Kurt Planck

Kurt Planck von Planckburg (born February 12, 1911 in Salzburg ; † January 11, 1975 in Salzburg) was the security director of the State of Salzburg and an Austrian landowner, co-owner of the Landtäflichen estate "Piberbach and Weyer" in the Traunviertel in Kematen an der Krems and a police lawyer .

family

Kurt Planck was a son of Lieutenant Colonel Konrad Planck von Planckburg and Maria Spängler and thus a grandson of the founder of the bank for Upper Austria and Salzburg, today Oberbank , which emerged in 1869 as a joint stock company from the long-established Planck's banking house " JM Scheibenpogens Eidam " in Linz . In 1945 he married Gisela Aloisia Roth (* 1919 in Salzburg). In 1946 his son Alexander Kurt Planck was born.

Life

After his education at Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster in Upper Austria and the graduation in 1929, he graduated in law at the University of Vienna with abs. iur. in 1933. From 1934 to 1938 he worked as a police lawyer at the police and security departments in Innsbruck , Salzburg and Linz as well as at the Federal Chancellery .

On March 13, 1938 after the “Anschluss” he was released and arrested. He then worked as an authorized representative of a Salzburg textile company. He was later called up for military service, where he contracted typhus .

In 1945 he was reinstated in the Second Republic as deputy police director in Salzburg. Between 1954 and 1972 Planck was Director of Security for the State of Salzburg and was appointed Real Councilor .

honors and awards

• Great badge of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
• Decoration of Honor of the State of Salzburg
• Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Series Erbe und Sendung - Gestalter und Gestalten.
• The Planck von Planckburg and the Scheibenpogen. Series of publications. Linz 1943.