Otto Foltz

Otto Foltz (born April 30, 1889 in Kobylan , Hungary, † May 21, 1942 in Linz ) was Chamber Secretary and Greater German politician .

Life

After attending grammar school in Linz, Foltz, the son of an estate manager, studied law and world trade in Vienna. There he became a member of the Academic Burschenschaft Upper Austrian Teutons in Vienna in 1909 . He took part in the First World War and received several war awards. He then worked as a secretary and later as deputy general manager in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Linz and then in the Upper Danube Chamber of Commerce . As an economics and administration specialist, he held leading positions in various institutions and companies : Landes-Hypothekenanstalt , Brauerei Zipf , Gewerbeförderungsinstitut and Landes-Eisenbahnrat . For the Greater German Party he was active in the Linz municipal council from 1923 to 1934 and in the Upper Austrian state parliament from 1925 to 1931 . As a representative of the moderate trend, he enjoyed a reputation among all parties.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 55-56.
• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership. 1918 to 1938 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 3). Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-163-X , p. 84 f.

Web links

• Biography of Otto Foltz on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emil Puffer: The Linz municipality mandatars. In: Historical Yearbook of the City of Linz 1968. Archive of the City of Linz , Linz 1969, ISSN  0440-9736 , pp. 53-278, here p. 135, no. 134, online (PDF; 6.2 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.