Florian Graf (politician, 1890)

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Florian Graf (born January 27, 1890 in Lasselsdorf , Styria , † August 19, 1951 there ) was an Austrian politician of the Christian Social Party (CSP).

education and profession

After attending compulsory schools , he became a farmer .

Political functions

  • 1935–1938 and 1945–1951: Mayor of Lasselsdorf

Political mandates

Others

In the course of the National Socialist July coup , Graf and his servant were victims of a particularly brutal attack on July 25, 1934. On that day around 4 p.m. six National Socialists appeared at the farm of the former National Council of the Christian Social Party in Lasselsdorf to steal the rifles of the Austrian Homeland Security . Graf and his servant were seriously injured by gunshots in the upper extremities. It was only thanks to the pleading of his wife, who threatened to bleed to death, that the rebels refrained from taking him to Stainz " into arrest " and instead let him see a doctor.

Florian Graf was during the Second World War in prison .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matricula Online - Baptismal Register Gross St. Florian, Entry 12, 4th line
  2. Gerald M. Wolf: "Now we are the gentlemen ..." The NSDAP in the Deutschlandsberg district and the July Putsch 1934 (= Grazer Zeitgeschichtliche Studien, Volume 3) StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065- 4006-3 , p. 149, footnote 324.