Johann Ollinger

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Johann (Hans) Öllinger (born September 7, 1914 in Mühlbach am Hochkönig ; † June 15, 1990 in Klagenfurt ) was SS - Untersturmführer and briefly Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in the first purely social democratic cabinet from April 21 to May 22, 1970 the Republic of Austria.

Johann Öllinger (standing on the right) in the Kreisky I cabinet (1970)

Life

Öllinger studied agricultural economics at the Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , became a graduate engineer in 1937 and received his doctorate in 1942 with the subject of studies on the dairy industry in Gau Carinthia . From June 1933 to autumn 1937, also during the "prohibition period" after the failed July coup , he was a member of the SA, and most recently a storm leader . He participated in acts of terrorism against the Austro-fascist government . In 1937 he became a member of the SS and made it to Untersturmführer and member of the SS-Totenkopfverband . After the “Anschluss” in 1938 , Öllinger joined the South Mark region (Styria, Carinthia, including East Tyrol and South Burgenland) and in May 1938 became a member of the NSDAP .

In 1940, he said he left the SS and NSDAP and enlisted in the Wehrmacht to take part in the campaign in the west as an officer . He was rumored to have been expelled from the SS. As an alpinist, he was a member of two mountain divisions and, according to Simon Wiesenthal , took part in flamethrower commands , "fire brigades" that killed survivors after storming villages. In April 1946 he was released from French captivity on the grounds that there was nothing disadvantageous or incriminating except for his “membership of the SS”.

After the war he succeeded in a civil service career in the office of the Carinthian provincial government despite previous political stress . He made it up to the court council, did not join the SPÖ, but became a member of the BSA in 1960 .

Öllinger affair

Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky nominated the independent agricultural expert Öllinger as the first agriculture minister who was not a member of the ÖVP in 1970 for his cabinet . He had been suggested to Kreisky, who had not known him before, by the Carinthian Governor Hans Sima . The magazine Die Furche then published Öllinger's Nazi past, following advice from Wiesenthal. Due to heated discussions in the public, which were also held internationally, Öllinger resigned four weeks after his appointment. Kreisky had refused to dismiss Öllinger for political reasons, so Öllinger resigned from his office "voluntarily and only for reasons of illness". According to other sources, Öllinger actually suffered a heart attack.

His successor in office was Oskar Weihs , also a BSA and former NSDAP member.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Weiss, Krista Federspiel: Who? Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-218-00475-6 , p. 140.
    Dissertation in the union catalog of the Austrian library association
  2. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Neugebauer , Peter Schwarz: The will to walk upright. Disclosure of the role of the BSA in the social reintegration of former National Socialists. Czernin, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7076-0196-X , pp. 161f.
  3. ↑ Evelyn Adunka : The fourth community. The history of the Viennese Jews from 1945 to the present day. (= History of the Jews in Vienna , Volume 6) Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8257-0163-8 , p. 391.
    Christian Dickinger : The scandals of the republic. Haider, Proksch & Co. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8000-3820-X , p. 71.
  4. ↑ Doris Sottopietra , Maria Wirth: Former National Socialists in the SPÖ. A quantitative and qualitative study. In: Maria Mesner (ed.): Denazification between political claim, party competition and the cold war. The example of the SPÖ. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7029-0534-0 , pp. 266–334, here: p. 318.
  5. ^ Petra Mayrhofer: Hans Sima. A political life. Carinthian governor 1965–1974. Böhlau, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3205796596 , p. 67f.
  6. ↑ Kreisky's brown minister. The standard of December 19, 2005.
    Austria / Minister: So far back. Der Spiegel from May 25, 1970.
  7. ↑ Hans Weiss, Krista Federspiel: Who? Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-218-00475-6 , p. 140.
    Alexander Vodopivec: The playful Ballhausplatz. From black to red Austria. Molden, Vienna 1970, p. 130.
personal data
SURNAME Öllinger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ollinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian National Socialist and Minister of Agriculture
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlbach am Hochkönig
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1990
Place of death Klagenfurt