Ludwig Stepski-Doliwa

Ludwig Stepski-Doliwa (born December 15, 1875 in Vienna , † May 14, 1965 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician and professional officer. From 1934 to 1938 he was a member of the State Parliament of Salzburg and in 1938 he was State Secretary for Industry in the Federal Ministry of Trade and Transport.

education and profession

Stepski-Doliwa attended grammar school in Vienna after primary school, where he went to school first in Vienna and then in Salzburg. He passed the Matura and then studied law at the University of Vienna between 1893 and 1894 , but began training as a career officer in Salzburg as early as 1893. He then worked as an officer in Salzburg from 1893 to 1906 and was transferred to Galicia in 1906. In 1908, between 1912 and 1913 and in World War I between 1914 and 1918, he was deployed in the war. After the end of the First World War, Stepski-Doliwa became President of the Salzburg Officers' Association in 1918, after which he moved to the Salzburg Grain Society as director in 1920, where he worked until 1924. He then worked from 1924 to 1929 as head of the field service and member of the board of the Stern & Hafferl company , after which he worked from 1929 to 1938 as a director at Österreichische Kraftwerke AG. He was also Vice President of SAFE from 1935 to 1938 and Chairman of the Administrative Commission of the Austrian Federal Railways in 1936. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Stepski-Doliwa was employed as a staff officer at the military district command XVIII in Salzburg from 1939 to 1945 , after which he worked from 1945 to 1947 as a public administrator and from 1947 to 1949 as a board member of SAFE.

Politics and functions

Stepski-Doliwa was Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce, Commerce and Industry in Salzburg from 1931 to 1938, and from 1930 to 1938 he held the office of President of the Salzburg Section of the Main Association of Industry in Austria. He was a member of the State Parliament of Salzburg from November 22, 1934 to March 12, 1938 as a representative of industry and mining, and from February 16, 1938 to March 11, 1938, he was State Secretary for Industry in the Federal Ministry of Trade and Transport. After the end of the Second World War he was Vice President of the Salzburg Federation of Industrialists from 1947. He was also a founding member of the Salzburg Officers Society. In 1962, the Salzburg Federation of Industrialists named him honorary president for his services.

literature

• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .

Web links

• Ludwig Stepski-Doliwa on the website of the Austrian Parliament