Max Stendebach

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Max Stendebach (born January 11, 1892 in Leipzig , † December 18, 1984 in Sankt Veit an der Glan ) was an Austro-German officer and politician ( VdU / FPÖ ). From 1953 to 1959 he was a member of the National Council ; from 1952 to 1956 also federal party chairman of the VdU.

Life

From Easter 1902 Stendebach attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in his hometown . He became an officer in the German Empire . During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DNVP between 1924 and 1928 . At the beginning of the 1930s, Stendebach moved to Austria and ran an estate in Upper Carinthia.

In the Second World War , Stendebach was again deployed as an active officer, where he received the German Cross in Gold as a Lieutenant Colonel in January 1943 as commander of the 85 Mountain Infantry Regiment, which was also deployed as part of the 5th Mountain Division during the siege of Leningrad . His last rank was a colonel .

After the war, Stendebach, who had become an Austrian citizen in 1947, got involved in the VdU and in 1952 ran unsuccessfully against Otto Scrinzi for the office of Carinthian state party chairman. On October 29, 1952, as a compromise candidate, he became federal chairman of the VdU after the liberal course of the previous chairman Herbert A. Kraus had led to violent internal disputes. After the National Council election in 1953 , he received a mandate, which he also exercised for the successor party FPÖ until 1959.

When the FPÖ was founded in 1956, Stendebach was a member of the Proponentenkommitee; the name “Freedom Party of Austria” goes back to his suggestion.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Student album 1880–1904 / 05 . König Albert Gymnasium (Royal Gymnasium until 1900) in Leipzig. Friedrich Grober, Leipzig 1905.
  2. ↑ Lothar Höbelt: From the fourth party to the third force. The history of the VdU . Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7020-0866-7 , p. 173.
  3. ↑ Kurt Piringer: The story of the freedom. Contribution of the Third Force to Austrian politics . Orac-Pietsch Verlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-85369-913-2 , p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Stendebach, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German officer and politician (VdU, FPÖ), member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1984
Place of death Sankt Veit an der Glan