Hans Grossauer

Hans Großauer (actually Johann Großauer , born May 15, 1893 in Kindberg , Styria , † December 4, 1967 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Carinthia ) was an Austrian politician ( Christian Social Party , Fatherland Front , Austrian People's Party ).

Life

The son of an industrial worker, Hans Großauer, initially only had a simple education and, after attending elementary and vocational school, learned the trade of hammer and tool smith. In 1914 he was drafted into military service and became a prisoner of war. He did not return until 1920 and was no longer able to practice the profession he had learned due to a war injury. He had himself retrained for office work, became an employee of the farmers' health insurance company and later a civil servant for the state of Carinthia, where he worked as an employee of the social security system from 1922 to 1938.

His political career began in 1923 when he moved into the Carinthian state parliament as a Christian social member . He was there until 1927. After a three-year break, he was sworn in again as a member of the state parliament in 1930. In March 1934, shortly before he left again, Großauer was elected the second president of the state parliament.

In August 1934 Großauer went to Vienna , where he was sworn in in the cabinet of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss as State Secretary under Minister Odo Neustädter-Stürmer in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration . It was until October 1935. During the Austro-Fascist period from 1934 to 1938, Großauer was a member of both the State Council and the Bundestag . In 1936 he was a member of the short-lived leadership council of the Fatherland Front. After the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938, Großauer had to serve political prison sentences several times. In 1941 he was made an accountant.

After the war , Hans Großauer was one of the founding members of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) as well as of the Austrian Workers' Union (ÖAAB) in Carinthia, which he led until 1952.

In December 1945 he was sworn in as an ÖVP member of the Federal Council. He was a member of the second Austrian parliamentary chamber for eight years, until March 1953. In the second half of 1948, Großauer served as the second President of the Federal Council.

literature

• Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 94 f.

Web links

• Hans Großauer on the website of the Austrian Parliament