Heinrich Wenninger

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Heinrich Wenninger (born July 7, 1887 in Wels , † October 5, 1950 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian politician and businessman. From March 5, 1934 to October 31, 1934 he was regional councilor and then regional governor in the Upper Austrian regional government until 1938 .

education and profession

After attending commercial school, Wenninger completed a two-year internship in Hamburg before doing his military service as a one-year volunteer with Infantry Regiment No. 59 . After the death of his father in 1909 he took over his father's business for tableware and raw products and in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War, he was drafted into military service with Infantry Regiment No. 59. He fought between 1914 and 1918, first in Galicia and then on the Italian front.

After the Second World War, Wenninger became director of the Ferro-Betonit construction company in 1945.

Politics and functions

After the end of the First World War, Wenninger took part in the establishment of a defense in Wels in 1919, but this was disbanded after three months by a resolution of the Upper Austrian provincial government. Wenninger subsequently became involved in the Heimwehr , whose local leader he became in 1920. He held his position as local group leader until 1926, became deputy city commander in the course of the reorganization of the Heimwehr in 1926 and later again city commandant. After Heinrich Steinsky resigned , Wenninger took over the role of regional leader of the Heimwehr Upper Austria.

After the February fights in 1934 Wenninger demanded the revolutionary reorganization of the Upper Austrian provincial government and the security administration and sharply criticized the incumbent governor Josef Schlegel . After Schlegel resigned as a result of the conflict with the Heimwehr, Wenninger was elected to the regional council as a representative of the moderate wing of the Heimwehr with the votes of the Christian Social Party, but against the votes of the Greater Germans. He took up his post as regional councilor for trade, federal construction services, hospitals, food costs on March 1, 1934 and also oversaw the community affairs of the districts of Linz, Linz-Land, Steyr and Wels. On November 12, 1934, he was promoted to state governor (= state governor's deputy). At the same time he was Deputy Regional Leader of the Fatherland Front in Upper Austria. After the National Socialists came to power, Wenninger was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . After his release from prison in 1939, he was banned from staying in the " Ostmark ", which is why he moved to Munich . After the Second World War he was no longer politically active.

Private

Wenninger married the innkeeper daughter Maria Prenn in 1909. The couple had a daughter and three sons together. One of his sons was killed in World War II and a second died on the Traunstein . His third son died at a young age. Wenninger lived in Linz from 1933 and in Puchenau from 1938 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Kriechbaumer (Ed.): Austria! and Front Heil! (=  Series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg . Volume 23 ). Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77324-1 , p. 113 .
personal data
SURNAME Wenninger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels (city)
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1950
Place of death Linz