Franz Soronics

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Franz Soronics (born July 28, 1920 in Eisenstadt ; † May 25, 2009 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

Soronics was the son of a working class family. After primary and secondary school, he attended the two-year commercial school in Eisenstadt from 1935 to 1937. In 1938 he worked for the Burgenland provincial government. In 1939 he was drafted into service in the German armed forces and u. a. deployed on the Eastern Front. He was wounded off Stalingrad in 1943. At the end of the war he was a British prisoner of war , from which he returned to Austria in 1946. He returned to the national service. At the same time he passed the middle school exam at a high school. In 1948 he passed the state accounting examination.

In 1950, Soronics became town councilor of Eisenstadt as the “ ÖAAB man”. From 1956 to June 1959 he was a member of the Federal Council and then moved to the National Council , of which he was a member until 1971.

Under Federal Chancellor Alfons Gorbach , Soronics became State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1963 and, following the victory of the ÖVP in 1966, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Social Administration . From 1968 to 1970 he was Federal Minister of the Interior .

After the ÖVP lost the election in 1970, Soronics went back to the Burgenland state politics, where he first became a member of the Burgenland state government and in 1972 the deputy of governor Theodor Kery . He was known as a consensus politician and was on good terms with Kery. But he did not succeed in breaking the absolute majority of the SPÖ in Burgenland.

literature

  • Johann Kriegler: Political manual of Burgenland. Part II (1945-1995). Eisenstadt 1996 (Burgenland Research; 76), ISBN 3-901517-07-3 .
  • Franz Soronics , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/2009 from August 25, 2009, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Interior Minister Franz Soronics died on ORF Burgenland on May 26, 2009, accessed on May 26, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Soronics, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council, member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2009
Place of death Eisenstadt