Manfred Krüttner

Manfred Krüttner (born March 30, 1909 in Görlitz ; † December 24, 1992 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( VdU / WdU or FPÖ ) and state official. From 1950 to 1974 he was a member of the Salzburg state parliament and from 1969 to 1974 its second deputy state parliament president.

education and profession

Krüttner completed elementary school in Rentsch near Bolzano in South Tyrol and moved with his family to Salzburg in 1922. There he attended the federal high school between 1922 and 1928 , where he passed the Matura in 1928 . After graduating from high school, Krüttner studied geography at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and entered the service of the Salzburg state government in 1939, where he was employed as a deputy state planner between 1939 and 1945. At the same time he did his military service in World War II from 1942 to 1945 . In 1945 he became a member of theNSDAP dismissed from the service of the Salzburg state government, but returned to service in 1952.

Politics and functions

Krüttner was a member of the NSDAP and joined the newly founded Association of Independents in 1949. From 1949 to 1954 he was managing director of the Association of Independents in Salzburg and was sworn in as a member of the Salzburg state parliament on January 23, 1950. Between 1954 and 1969 he acted as club chairman in the Salzburg state parliament, changing to the newly founded party after the founding of the Freedom Party of Austria. On May 14, 1969, Krüttner was elected as the second deputy president of the state parliament, a position he held until he left the state parliament on May 21, 1974.

Within the party, Krüttner was also district party chairman of the VdU and the FPÖ in Flachgau from 1949 to 1975 and a member of the state party executive between 1956 and 1975. He was also a member of the state party leadership of the FPÖ Salzburg from 1956 to 1985 and a member of the federal party leadership of the FPÖ from 1955 to 1963. At the local political level, he was a member of the Salzburg City Council from 1949 to 1954.

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 .