Hans Ferlitsch (politician, 1890)

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Hans Ferlitsch (born December 7, 1890 in Vorderberg im Gailtal , Carinthia ; † September 11, 1968 ibid) was an Austrian politician of the Landbund (First Republic) and the ÖVP (Second Republic).

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Hans Ferlitsch was born on his parents' farm in Vorderberg and grew up there. He attended the agricultural school in Klagenfurt , and then did his military service with Field Cannon Regiment No. 9, also in Klagenfurt. During the First World War he was deployed in Galicia and on the Italian front . After the end of the war, he became mayor of his home community and peasant district chairman. From 1925 Ferlitsch was in his home district Hermagor in the state culture council, which was transferred to the new chamber of agriculture in 1932 . After the state elections in 1927, he entered the 14th Carinthian state parliament for the federal state, and from 1934 he was a state councilor in the Hülgerth state government , but left politics in 1937.

After the end of the Second World War, Ferlitsch was one of the founders of the re-established Carinthian Farmers' Union , which he chaired from 1945 to 1960, and the Carinthian People's Party. From June 6, 1945 until his age-related retirement from politics in 1960, he was a member of the state council . At the beginning its main task was to supply the population with food. Later, his priorities were the development of rural areas, modernization of agriculture and the development of the agricultural school system.

He died on September 11, 1968.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Kreuzer : Carinthian. Biographical sketches. 20th century. Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-85391-128-5 , pp. 134-136.
  2. Helmut Rumpler (Ed.): Carinthia. From the German border to the Austrian federal state (= history of the Austrian federal states since 1945. 2 = series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr.-Wilfried-Haslauer-Bibliothek, Salzburg. 6, 2). Böhlau, Wien et al. 1998, ISBN 3-205-98792-6 , p. 232, ( online , accessed April 7, 2015).
  3. a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)