Ferdinand Kernmaier

Ferdinand Kernmaier (born April 22, 1884 in Glantschach near Sankt Veit an der Glan , † April 16, 1941 in Graz ) was an Austrian politician of the Landbund and the NSDAP .

Live and act

After attending elementary school and community school, Ferdinand Kernmeier was trained at the agricultural school. Kernmaier was a farmer and in 1905 took over his parents' business as an innkeeper.

He got involved early on in the cooperative system and in the German School Association in Südmark . In 1915 he volunteered on the Italian front and was a member of the Carinthian rifle group. He took an active part in the Carinthian defensive battle in 1918.

After the First World War he was from December 13, 1918 to March 7, 1934 representative of the Landbund in the Carinthian state parliament ( 12th , 13th , 14th and 15th legislative periods ). In November 1923 he became a regional councilor , initially as a cultural and later as a finance officer. From June 15, 1927 to January 22, 1931, he was a non-attached member of the Federal Council ( 3rd and 4th legislative period ).

After the state elections in 1930 he was elected as a compromise candidate for governor of Carinthia in 1931 and took office on January 22nd. On February 16, 1934, after the civil war, he was deposed by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss on the grounds that he had been elected with the votes of the Social Democrats.

Kernmaier became a supporter of the NSDAP as early as the early 1930s, he became a member of the illegal SA , in which he rose to the rank of Obersturmbannführer until his death . He was actively involved in the July coup of 1934. After the coup and again in 1936 he was imprisoned for several months. After the Anschluss in 1938, on June 15, 1938, he became Gauamtsleiter for Agricultural Policy at the Gauleitung Carinthia. In this function he took care of the integration of the Carinthian Chamber of Agriculture into the Reichsnährstand . From 1938 until his death in April 1941, Kernmeier was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag ( 4th electoral period ) as a member of the State of Austria . In November 1938 he became a gaurat . Kernmaier died in Graz on April 16, 1941.

literature

Anton Kreuzer: Carinthian. Biographical sketches . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1996, pp. 127–129. ISBN 3-85391-139-0

Web links

Ferdinand Kernmaier in the database of members of the Reichstag
Ferdinand Kernmaier on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

^ Matricula Online - Glantschach, Birth Book V, 1858–1885, page 116, entry no. 5, 2nd line
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
^ Ferdinand Kernmaier on the website of the Austrian Parliament
↑ ^a ^b Entry on Carinthia in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

personal data
SURNAME	Kernmaier, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kernmeier, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (Landbund, NSDAP), MdR, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glant chess
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1941
Place of death	Graz

[1] Matricula Online - Glantschach, Birth Book V, 1858–1885, page 116, entry no. 5, 2nd line

[Lille-2] A ^b ^c ^d Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

[3] Ferdinand Kernmaier on the website of the Austrian Parliament

[aeiou-4] Entry on Carinthia in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )