liechtenstein, Issue 10, October 2008
personal data
SURNAME Schafhauser, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein legal agent and homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Ash trees
DATE OF DEATH 1983
Place of death Ash trees