Gerd Stepantschitz

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Gerd Stepantschitz (born March 11, 1917 in Graz , Styria ; † May 3, 2006 ibid) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and doctor .

Life

Gerd Stepantschitz grew up in Graz, where he led the elementary school and the high school graduated and in 1935 graduated . He then studied law at the Karl Franzens University and obtained his doctorate in law in 1939. Shortly afterwards he began studying medicine at the same faculty. During the Second World War he served as a medic in the Wehrmacht at the front in the Soviet Union and in Greece . Stepantschitz was active in a resistance group. As a member of the K.Ö.HV Carolina GrazOn an April night in 1943 he was one of three men who felled the so-called “ Hitler Reich ”, a tree named after Adolf Hitler in Graz.

Before the end of the war, Stepantschitz obtained his second doctorate. As a doctor of medicine, he found work as an assistant doctor in the regional hospital in Graz in 1947 . In 1954 he became Primary of the IV Medical Department, and remained so until his retirement in 1982. He was last appointed Medical Director of the hospital in 1977.

His career as a politician led Stepantschitz in 1957 as a member of his party, the ÖVP, in the Styrian state parliament . He was initially a member of the state parliament until 1965. After a nine-year break, he returned to the state parliament in 1974 for the ÖVP. He remained so until 1983. From May 1983 he represented Styria as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . In December 1986 he resigned from the second Austrian parliamentary chamber.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Stepantschitz's curriculum vitae on the ÖCV website , accessed on 23 August 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Stepantschitz, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz , Styria
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2006
Place of death Graz , Styria