Hermann Kletzmayr (politician, 1897)

Hermann Kletzmayr (born March 9, 1897 in Garsten ; † July 10, 1971 in Linz ) was an Upper Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and civil servant. From 1949 to 1961 he was a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and from 1954 to 1961 a regional councilor for trade, elections and asset protection in the Upper Austrian state government .

education and profession

Kletzmayr attended elementary school in Steyr and continued his education at the Kollegium Petrinum in Linz and at the State High School in Ried im Innkreis . He enlisted voluntarily in 1915 for use in the First World War and laid in 1916 during his leave from the front, the war Matura from. During the war he was deployed with the Upper Austrian riflemen and the 14th Infantry Regiment and, after being wounded several times, disarmed as a lieutenant at the end of the war. After the end of the war, he worked for the Steyrer Zeitung between 1918 and 1921 and then worked in social security at the Agricultural Health Insurance Fund and the People's Protection, where he was director from 1928. From 1933 he was involved in the reorganization of the commercial health insurance for Lower Austria, in 1934 he switched to the Upper Austrian regional health insurance. After the National Socialists came to power, he was released without notice in 1938 and temporarily placed in " protective custody ". In 1939 he was drafted as a reserve officer for service in the Wehrmacht , where he fought in Poland, France and the Soviet Union. At the end of 1945 he returned from captivity with the rank of captain.

After the Second World War, he was State Secretary of the Austrian Economic Association from 1945 to 1962. Furthermore, he acted from 1948 to 1959 as director of the master health insurance fund for handicrafts for Upper Austria in Linz and between 1954 and 1961 was president of the Upper Austria tourist association. In addition, from April 1957, he was a member of the supervisory board of the Kohlenimport- und GroßhandelsgmbH in Salzburg.

Politics and functions

Kletzmayer was active as a city councilor in Steyr before the Second World War. In 1945 he was a co-founder of the Austrian Economic Association of the ÖVP and from 1945 to 1948 a member of the Linz City Council. On November 5, 1949, he was sworn in as a member of the Upper Austrian state parliament and on October 19, 1954, after Franz Breitwieser's resignation, he also took over the office of regional councilor in the Upper Austrian state government, with the departments of trades, elections and asset protection being subordinate to him. He exercised his office as regional councilor and his parliamentary mandate until November 16, 1961.

Private

Kletzmayr was born as the son of Hermann Kletzmayr and Franziska, née Fürthaler, who later became members of the National Council . He was married to Katharina Donke from 1921 and was the father of three children, one of whom was killed in World War II.

Awards

• Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (1961)
• Julius Raab Medal of Honor from the Austrian Economic Association

literature

Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 12). Oöla, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-90031-347-4 , pp. 145 f.

Web links

• Biography of Hermann Kletzmayr on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .