Josef Ostertschnig

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Josef Ostertschnig (born January 17, 1896 in Eberstein , † August 5, 1988 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) was an Austrian postal worker, politician and member of the state parliament.

Josef Ostertschnig was born as the fourth child of a family of bakers. Shortly before the start of World War I , he entered the civil service as a postal worker. During the war he fought at the front, after which he returned to the post office. In 1935 he became an inspector . After the “Anschluss” he was downgraded to a ticket clerk by the new rulers . He was interrogated several times by the Gestapo and finally dismissed from civil service because he was hostile to the new regime. In the Second Republic in 1945 he was returned to the civil service and, as a victim of National Socialism, was promoted to chief inspector.

Ostertschnig was the initiator and first state party secretary of the Democratic Party of Austria (DPÖ). It was also he who was able to win over the monarchist Franz Knapitsch and his financial support for the party. After the Carinthian state elections on November 25, 1945, Knapitsch entered the Carinthian state parliament as the only member of the state parliament of the DPÖ , but was arrested in January 1946 because Nazi material and sliding goods had been found on his farm . After a long legal battle, Ostertschnig was able to move into the Carinthian state parliament in place of Knapitsch on March 23, 1948 and held this position until the state election in 1949 . After the election, the DPÖ disappeared from political life and Ostertschnig also turned his back on party politics. As a club official, however, he still appeared in public. In 1953, Ostertschnig was involved as chairman in the founding of the Klagenfurt music club “Die Khevenhüller”, a traditional band of the former kuk infantry regiment “Graf von Khevenhüller” No. 7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas P. Pittler : Small parties: carp in a pike pond. In: wienerzeitung.at . April 8, 2005, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Die Khevenhüller" music association. (PDF; 4.7 MB) In: Klagenfurter & St. Veiter monthly newspaper. November 2015, p. 24 , accessed April 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ostertschnig, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberstein
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1988
Place of death Klagenfurt am Wörthersee