Ludwig Strobl

Ludwig Strobl (born January 22, 1900 in Siebenhirten ; † July 9, 1974 in Vienna ) was an Austrian cooperative member , civil servant and politician ( VF / ÖVP ). During the Austro-fascist dictatorship he was Minister of Agriculture and Forestry under Kurt Schuschnigg .

Life

Ludwig Strobl studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna and was awarded a Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He was an original member of the Catholic student union K.Ö.HV Franco Bavaria Vienna (since 1933 in the ÖCV ). Since 1931 he worked in the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture. Ludwig Strobl was the father of a daughter named Margarete and a son named Thomas-Michael.

Strobl was Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry in Kurt Schuschnigg's cabinet from October 17, 1935 to May 14, 1936. From January 1936 to February 1939, he was executive president of the major purchasing company of Austrian consumer associations, GöC . From 1937 to 1969 he was a functionary in the International Union of Cooperatives (IGB). From November 1940 to February 1945 he was managing director of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG) in Hamburg . In the Second Republic, Dr. Karl Renner returns to the top of the GöC. At the end of 1949 he switched to the Association of Rural Cooperatives in Lower Austria as General Director , from 1967 to 1970 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Genossenschaftliche Zentralbank AG and from 1962 to 1967 he was also Vice President of the National Bank.

In 1949 he was a founding member of the Lower Austrian State Hunting Association (NÖ LJV) together with Leopold Figl and Bruno Marek .

Quote

"The happiest time in my professional life was at GöC - the major purchasing company of Austrian consumer associations."

Ludwig Strobl was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Awards

• 1936: Grand Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit
• 1949: Decoration of honor in gold from the Austrian Nature Conservation Union

Fonts

• Instructions for the management of the simple agricultural. Bookkeeping according to the vd book office dn-ö. State Chamber of Agriculture elaborated Method , publisher of the Lower Austrian Chamber of Agriculture, 1927
• The farmer's cash bookkeeping , Agrarverlag Vienna, 1928
• The profitability of Austrian agriculture in 1929 ff. , Together with Franz Grünseis
• Our Chancellor Dollfuss as an agrarian , Agrarverlag Vienna, 1934

literature

• Erhard Boberski: Dr. Ludwig Strobl , goods center Austria. Agricultural Associations Self-published cooperatives WÖV, 1970
• Erhard Boberski: Dr. Ludwig Strobl - A life in the service of the economically weak, Vienna 1970

Web links

• Entry about Ludwig Strobl in Biolex, the web lexicon of the ÖCV
• Ludwig Strobl on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Agriculture Ministers of the Republic of Austria , AEIOU, viewed on February 17, 2010.
2. ↑ Peter Höfferer, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom: 160 Years of Consumer Cooperatives in Austria, Publisher: Research Association Development and History of Consumer Cooperatives, Vienna 2016, 2nd edition p. 29, ISBN 978-3-9501499-7-5 .
3. ↑ About us. (No longer available online.) Lower Austrian State Hunting Association, archived from the original on January 17, 2013 ; accessed on December 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Dr Ludwig Strobl: A life for the cooperative, interview from May 15, 1974 in Vienna, CD from the research association for the development and history of consumer cooperatives, Vienna
5. ^ The former minister Dr. Strobl again in the large buying company of the consumer associations. In:  The progressive farmer. Weekly for practical agriculture and land culture , June 20, 1936, p. 391 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Decoration of Honor of the Austrian Nature Conservation Union ), viewed on February 17, 2010.