Gottfried Ertl

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Gottfried Ertl (born November 8, 1897 in Allerheiligen im Mürz Valley , Styria ; † May 6, 1974 in Judenburg , Styria) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

Gottfried Ertl enjoyed a good education, whether his simple origins as the son of a farming family, attended elementary and community school and then enrolled at the Höhere Landwirtschaftliche Lehranstalt in Mödling , where he graduated . He then worked as a farmer from 1926 . According to historian Michael Wladika, on May 16, 1938, Ertl, who was then living in Thalheim, applied for admission to the NSDAP, which took place retroactively from May 1, 1938, which suggests that he was an "illegal alien" . He was assigned the membership number 6,244,177.

His political career only began after the Second World War . He became the district party chairman of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), for the meantime in murtal district risen Judenburg selected. In 1949 he entered the Styrian state parliament as a member of the ÖVP , to which he was to belong until 1957.

In April 1961 he was sworn in as a member of the Federal Council in Vienna . It stayed there for four years, until April 1965.

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Individual evidence

  1. Michael Wladika : On the representation of politicians and mandataries with a Nazi past in the Austrian People's Party 1945–1980. A group biographical study. Research project on behalf of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute. Vienna 2018, p. 149 ( PDF ).