Hans Prodinger

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Hans Prodinger (born November 14, 1887 in Villach , Carinthia ; † September 5, 1938 in Dachau concentration camp ) was an Austrian politician ( DNSAP / GDVP / VF ) and a commercial employee. He was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from 1919 to 1927 and a member of the National Council from 1928 to 1930 and from 1930 to 1934 .

education and profession

Prodinger graduated from elementary, civil and commercial school and between 1901 and 1904 learned the trade of businessman at the company Gehmacher in Salzburg. He then worked from 1904 to 1906 as a commercial clerk in Salzburg and then from 1906 to 1913 in Zurich , Germany , Innsbruck and Klagenfurt in this profession. In 1913 he became an employee of the German National Handlers Association (DHV) in Salzburg, and between 1914 and 1918 he did his military service in the First World War . After he was chairman of the Salzburg Soldiers' Council in 1918 , he worked between 1919 and 1928 as district chairman of the DHV in Salzburg. In 1928 he became head of the DHV in Austria. Prodinger was from 1934 to 1938 chairman of the trade union and from 1936 to 1938 chairman of the employee insurance company.

Politics and functions

Prodinger represented the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP) in the Salzburg state parliament, where he was sworn in as a member of the constituent state parliament on April 23, 1919 and was a member of the regular Salzburg state parliament from May 4, 1922. In 1922 he took over the office of regional party chairman of the German National Socialist Workers' Party in Salzburg, but switched to the Greater German People's Party in 1930. He resigned from the Salzburg state parliament on May 3, 1927 and was a member of the National Council in Vienna from November 7, 1928 to October 1, 1930 and from December 2, 1930 to April 30, 1934, in which he later became a member represented the Greater German People's Party.

He was also chairman of the German workers' union in Salzburg from 1926 to 1928, a member of the Salzburg City Council between 1919 and 1920 and chairman of the connecting committee of the Salzburg state parliament from 1920 to 1921. Furthermore, he worked from 1921 to 1928 as a councilor in the Chamber of Labor. In the authoritarian corporate state he was active in the state union , where in 1934 he became chairman of the trade union for trade employees . In 1936 he also became chairman of the salaried employee insurance institution and advisory board of the Vienna Patriotic Front.

After the National Socialists came to power , Prodinger was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in March 1938, where he died that same year. In 1960 a street in Salzburg was named after him, and at the top of the ramp of the Austrian parliament building there is a memorial plaque for the twelve parliamentarians who were murdered under the National Socialists.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Voithofer: Hans Progidger (1887-1938) . In: Franz Schausberger (ed.): History and identity: Festschrift for Robert Kriechbaumer on his 60th birthday . Böhlau, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-78187-5 , p. 155 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ Memorial plaque: Twelve parliamentarians were victims of Nazi terror. At parlament.gv.at .

literature

  • Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Prodinger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (DNSAP, GDVP), member of the state parliament, member of the national council
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1938
Place of death Dachau concentration camp