Hans Schürff

Hans Schürff (born May 12, 1875 in Mödling , † March 27, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician.

Life

Memorial plaque donated by Schürff in 1925 for the opening of the Friedberg – Pinkafeld local railway with a poem written by Ottokar Kernstock

Family grave at the Mödlinger Friedhof

After attending secondary school in Freistadt in Upper Austria and the commercial academy at the University of Vienna, Hans Schürff studied law. He also worked as a freight forwarder and authorized signatory in his father's company.

From 1911 he was a member of the Reichsrat . He was also deputy chairman of the Federation of Germans in Lower Austria.

After the First World War , he was a member of the provisional state assembly from 1918 to 1919, a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament until 1920 and in the constituent national assembly from 1919 to 1920.

With a short interruption he was a member of the Greater German People's Party (GdP) to the Austrian National Council from 1920 to 1934 . He was mayor of his hometown Mödling in 1929/1930 and 1932.

From 1923 to 1929 he was also Federal Minister for Trade and Transport and Minister of Justice from 1930 to 1931.

Hans Schürff died on March 27, 1939 in Vienna. He was buried in the family grave in Mödling. In his honor, the Dr.-Hans-Schürff-Gasse in Mödling was named.

literature

• S. Petrin:  Schürff Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 295 f. (Direct links on p. 295 , p. 296 ).

Web links

• Hans Schürff on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Biographical data from Hans Schürff in the Biographical Manual of the Lower Austrian Parliament 1861–1921
• Entry on Hans Schürff in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• 90 years of constitution of the Provisional National Assembly (PDF file; 5.72 MB)