Friedrich Öhlinger

Friedrich Öhlinger (born August 23, 1878 in Andorf ; † October 8, 1957 in Vöcklabruck ) was an Austrian politician.

life and career

Friedrich Öhlinger was born on August 23, 1878 as the son of a senior teacher in the municipality of Andorf in the district of Schärding . After attending elementary school and high school in Linz , where he passed his Matura in 1897, Öhlinger began studying at the Medical Faculty of the University of Innsbruck . Here he joined the student association AV Austria Innsbruck on October 18, 1897 , where he carried the couleur name Fritz . His medical studies ended Öhlinger subsequently not, but moved to the Law and then to the Faculty of Arts, where he especially national economic attended and historical lectures. Since his type of study was considered improper, as he changed his fields of study and did not complete a degree, he was initially excluded from the AV Austria Innsbruck.

In 1906 he followed Richard Wollek , four years his senior , who had joined Austria Innsbruck three years earlier , to Vienna. In May 1906, Wollek, who was living in Prague at the time , had received an invitation from Albert Geßmann to accept the post of secretary of the Christian Social Reich Department and the newly founded Lower Austrian Farmers' Union . Öhlinger then supported Wollek in the Lower Austrian farmers' union before Geßmann sent him to Warnsdorf in 1909 and then to Trautenau in Bohemia . There he was supposed to organizationally strengthen the Christian Social Movement and the Christian Social Party itself. The structure of this was much weaker in Bohemia at that time than it was in Vienna and Lower Austria. After that, Öhlinger became party secretary for the area of ​​Eastern Bohemia, based in Trautenau, and then ran for the CS in the 1911 Reichsrat election in the Braunau-Land constituency, where he had no chance.

After the First World War broke out, Öhlinger, who was in his thirties, was called up for military service in 1914, where he belonged to the kk Landwehr Infantry Regiment "Linz" No. 2 . He was deployed on the Russian front and was in the service of the Imperial and Royal Landwehr throughout the First World War . His last rank was lieutenant in the reserve . Since he was still suffering from cholera while serving in the war , he had to struggle with the after-effects of this disease throughout his life. After more than four years in the service of the Imperial and Royal Landwehr, Öhlinger returned to Trautenau after the end of the war, where he served as district party secretary of the German Christian Social People's Party in the newly founded Czechoslovakia . Due to the position he had in the meantime, he was accepted back into Austria Innsbruck on October 18, 1920 , where he was given the status of old man from then on . In addition, he was chairman of the Teplitz-Schönau Philistine Circle from at least 1925 to 1931 .

In 1925, Öhlinger ran as a member of the elections to the Czechoslovak National Assembly and was also elected. Then he was a member of the National Assembly until 1935 and belonged to the so-called left activist wing of the Christian Socials, which was in favor of cooperation with the Czechs . In the elections for the Czechoslovak National Assembly in 1935, all parties lost very heavily in favor of the krypto National Socialist Sudeten German Party under the leadership of Konrad Henlein , whereupon Öhlinger was no longer given a mandate. At that time, he was considered the top candidate in the Königgrätz constituency . In addition to Emil Bobek , Josef Böhr , Wenzel Feierfeil , Karl Hilgenreiner , Johann Krumpe , Eugen Graf Ledebur-Wicheln , Hans Lokscha , Felix Luschka , Robert Mayr-Hartling , Robert Schälzky and others, he belonged to a not insignificant group of CV members who held political mandates in the first Czechoslovak Republic . They all belonged to the German Christian Social People's Party, which followed a cooperative course towards the Czechs and which at the time was called activist in contrast to nationalist.

After the Germans invaded the Sudetenland in September 1938, Öhlinger had to flee to Prague in the rest of the Czech Republic, which was then also smashed from March 15 to 16 . After the break-up, Öhlinger was temporarily imprisoned and spent the entire time of the Second World War in Prague. Even after that he lived in Prague for some time before he was expelled on December 7, 1948 and returned to his home in Upper Austria. He spent his old age in modest circumstances in Vöcklabruck. In the last years of his life he was still involved in the Upper Austrian Agricultural and Forestry Workers' Association, for which Hans Huber had become state secretary after the end of the Second World War, as well as for the expellees . On October 8, 1957, Öhlinger died at the age of 79 in Vöcklabruck and was buried there. At his funeral, the then governor Heinrich Gleißner , also a CV member, spoke a few words of farewell at the open grave.

literature

• Austrier-Blätter, No. 26, Innsbruck 1957, p. 314f.

• Jaroslav Šebek : Sudeten German Catholicism on the Way of the Cross: Political Activities of the Sudeten German Catholics in the First Czechoslovak Republic in the 1930s (= Church and Society in the Carpathian-Danube Region, Volume 2) . 1st edition. Lit Verlag , Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-8258-9433-7 , p. 175 and 182 .
• Edited by Herbert Fritz and Peter Krause: Wear colors, show your colors. 1938-1945. Catholic Corporates in Resistance and Persecution. significantly improved edition. Austrian Association for Student History , Vienna 2013, p. 447 f .

Web links

• Friedrich Öhlinger on the official website of the Austrian Cartel Association
• Friedrich Öhlinger on the official website of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Czech Republic