Franz Koweindl

Franz Koweindl (born September 28, 1894 in Höch, parish St. Andrä, Leibnitz district, † August 14, 1933 in Schwarzach im Pongau ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and master blacksmith. From 1932 to 1933 he was a member of the Salzburg State Parliament and President of the State Parliament and Member of the State Parliament of the Salzburg State Parliament as well as State Councilor and Deputy State Parliament President.

education and profession

Koweindl first attended elementary school and then completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. During the First World War he did military service in the Austro-Hungarian army and after his return from the war he worked as a master blacksmith in Sodingberg in the Styrian district of Voitsberg from 1921 to 1926 . In 1926 he moved to Rauris, where he subsequently also worked as a master blacksmith. Koweindl remained active in the profession he had learned in Rauris until his early death.

Politics and functions

Koweindl joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party in 1931 and was involved in Rauris as a co-founder of the local NSDAP branch . Within the party, he held the function of the first NSDAP local group leader of Rauris and was also active as a Gau speaker. Koweindl ran in the state elections in 1932 on the 2nd list place of the NSDAP in Pinzgau and achieved in Rauris with more than 47% of the votes of all eligible voters, the best result of the NSDAP in the area of ​​Pinzgau and Pongau . The electoral success of his party in the agrarian Rauris was not only due to von Koweindl but also to the local doctor.

After the NSDAP had been elected, Koweindl was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on May 19, 1932 and was elected second deputy president of the state parliament on the same day. He died in office on June 30, 1933. His funeral on August 17, 1933 was subsequently caught in a show of force by the NSDAP. Despite the now pronounced party ban, the 700 mourners present raised their hands in the Hitler salute while singing the national anthem , the gendarmerie could only prevent the erection of a grave cross in the form of a swastika under threat of violence.

literature

• Laurenz Krisch: Break the Doll anklets. The development of National Socialism in Bad Gastein until 1938. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2003, ISBN 3-205-77129-X (At the same time: Salzburg, University, dissertation, 2002: collective biographical study on National Socialism in the 1930s in Bad Gastein. ).
• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .