Helfried Pfeifer

Helfried Pfeifer (born December 31, 1896 in Vienna , † July 26, 1970 in Schwarzach / St. Veit ) was an Austrian politician ( VdU / FPÖ ) and university professor. From 1949 to 1959 he was a member of the National Council.

After finishing elementary school, Pfeifer attended grammar school in Vienna- Hietzing and then studied at the University of Vienna and Innsbruck . He completed his studies with a doctorate. In 1922 Pfeifer entered political administration and in 1935 became a lecturer in administrative theory and administrative law at the University of Vienna. In 1938 his lectureship was expanded to include political theory and constitutional law. He was promoted to associate professor in 1940 and became a full professor of constitutional and administrative law in 1944. After the Second World War, Pfeifer was dismissed from university service in 1945 and retired in 1948 after the status of 1938 as a state councilor.

As a Nazi administrative lawyer, Pfeifer wrote in 1941 under the title Die Ostmark. Inclusion and redesign, a collection of fundamental legal texts was published and commented on with approval, which document the transformation of the once independent Austria into the National Socialist Ostmark.

After the Second World War, Pfeifer represented the right-wing association of the independents or the electoral party of the Independents in the National Council between November 8, 1949 and June 8, 1956, and was then a member of the National Council of the also right-wing successor party FPÖ until June 9, 1959.

Web links

• Helfried Pfeifer on the website of the Austrian Parliament