Leopold Thurner

Leopold Thurner (born November 7, 1888 in Maribor ; † May 22, 1980 in Villach ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ), professional soldier and manufacturer. From 1949 to 1953 he was a member of the Austrian National Council .

Life

After elementary school, Thurner attended the state high school in Marburg and passed the Matura there in 1906 . He completed study trips to Italy, France and the USA and continued his education at the Theresian Military Academy. He was retired from Infantry Regiment No. 97 in Trieste, and in 1913 he was accepted into the war school . During the First World War he served as a general staff officer, particularly on the Italian front, where he was employed in the war economics department of the War Ministry in the last months of the war. After he was not accepted into the armed forces after the end of the war , he was initially self-employed in the timber trade and then as an employee in the insurance industry or as a sales representative in the mineral oil industry. He was involved in the Heimwehr and after its dissolution in 1936 became Chief of Staff of the 7th Front Militia Brigade in Klagenfurt. After the National Socialists came to power, Thurner lost this position and in 1939 found a job in the Graflich Lodron forest administration. In 1942 he moved to Mühldorf , where he worked for the M. Hopfgartner textile company.

After the end of the Second World War, Thurner became deputy mayor in Mühldorf in 1945 and founded an electrical appliance factory there in 1946. He was chairman of the Mühldorf ÖVP and chairman of the Mühldorf Economic Association and represented the ÖVP in the National Council between November 8, 1949 and March 18, 1953.

literature

• Karl Liko: Retired in a stormy century. 100 years of retirement 1909 - 144 lieutenants and their fates. In: ÖMZ , 5/2009.

Web links

• Leopold Thurner on the website of the Austrian Parliament