Meinrad Natmeßnig

Meinrad Natmeßnig (born March 19, 1892 in today's Dolintschig district of the city of Feldkirchen ; † April 27, 1982 in Velden ) was an Austrian bank manager , a member of the Austrian commercial cooperative system and a National Socialist functionary.

Life and education

From the age of 14, Natmeßnig initially worked as an unskilled worker in a paper factory, then as an assistant to the construction management of the Tauern Railway , and from 1910 in the office of a brick factory. In distance learning he continued his education in shorthand and bookkeeping, which is why he found a job at the commercial savings and credit bank in Spittal an der Drau .

As a self-confessed German national , he was also a member of the Austrian gymnastics club. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, in March 1938 he became finance officer of the state government, public administrator of the Klagenfurt-based Alpine Cooperative Association and from 1941 until the liberation Gauhauptmann . From May 1, 1945 he was also the district president .

Towards the end of the Second World War he brokered the transfer of power from Gauleiter Friedrich Rainer to representatives of the democratic parties on May 7, 1945, before the British troops marched in . This was a one-off case in which the National Socialist authorities handed over official business to democratic representatives.

On May 16, 1945, Natmeßnig was arrested by the British and interned until the end of 1946. He was acquitted in a process before the Klagenfurt Regional Court, but in the course of denazification he lost his director's post until 1952, which he held until 1945.

Professional activities

In 1914 he became managing director of the commercial relief fund association in Klagenfurt (today the commercial and commercial bank Volksbank Kärnten AG), and after it was renamed commercial and commercial bank Klagenfurt in 1919, its director. Despite numerous other offices, he remained managing director and was also a board member of the cooperative from 1941 to 1945. From 1947 to 1952 he served the cooperative as a consultant and from 1953 to 1965 he resumed his position on the board of directors and management board. After retiring in 1965, he served as a deputy chairman on the bank's board of directors until 1979. In 1979 he was elected honorary chairman of the cooperative for his services.

Awards

• Winner of the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria

literature

• Anton Kreuzer : Carinthian. Biographical sketches . Kärntner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85391-139-0 , pp. 147–148.
• Obituary in the commercial cooperative, Vienna 1982