Ludwig Steiner (politician, 1922)

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Ludwig Steiner (2008)

Ludwig Steiner (born April 14, 1922 in Innsbruck ; † June 28, 2015 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat and politician ( ÖVP ).

Life

youth

Ludwig Steiner was the son of Ludwig Steiner, master baker and Christian social councilor in Innsbruck from 1924 to 1933, and Rosa Steiner, née. Haas. In 1941 he graduated from the commercial academy in Innsbruck .

In 1941 he was called up for the Reich Labor Service in the Derneburg labor camp near Hildesheim and went with this unit to work in Cognac , France. Immediately after being disarmed from the Reich Labor Service, he was assigned to the Wehrmacht in the Jg. Replacement Btl. 136 Innsbruck withdrawn. In 1943 he was seriously wounded as a member of the 2nd Mountain Division on the Arctic Ocean front off Murmansk . After a stay in the hospital he became adjutant at Geb.Jg. Replacement Btl. 136 Innsbruck . In January 1945 he was involved in the relocation of the battalion from Innsbruck to Wolfsberg in Carinthia. From February 1945 until the end of the war he was released to study economics at the University of Innsbruck, which he began in December 1943 and completed in 1947 with a doctorate in economics (Doctor rerum mercantilium).

resistance

From the end of 1943 Steiner was active in the resistance (group O5 ). Towards the end of the Second World War he joined the Tyrolean resistance movement around the later Foreign Minister Karl Gruber , which was also involved in taking over the city of Innsbruck before the American army arrived at the end of the war.

In the second republic

After the end of the war he became politically active and in May 1945 co-founded the ÖVP Tirol. In 1945 he was secretary to the governor of Tyrol and member of the provisional Tyrolean parliament . From 1946 to 1948 he was secretary to the Innsbruck mayor Anton Melzer .

In 1948 he joined the diplomatic service in the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Foreign Affairs Department. From 1949 to 1951 he was embassy secretary at the Austrian embassy in Paris .

The South Tyrol negotiations necessitated a return to Innsbruck in 1952. He came to Vienna through Minister Gruber and was head of cabinet under Chancellor Julius Raab from 1953 to 1958 . In 1955 he was involved in the negotiations in Moscow that led to the State Treaty . He then returned to the diplomatic service until 1972, with an interruption from 1961 to 1964, during which he was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry. Steiner was head of the embassy in Sofia (1958–1961) and Austrian ambassador to Cyprus and Greece (1964–1972). He was involved in several relief operations for and looking after the politically persecuted during the Greek military dictatorship. From 1972 to 1979 he was Political Director and General Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (BMfAA) and Chairman of the Great Mixed Commissions Austria with all communist states in Eastern and Central Europe.

From 1979 to 1990 Ludwig Steiner was an ÖVP member of the National Council and at the same time the ÖVP's foreign policy spokesman. At the end of the 1980s he headed the committees of inquiry into the Draken, Lucona and Noricum affairs , the former leading, among other things, to the resignation of Karl Blecha as Minister of the Interior.

From 1979 to 1991 Steiner was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PVE) and from 1980 to 1991 chairman of the Political Commission of the PVE. In particular, he observed the military dictatorship in Turkey and in 1989 introduced a Convention on the Rights of Ethnic Minorities to the Council of Europe. From 1979 to 1991 he was also Vice President of the Union of Christian Democrats. From 1989 to 1996 he was President of the Political Academy of the ÖVP. From 1994 on he was also Vice President of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance . From 2001 to 2005 he was chairman of the Austrian Reconciliation Fund to compensate former Nazi forced laborers. From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the Management Board of the European Observatory on Racism and Xenophobia.

Ludwig Steiner was involved in numerous social projects in the Holy Land . In 1983 Ludwig Steiner was named Knight of the Knightly Order of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested in the order on May 7, 1983 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna by Jakob Weinbacher , Grand Prior of the Austrian Lieutenancy . Most recently he was an officer in the Papal Lay Order.

Since his studies he was a member of the student association AV Austria Innsbruck in the ÖCV . He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

At the first anniversary service on July 9, 2016, a memorial plaque for the state of Tyrol was unveiled at the Mariahilf parish church in Innsbruck in the presence of the President of the State Parliament Herwig van Staa and the Innsbruck City Councilor Franz Xaver Gruber .

honors and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conrad Seidl: Ludwig Steiner 1922–2015 resistance fighter, patriot, politician , Der Standard , June 29, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e CV of Mayor Ludwig Steiner , OESSH , accessed on July 1, 2015
  3. ^ Archive report: High distinction from the State of Vienna for Ludwig Steiner. In: www.wien.gv.at. September 26, 2005, accessed October 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ludwig Steiner: Red-white-red flags everywhere. In: doew.at. DÖW , accessed on October 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Grave site Ludwig Klemens Steiner , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 59, Group Extension C, No. 26.
  6. ↑ Reconciliation Fund: Great praise for Styria - High regional awards in Graz Castle. Federal state of Styria , December 20, 2006, accessed October 10, 2017 .
predecessor Office successor
Kurt Farbowsky Austrian ambassador in Athens
1964 to 1972 		1976: Simon Koller
Kurt Farbowsky Austrian ambassador to Nicosia
1964 to 1972 		1976: Simon Koller
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat and politician (ÖVP), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2015
Place of death Vienna