Franz Slama

Franz Slama (born September 19, 1885 in Brno , Moravia ; † August 21, 1938 in Wels , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian politician .

biography

Childhood and youth

Franz Slama was born the son of a construction clerk and grew up in Karlsbad and later in Rodaun . After attending primary school , he attended grammar schools in Bozen and Brixen and completed his law studies at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck . During his studies he joined the university singers Skalden zu Innsbruck .

In 1909 he became the lawyer admitted. Then Slama settled in Wels, where he worked as a clerk in a law firm .

In 1915 Slama became a member of the Kaiserjäger regiment and, with the help of his legal expertise, became a military lawyer in 1917 . In 1919 Slama returned to Wels and took over the management of his former law firm. One of his partners became Leopold Sturma , who became mayor of the Upper Austrian capital Linz during the time of National Socialism .

Political career

Slama was a supporter of German national ideologies and joined the Greater German People's Party . In 1927 he was elected vice-party chairman.

Slama held several political offices almost simultaneously. After he was a member of the Wels municipal council from 1924 to 1928 and a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag from 1925 to 1931 , he became Minister of Justice of the Republic of Austria in 1928 . He held this office until 1930.

Slama was a controversial politician who, during his tenure, increasingly brought Austrian law into line with German law. He also opened a law firm in Wels in 1931, whose clientele were illegal National Socialists. Slama, who sympathized with the Nazi state early on, mostly successfully defended those people. In 1938, shortly before his death, he became a member of the Academy for German Law in Berlin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niko Hofinger: “Our slogan is: Tyrol for the Tyroleans!” Anti-Semitism in Tyrol 1918–1938. In: Contemporary History. Vol. 21, Issue 3/4, 1994, pp. 83-108.

literature

• Harry Slapnicka :  Slama Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001-2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 347 f. (Direct links on p. 347 , p. 348 ).
• Niko Hofinger: "Our slogan is: Tyrol for the Tyroleans!" Anti-Semitism in Tyrol 1918–1938. In: Contemporary History . Vol. 21, Issue 3/4, 1994, pp. 83-108, ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Biography of Franz Slama on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Entry on Franz Slama in the Austria Forum  (in the Austrian Personal Lexicon of the First and Second Republic )
• Franz Slama on the website of the Austrian Parliament