Fritz Polcar

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Fritz Polcar (born January 21, 1909 in Vienna ; † January 2, 1975 there ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Polcar learned the trade of technical businessman and worked as a representative in the insurance industry. In 1939 he was serving a political sentence for membership in the Hebra resistance group .

After the Second World War he became section chairman of the Austrian People's Party in Vienna / Hetzendorf, then district party chairman for Vienna / Meidling and in 1947 regional party chairman of the ÖVP Vienna. He held this post until 1958.

Polcar was Federal Finance Officer for the People's Party for a long time and, in the wake of the Krauland scandal, was first suspected of having accepted illegal party donations; however, the investigation has been discontinued. In November 1957, the so-called Transfines affair about Fritz Polcar broke out, which involved business in the East in connection with replacement deliveries to the Soviet Union and commissions incurred that would have served to finance the party. In this context, an honorary court of the ÖVP decided to only reprimand Polcar and some other representatives of the Viennese party involved in similar transactions. The central organ of the SPÖ, the Arbeiter-Zeitung, devoted a lot of space to this affair (especially from November 12th to 17th, 1957). But the daily newspapers Die Presse and Bild-Telegraf also dealt with the situation of the Vienna ÖVP and reported on dubious business dealings by some companies in which Polcar is said to have been involved. Ultimately, Fritz Polcar's close relationship with the steel mill owner Johann Haselgruber , who slipped into insolvency proceedings in 1958, was fatal. Polcar, who had been re-elected at the beginning of 1958, had to resign from his position as the Viennese regional party leader of the ÖVP on June 6, 1958 under pressure from Julius Raab.

However, the then ÖVP Federal Chancellor Julius Raab was also outraged by the media critical of Polcar and threatened the head of the press , Fritz Molden, with the financial resources being blocked by various banks if his newspaper did not immediately stop reporting.

During the so-called Vienna Newspaper War in 1958, Molden was in a dispute with the newspaper publisher Ludwig Polsterer . Fritz Polcar helped Polsterer financially with Hans Wollinger , member of the ÖVP , so that he could buy and publish the Bild-Telegraph in order to damage Molding's newspaper Bildtelegramm .

He was buried at the Hietzingen cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The great bribery affair surrounding the redemption deliveries . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 12, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ The corruption company - a people's party branch . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 13, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  3. ↑ The company "Grenzenlos" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 14, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ A hundred thousand schillings for the ÖVP . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 15, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ↑ An outstanding ÖVP member says: Mr. Polcar, step down! In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 16, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Another 250,000 schillings and Mr. Polcar . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna November 17, 1957, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ^ Friedrich Polcar grave site , Vienna, Hietzinger Friedhof, group 61, row 13.

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personal data
SURNAME Polcar, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1975
Place of death Vienna