Georg Zimmermann (politician, 1897)

Georg Zimmermann (born November 18, 1897 in Capo d'Istria , Margraviate of Istria , Austria-Hungary , † December 17, 1958 in Vienna , until 1919 Knight von Zimmermann ) was an Austrian financial expert and non-party politician .

Zimmermann came from a family of civil servants, and his grandfather and father had been senior tax officials. He grew up in Trieste, where his father Otto Ritter von Zimmermann was Vice President of the Regional Financial Directorate, and studied law at the University of Vienna from 1906 to 1912. He also began his professional career in the financial administration in Trieste. From 1915 to 1918 Zimmermann was an officer in the war, most recently on the staff of Field Marshal Svetozar Boroević von Bojna .

Between 1918 and 1938 he was a civil servant at the Ministry of Finance in Vienna, first in the budget section, and later as deputy head of the presidency with the rank of ministerial councilor. After the Anschluss in 1938, he was forced into retirement due to the law to restore the civil service with a reduced pension.

After the Second World War, on April 27, 1945, Georg Zimmermann was accepted as a non-party expert on the proposal of the ÖVP in the Provisional State Government of Renner 1945 , which was formed on the same day . As head of the Ministry of Finance, like all ministers, he was called State Secretary.

On 20 December 1945 he was due to set back in place by the newly elected National Council on Dec. 19, 1945 Federal Constitutional Law and due to the election of Karl Renner for the first President of the Second Republic from this proposal by Chancellor Leopold Figl (ÖVP ) appointed Federal Minister of Finance (see Federal Government Figl I ).

He remained this until the appointment of the Federal Government Figl II , to which he was no longer a member, on November 8, 1949. In 1950 he was appointed President of the Austrian Central Statistical Office (today: Statistics Austria ). Until his death, he remained a member of the supervisory board of Creditanstalt-Bankverein , the largest nationalized bank at the time.

Georg Zimmermann was buried in the Hietzinger Friedhof in Vienna 13th.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Fritz: Progress and barbarism. Austria's financial administration in the Third Reich . Lit Verlag, Vienna-Münster 2011 ISBN 978-3-643-50247-6 p. 79ff.

Web links

• Georg Zimmermann on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Georg Zimmermann in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )