Heinrich Gleißner

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Heinrich Gleißner (born January 26, 1893 in Linz , † January 18, 1984 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( ÖVP ) and governor of Upper Austria. He is commonly referred to as the pioneer of modern Upper Austria. In the post-war period he made a significant contribution to the reconstruction of the country, from housing construction to roads and highways to schools and hospitals.

Life

After graduating from the humanistic grammar school on Spittelwiese in Linz, which he passed with distinction in 1912, Heinrich Gleißner studied law at the Charles University in Prague . In 1914 he became a soldier in Infantry Regiment No. 3 of the Tyrolean Kaiserschützen . After a year as a prisoner of war, he continued his law studies in Innsbruck in 1919 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . He was a member of the Catholic Pennal Association Amelungia Linz (which was only active from 1907 to 1915), the K.Ö.St.V. Nibelungia 1901 to Linz in the MKV and the KDSt.V. Saxo-Bavaria Prague in the CV , today as KaV in Vienna in the ÖCV , the AV Raeto-Bavaria Innsbruck , the KÖHV Franco-Bavaria Vienna and the AV Austria Innsbruck .

St. Barbara-Friedhof Linz - grave of Heinrich Gleißner

Heinrich Gleißner began his professional career in the office of the Upper Austrian provincial government. In 1930 he became director of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Agriculture , and from 1933 to 1934 he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. From October 1933 to March 1938 he was regional leader of the Fatherland Front in Upper Austria. From 1934 to 1938 he was Governor of Upper Austria. After the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich , he was deposed. He was arrested on March 15, 1938. He was imprisoned several times between 1939 and 1940 in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. This was followed by a forced residency in Berlin .

After the restoration of the Republic of Austria , Gleißner was again Governor of Upper Austria from 1945 to 1971. In 1951 he was the candidate of the ÖVP in the election of the Federal President , but surprisingly lost it to Theodor Körner ( SPÖ ). He made a decisive contribution to the economic, political and cultural reconstruction of Upper Austria after the Second World War and the occupation. He significantly promoted the change in the country from an agricultural to an industrial location. On May 2, 1971, he resigned from his post as governor, making him the Austrian governor with the longest term in office, ahead of Erwin Pröll .

Heinrich Gleißner died in 1984 and was buried at the St. Barbara cemetery in Linz.

souvenir

The Heinrich Gleißner Prize for poetry and prose of the Heinrich Gleißner House in Linz is associated with his name .

The Heinrich-Gleißner-Haus in Linz, Donaulände 7, on the right bank of the Danube about 100 m above the Nibelungen Bridge , has housed the state party headquarters of the ÖVP since 1952. Built in 1939 as a waterway office , after 1945 "Raiffeisenhof" of the farmers' union, from 1984 owned by the ÖVP.

A monument is located in the Dornach Auhof district of Linz: the bust on a concrete base is a work by Franz Strahammer from 1991.

  • Heinrich Gleißner monument in Linz, bust of Franz Strahammer

  • The Heinrich-Gleißner-Haus in Linz , Obere Donaulände 7–9

Fonts

  • The rebirth of Austria from the countries in 1945. In: Andreas Khol u. a. (Ed.): About parliament and party. Alfred Maleta on his 70th birthday , Graz a. a .: Styria 1976 (series of studies by the political academy of the Austrian People's Party; 1), pp. 105–114.

literature

  • Harry Slapnicka : Heinrich Gleißner: from a worker's son to the first man in Upper Austria. Karl von Vogelgesang-Inst., Vienna 1987, 54 pp.
  • Alois Zauner (Ed.): Upper Austria: Life pictures for the history of Upper Austria. Upper Austria State Archives, Linz 1981.
  • Franz Loidl: Former Governor D [octo] r Heinrich Gleissner, Volksmann and Christ . Obituaries Vienna, 1984 (Miscellanea / Vienna Catholic Academy, Working Group for Church History and Vienna Diocesan History; NR, 186).
  • Kulturverein Heinrich Gleißner Haus (ed.): Pathfinder: Heinrich Gleißner 1945 - 1955. Trauner, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85487-808-7 .
  • Franz X. Rohrhofer: Heinrich Gleißner, apprenticeship as a “father of the country”. OÖLA, Linz 2012, ISBN 978-3-902801-06-7

honors and awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Commemoration of Heinrich Gleißner , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, January 18, 2014.
  2. ^ Governor Pühringer on the 30th anniversary of Heinrich Gleißner's death . In: Landeskorrespondenz , No. 11 from January 17, 2014.
  3. ^ The curriculum vitae of the new members of the government. In:  Wiener Zeitung , September 22, 1933, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ↑ Irmgard Bärnthaler : The Fatherland Front. History and organization . Europa Verlag, Vienna / Frankfurt / Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-203-50379-7  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 206 , footnote 3 .
  5. ^ Max Stöger: Invasion and Executions 1938. In: Kronen Zeitung , February 24, 2008, p. 49.
  6. ^ Heinrich-Gleißner-Haus , in: linzwiki.at, accessed on November 26, 2016.
  7. ↑ Linz - Culture - Monuments: Bust of Heinrich Gleißner , accessed on August 2, 2017
  8. ^ Collection of the Gleißner private estate. (PDF; 78 kB) (No longer available online.) Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv , 2002, p. 4 , archived from the original on December 25, 2015 ; accessed on September 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Gleissner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician (ÖVP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1984
Place of death Linz