Franz Klautzer

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Franz Klautzer , incorrect pseudonym : Manfred Jasser (born October 5, 1910 in Gradenberg, Köflach municipality ; † July 6, 1971 in Graz ) was an Austrian politician ( VdU ) and publisher. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the National Council .

Life

After finishing elementary and community school, Klautzer attended business school and high school.

He joined the Austrian Armed Forces in 1929 and became a professional soldier. Between 1938 and 1945 he served in the German Wehrmacht , most recently as a major.

After his release from captivity, Klautzer started his own business as a publisher and founded the Oststeirische Wochenpost in 1947 , which was sold to the publisher Leopold Stocker (1886–1950) in 1947 .

In October 1948, Klautzer was arrested as the owner, editor and publisher of the neo-Nazi weekly newspaper Alpenländischer Heimatruf as part of a court-ordered seizure . At the same time, proceedings were pending against the former Austrian Vice Chancellor Karl Hartleb (1886–1965) because of an article published in this periodical . In October 1948, by order of the High Commissioner, the production and distribution of the Alpine home call in the British occupation zone was forbidden.

From February 5, 1949, he issued the Alpenruf , after the official cessation of the alpine home call, it was now a party organ of the VdU Styria. Klautzer was also the regional chairman of the VdU Styria and member of the federal board of the VdU. He represented his party in the National Council from November 8, 1949 to March 18, 1953.

Klautzer was involved in the Krauland scandal because he accepted money and two wagons of rotary printing paper from Peter Krauland (1903–1985) and in return promised that his group would refrain from a vortex in parliament .

During the years as editor and publisher there was a presumption that Klautzer's real name was Manfred Jasser . The reason for this frequently recurring assumption is likely to have been the pseudonym Klausner used by Manfred Jasser (1909–1992), which acoustically resembles Klautzer , under which the former Nazi journalist wrote his nifty leading articles during the period of his professional ban .

literature

  • Julia Kopetzky: The "Krauland Affair". Causes and backgrounds of the first major corruption scandal of the Second Republic . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oststeirische Wochenpost. Non-partisan homeland sheet for the districts of Feldbach, Fürstenfeld, Hartberg and Weiz, as well as for the neighboring Burgenland . Date of publication: May 29, 1947 to September 25, 1948. Place of publication: Graz.
  2. ↑ Alpine home call. Independent weekly paper for constitutional domestic politics and progressive economy . Course of appearance: 1.1947.14 - 2.1948.40 proven. Alpine newspaper and magazine publisher, Graz.
  3. ↑ Neo-Nazi publishers arrested in Graz . In: Burgenland freedom . XVIII. Volume, No. 41/1948, p. 3, bottom right.
  4. ↑ The "Alpine home call" forbidden . In: Burgenland freedom . XVIII. Volume, No. 42/1948, p. 1, column 3, below.
  5. ↑ Alpine call. Independent weekly newspaper for local politics, culture and progressive economy . Josefa Weber-Ostwalden, Graz 1949–, ZDB -ID 2362464-4 .
  6. ↑ Siegfried Beer (ed.), Felix Schneider et al. (Employee); The "British" Styria. 1945–1955 . Research on the historical regional studies of Styria, Volume 38, ZDB -ID 501108-5 . Self-published by the Historical Commission for Styria, Graz 1995, ISBN 3-901251-09-X , p. 71.
  7. ↑ First fall of man “3. Camp ” . In: diepresse.com , April 27, 2012, accessed October 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ Media & Time. Communication in the past and present . Volume 8.1993, ISSN  0259-7446 . Association Working Group for Historical Communication Research Vienna (Ed.), Vienna 1993, p. 36.
  9. ↑ Alexander Haas: The forgotten peasant party. The Steirischer Landbund and its influence on Austrian politics 1918–1934 . Stocker, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7020-0885-3 , p. 323. (At the same time: Dissertation. University of Graz, Graz 1999, under the title: Alexander Haas: Der Steirische Landbund ).
  10. ↑ Lothar Höbelt : From the fourth party to the third force. The history of the VdU . Stocker, Graz (inter alia) 1999, ISBN 3-7020-0866-7 , p. 20.

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personal data
SURNAME Klautzer, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jasser, Manfred (inapplicable)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publisher and politician (VdU), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gradenberg, municipality of Köflach
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1971
Place of death Graz