Johann Löwenfeld-Russ

Johann Löwenfeld-Russ (born October 29, 1873 in Vienna ; † April 18, 1945 there ) was an Austrian politician .

Life

Johann Löwenfeld-Russ grew up in Kremsmünster and Melk , where he attended the local high schools ( Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster and Stiftsgymnasium Melk ). He then studied law at the Charles University in Prague and the University of Vienna . In 1896 he got a job as a trainee in the Financial Directorate in Prague , before moving to the Ministry of Economics in Vienna in 1898. In 1910 Löwenfeld-Russ became an independent speaker and distinguished himself by solving industrial-political and economic problems. In 1916 he was appointed Ministerialrat appointed and transferred to the Office for People's Nutrition.

After he was promoted to section head on February 11, 1918, he was appointed State Secretary in the State Office for People's Nutrition of the Renner I state government on October 30 of the same year ; Above all, he had to deal with the poor supply situation for the German Austrians . He retained his office in the state governments of Renner II and Renner III , which were elected by the Constituent National Assembly . In the next two years he was primarily committed to centralizing the food supply so that in future it was no longer the farmers but the state governments that had control over agricultural production. He also held talks with the Allies about unbureaucratic food deliveries and favorable payment terms.

After leaving the ministry in 1921, Löwenfeld-Russ went into the private sector, where he served on several Austrian and international supervisory boards. He published some specialist articles in newspapers.

Johann Löwenfeld-Russ was the stepson of the politician Viktor Wilhelm Russ . He was married and had two children.

literature

• Böck:  Löwenfeld-Russ Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 291.
• Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Michaela Follner: Servants of many masters. Biographical manual of the section heads of the First Republic and 1945. Ed. By the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and the Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-901142-32-0 , pp. 274–275.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Löwenfeld-Russ in the catalog of the German National Library