Ignaz Tschurtschenthaler

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Ignaz Josef Tschurtschenthaler (born February 1, 1890 in Kötschach-Mauthen , † December 16, 1954 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician .

Life

Ignaz Tschurtschenthaler was born on February 1, 1890, the son of a white tanner and farmer. After elementary school he entered the episcopal boys' seminar in Klagenfurt and attended grammar school there. While still in high school, Tschurtschenthaler joined the Catholic Pennalie Karantania (later KÖStV Karantania Klagenfurt in the MKV) in 1907 and, as its senior, was involved in the establishment of the Catholic Pennalie Gothia (later KÖStV Babenberg in the MKV) in the winter semester of 1908/09 . As a result, he came into conflict with the liberal or pan-German oriented teaching body, which led to his being expelled from school six weeks before the Matura. As a result, Tschurtschenthaler led an honor-libel suit against the high school professor and member of the state parliament Hans Angerer , who attracted attention throughout Austria , due to the disclosure of these two pennies . Angerer is said to have called Tschurtschenthaler “a characterless subject” in front of the director and another professor of the grammar school. The trial, which took place on the morning of April 3, 1909, resulted in Angerer's acquittal. Tschurtschenthaler's appeal against the judgment was dismissed in mid-May 1909 because it could not be objectively proven that Angerer had made the aforementioned statement to Tschurtschenthaler. It was only through the intervention of the Christian Social Reichsrat member Albert Geßmann that Tschurtschenthaler was able to take the Matura at the Klosterneuburg grammar school as an external student . He earned his living during his school days by giving tutoring and selling eggs.

After that, he began studying law at the University of Graz and was at that time a member of the KÖStV Traungau Graz , which he joined on 11 October 1909 and in which he the Couleur name Igo received. In October 1910 he was elected consenior . He was re-elected in that position the following spring. In the summer semester of 1913 he became a senior in the student union and was then a fox major in the winter semester of 1914/15 . In addition to his studies, which he completed as a doctor of law , Tschurtschenthaler attended the Abitur course , which enabled him to complete additional commercial and business training.

Tschurtschenthaler then worked as a trainee in Innsbruck and Klagenfurt - according to other information, he was also active as a lawyer in Graz and Vienna - before opening his own law firm in Klagenfurt in 1925. In his own law firm he dealt mainly with bankruptcy law . Tschurtschenthaler, who was involved in the Christian Social Party and soon got into politics as a result, served as Klagenfurt councilor from 1926 to 1934 . He was then briefly represented as a CS member in the Austrian Federal Council from March 7, 1934 to May 2, 1934, and then moved to the Carinthian Landtag , where he held his mandate from 1934 to 1938. During the July coup in 1934 was used by the Nazis to assassinate perpetrated on Tschurtschenthaler. In the autumn of 1934 he became a member of the State Council of the corporate state , to which he belonged from November 1, 1934 to March 12, 1938, the Anschluss of Austria . It was also the State Council that elected him again to the Federal Council on November 27, 1934. From 1934 to 1937 Tschurtschenthaler Carinthia was the regional leader of the Ostmärkische Sturmscharen .

On the night of March 12, 1938, during the Anschluss of Austria, he was arrested by the National Socialists and deported to Dachau concentration camp on May 24, 1938 . His house in Klagenfurt was confiscated by the Sturmabteilung and his lake house in Pörtschach by the Schutzstaffel . On September 27, 1939, Tschutschenthaler was transferred to the Flossenbürg concentration camp , from which he was released in the spring of 1940, already in poor health. In addition to Alfred Ferstl , Karl Quaß and Max Riccabona , Tschurtschenthaler was one of four Urphilisters of the K.Ö.St.V. Traungau Graz who were in a concentration camp during World War II.

After his release, Tschurtschenthaler was banned from the district and from the profession and was removed from the list of lawyers. According to other sources, it was removed from the list more than a year earlier. He then went to Vienna , where, after a convalescence leave, he was trained as a building manager, real estate broker and tax advisor. In November 1941, Tschurtschenthaler's application for a concession as a real estate agent was rejected. Almost a year later, in October 1942, he was admitted as a helper in tax matters and employed by the Carinthian Gaupersonalamt as a tax consultant, but had to report to the Gestapo every week during the Second World War . In parallel to his professional career, he completed an apprenticeship as a qualified economist at the University of World Trade in Vienna , which he completed in 1944.

On the night of March 19, 1945 he returned to Carinthia and resumed his legal practice after the Second World War. Together with other personalities, he was involved in founding the ÖVP Carinthia this year and was also one of the founding members. As a candidate for the first elections to the National Council, he was also elected there and belonged to it from December 19, 1945 to November 8, 1949, for an entire legislative period . In 1950 Tschurtschenthaler was appointed a substitute member of the Constitutional Court . As the Austrian Cartell Association notes on its official website, Tschurtschenthaler was not, as stated by Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , the ÖVP state party leader. According to the ÖCV, the statement made in the biographical manual of the Austrian parliamentarians that he was the deputy governor of Carinthia under Hans Piesch is also wrong .

In addition, Tschurtschenthaler was also involved in the Austrian Cartel Association, in which he was, among other things, from 1930 to 1938 and for a short time from 1945 chairman of the Carinthian Old Herrenland Federation. His son Gottfried Tschurtschenthaler (1924 – approx. 1978) also worked as a lawyer in Klagenfurt and was a member of the KÖStV Traungau Graz. Ignaz Tschurtschenthaler died on December 16, 1954 at the age of 64 in Klagenfurt.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c addendum. - From the courtroom. In:  Free Voices. Deutsche Kärntner Landes-Zeitung , April 3, 1909, p. 7 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ For correction. In:  Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , April 7, 1909, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / knz, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Addendum. - From the courtroom. In:  Free Voices. Deutsche Kärntner Landes-Zeitung , April 10, 1909, p. 9 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / fst, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ Courtroom . Regional court. Klagenfurt, May 15. Professor Angerer before the regional court. In:  Kärntner Zeitung / Kärntner Tagblatt , May 16, 1909, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / knz, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Complete index of the CV 1925, ZDB -ID 342845-x , p 271st
  6. ↑ Association news. Catholic German student association “Traungau”. In:  Allgemeine Tiroler Anzeiger , October 12, 1910, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ From the neighboring countries. Graz .. In:  Vorarlberger Volksblatt , October 13, 1910, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / vvb, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  8. ↑ Association news. Catholic-German student association “Traungau”. In:  Allgemeine Tiroler Anzeiger , May 4, 1911, p. 12 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / tan, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ Compensation and bankruptcies. In Carinthia. In:  Neues Grazer Tagblatt , August 14, 1925, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  10. ↑ The Economist. (Payment settings in Carinthia. In:  Tagblatt with the illustrated monthly “Bergland”) , January 25, 1930, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  11. ↑ Economy and Trade. (Bankruptcies.). In:  Tagblatt with the illustrated monthly magazine “Bergland” , August 3, 1930, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gtb, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  12. ^ Carinthian regional news. The advisory boards of the national leadership of the VF in Carinthia. In:  Alpenländische Rundschau , July 25, 1936, p. 10 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / alp, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  13. ↑ Helmut Haidacher: 50 years of Traungau. Heinrich Stiasny's Sons, Graz 1958, p. 40.
  14. ↑ Gau Carinthia. Cleaning of the Carinthian legal profession. In:  Völkischer Beobachter. Battle sheet of the national-socialist movement of Greater Germany. Vienna edition , January 2, 1939, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / vob, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  15. ↑ Miscellaneous. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt , December 20, 1942, p. 8 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwg, accessed on January 9, 2020.
  16. ↑ cf. Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 250.

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personal data
SURNAME Tschurtschenthaler, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschurtschenthaler, Ignaz Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, politician (CS, VF, ÖVP), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, member of the Council of State and member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötschach-Mauthen , Carinthia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1954
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Carinthia , Austria