Johann Kraker

Johann Kraker (born March 22, 1909 in Kapfenberg , Styria , † April 7, 1988 there ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and teacher .

Life

After attending elementary school and high school in Bruck an der Mur , Johann Kraker passed his Matura in 1927 . After that he went to Graz , where he was first at the local University and most recently at the Technical University of mathematics , descriptive geometry and philosophy studied. In 1933 Kraker received the teaching examination.

From 1933 to 1937 Kraker worked as a teacher at the grammar school in Bruck an der Mur. On December 16, 1938, Professor Johann Kraker applied for membership in the NSDAP , which took place on January 1, 1940. Kraker was assigned membership number 8,504,954. In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and during the last days of the war he became a prisoner of war in the United States. His career also took him briefly as a teacher to Stockerau in Lower Austria , but after 1945 Kraker returned as a teacher to his old place of work in Bruck an der Mur.

He got involved in the new ÖVP early on. In 1951 he was elected as the district chairman of his party for the then existing Bruck an der Mur district , now part of the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district.

Only one year later, he was sent to Vienna by the Styrian state parliament , where he became a member of the Federal Council in November 1952 . In April 1953 he left the Austrian Chamber of States, only to be sworn in again as Federal Councilor two months later, in June 1953. His second term as Federal Councilor lasted until April 1957.

Web links

• Johann Kraker on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Wladika : On the representation of politicians and mandataries with a Nazi past in the Austrian People's Party 1945–1980. A group biographical study. Research project on behalf of the Karl von Vogelsang Institute. Vienna 2018, p. 159 ( PDF ).