Felix Hurdes

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Felix Hurdes (born August 9, 1901 in Bruneck , Tyrol , Austria-Hungary ; † October 12, 1974 in Vienna ) was a lawyer, politician and co-founder of the ÖVP . Hurdes was President of the National Council from 1953 to 1959 .

Life

Hurdes studied law and received his doctorate in law in 1925. Court and lawyer training followed in Vienna and Klagenfurt. In 1935 he opened his own law firm in Klagenfurt. Hurdes, coming from the Catholic youth movement , then engaged in political Catholicism, was first a local councilor in Klagenfurt (1935–1936) and chairman of the Carinthian press association in the 1930s . In 1936, Hurdes became State Councilor for Schools and Buildings.

During the “Anschluss” of Austria , Hurdes was arrested by the National Socialists on March 11, 1938 and deported to Dachau concentration camp in May 1938 . After his release in May 1939, he became legal counsel for a construction company in Vienna. From 1940 he was active in trade union resistance circles and had contacts with the Maier-Messner group through Heinrich Maier . At that time he also discussed with like-minded friends the possibility of continuing the legacy of the Christian Social Party and worked on a concept for a collective party known as the People's Party , which should dissolve the opposition between capital and labor through " solidarism ". In 1944 he was imprisoned again, this time in Mauthausen . From here he was transferred to the Vienna Regional Court on January 18, 1945, where the planned trial against him was no longer possible; he was released on April 6th before Vienna was liberated.

Honorary grave of Felix Hurdes in the Vienna Central Cemetery

After the end of the Second World War , Hurdes was one of the co-founders of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and its general secretary from 1945 to 1951. During this time he took part in the first federal party conference of the CDU in Germany in Goslar (1950). From 1945 to 1952 he was Federal Minister for Education . During his time there was a decree of the Ministry of Education, according to which the school report did not have to contain German but the language of instruction so that it does not remind of the German Empire. This led to the Austrian colloquial language being referred to as Hurdestan . However, recent research has shown that this decision most likely goes back to a decree by his predecessor Ernst Fischer and that Felix Hurdes was only portrayed as responsible in the public discussion and was heavily criticized for it, especially by German national circles. Both politicians, both the communist Fischer and the Christian Social Hurdes, however, against the background of their own experiences in the war, rejected everything German and tried to promote an independent cultural and linguistic identity for Austria . In 1951 the Austrian dictionary was published for the first time and since then has defined the Austrian standard variety of the German language in official usage .

Hurdes was a member of the National Council from 1945 to 1966 and first President of the National Council from 1953 to 1959 . A TV program in 1958 by the cabaret artists Helmut Qualtinger and Gerhard Bronner with the number Der Papa wird es sein , contributed to Hurdes' resignation from this position in 1959. It alludes to the fact that Hurdes had a serious car accident of his son swept under the carpet. After Hurdes was elected chairman of the ÖVP parliamentary club on February 14, 1962 , he remained in this office until the 1966 National Council election .

Hurdes was active as Vice President of the Association of Christian Democratic People's Parties ( Nouvelles Equipes Internationales ). He was also a member of the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV).

He rests in an honorary grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery (15E-16-8).

Honors

Fonts

  • Our father - thoughts from the concentration camp , Herder 1950

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian Biographical Sketches. 14th - 20th century . Kärntner Druck und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1999, ISBN 3-85391-166-8 , p. 155 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Walter Hämmerle : Felix Hurdes. The last of the "Generation 1945". (No longer available online.) In: Wiener Zeitung . Archived from the original on December 24, 2001 ; Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Siegfried Beer : "Arcel / Cassia / Redbird": The Maier-Messner resistance group and the American war secret service OSS in Bern, Istanbul and Algiers 1943/44 . In: DÖW (Hrsg.): Yearbook 1993: Focus on resistance . Vienna 1993, p. 77 .
  4. ↑ Josef Achleitner: Felix Hurdes: From the founding of the party to "The papa will fix it". In: Upper Austrian news . June 6, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Minutes of the first party congress of the CDU in Germany, 1950. P. 1 ( PDF )
  6. ^ Fritz Molden , The Austrians or the Power of History , Vienna 1986, p. 294
  7. ↑ Johann Georg Reißmüller : lessons in Hurdestanisch. (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 11, 2004, archived from the original on October 10, 2008 ; accessed on May 13, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Falter : Oliver Rathkolb: The paradoxical republic of Austria 1945 to 2005  ( 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. (Review by Armin Thurnher )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.falter.at  
  9. ↑ Grand Master of Cabaret is dead . Obituary for Gerhard Bronner. In: The Standard . 20./21. January 2007.
  10. ↑ a b Austrian Cartel Association: Felix Hurdes. resume
  11. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, December 13, 1957, sheet 2454
  12. ^ The winners of the Karl Renner Foundation . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 14, 1957, p. 2 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  13. ↑ Vienna City Hall Correspondence, January 11, 1958, page 38 .
  14. ↑ The presentation of the Karl Renner Prizes . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 12, 1958, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  15. ^ Helix Hurdes (awards) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

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personal data
SURNAME Hurdes, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician, co-founder of the ÖVP
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruneck , South Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1974
Place of death Vienna