Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof

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Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof , also Otto Hoffmann von Wellenhof , (born March 14, 1909 in Graz , † May 8, 1988 in Graz) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and writer .

Life

Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof (1909–1988) was born into a Catholic family as the son of the surgeon Karl Hofmann von Wellenhof and Klothilde von Kraus. His uncle was the writer and politician Paul Hofmann von Wellenhof . His great-uncle, the physician Georg Hofmann von Wellenhof, was a pioneer in research into infectious diseases in Austria at the Vienna Hygiene Institute.

After attending elementary school, he graduated from a humanistic grammar school in 1929 and then matriculated at the law faculty of the University of Graz . At the same time he worked from 1929 to 1939 as a private secretary “for a scientific publicist”.

Hofmann-Wellenhof had been active as a writer since 1939 and published mostly cheerful stories and anecdotes in newspapers and magazines. During the period of the corporate state he was a member of the unity party Patriotic Front and broadcast his cheerful stories on the radio.

After the annexation of Austria , the first book publications followed in the early 1940s, and he also worked as a journalist for the Nazi publications Volksstimme (Linz) and Donauzeitung (Belgrade). Although the NSDAP district leadership could not guarantee that he would campaign unreservedly for the Nazi state , and despite the reservations of the Gestapo regarding his political reputation and his Catholic denomination, Hofmann-Wellenhof was accepted into the Reichsschrifttumskammer . He was not a member of the NSDAP, but of the National Socialist People's Welfare .

On November 17, 1944, Hofmann-Wellenhof suffered a severe blow of fate: his mother, his wife and his three children were shot in a rampage by a mentally disturbed officer who could not cope with the impending defeat in World War II .

After the end of the Second World War , Hofmann-Wellenhof wrote sketches for the time-critical Graz cabaret Igel and worked as a journalist for various newspapers. From 1947 the head of the literature department was at the station Alpenland founded by the British in their zone of occupation and based in Graz.

In 1949 he became president of the professional association of Austrian journalists and authors and in the same year also a board member of the Styrian Writers' Association (SSB), of which he became honorary president in 1981. In 1953 and 1955 he took part in the Pürgger Poet Weeks . In the 1960s he was associated with the Alpenländischer Kulturverband Südmark (AKVS). He was in charge of the book series Styrian Authors at Stiasny Verlag, which published the first publications of young authors, and was also the program director of Radio Graz . Hofmann-Wellenhof stayed with the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and was eventually promoted to deputy broadcasting director (1967–1974). He was the author of several articles in the Eckartbote published by the Austrian Landsmannschaft .

Political career

Born in Graz, he was a member of the ÖVP in the Styrian state parliament from 1953 to 1957 . For the ÖVP he became a member of the Bundesrat in 1957 and remained so until 1980. In 1962, 1971, 1976 and 1980 he took over the chairmanship of the Bundesrat for six months. On July 8, 1980, Hofmann-Wellenhof was elected chairman of the 12th Federal Assembly, which met to swear in the re-elected Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger .

Hofmann-Wellenhof was particularly committed to the concerns of the expellees and was considered the liaison of the Styrian People's Party to the German national camp. Along with Taras Borodajkewycz and Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt, he was chairman of the General German Cultural Association (ADKV) founded in 1958, today a working group of the Austrian Landsmannschaft founded in 1880 to protect German minorities .

Fonts

  • Everyday smiling. Stiasny, Graz 1946.
  • One week before the wedding (= Lichtblick-Bibliothek. Vol. 2). Mur-Verlag, Graz 1947, (2nd edition. Stiasny, Graz et al. 1952).
  • Panorama. Stories and sketches . Graz & Vienna, Staisny 1954.
  • Trend: predominantly cheerful (= Stiasny library . Vol. 62, ZDB -ID 1067853-0 ). Introduced and selected by Alfred Holzinger. Stiasny, Graz et al. 1959.
  • Images, far and near. Stories, humoresques, feature pages . Krems ad Donau, Heimatland-Verlag 1966.
  • Speaking against the wind. Stocker, Graz et al. 1979, ISBN 3-7020-0333-9 .
  • From my perfect world. Stocker, Graz et al. 1984, ISBN 3-7020-0460-2 .
  • Time and untimely stories . Stocker, Graz 1989.

literature

  • Oswald Werther: Federal Councilor Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof. Friend and helper of the ethnic German expellees in Styria. In: The way to the new home. The ethnic Germans in Styria. Leopold Stocker, Graz et al. 1988, ISBN 3-7020-0551-X , pp. 13-18.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Flamm: Georg von Hofmann-Wellenhof, 130 years ago first victim at the beginning of research into infectious diseases in Austria . In: Wiener Medical Wochenschrift . No. 9-10 / 2019 . Springer, December 11, 2018, ISSN  1563-258X ( springer.com [accessed August 7, 2019]).
  2. ↑ BArch BDC / RSK-AA April 3, 1939
  3. ↑ a b c d Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 1: Styria. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77809-7 , p. 137.
  4. ^ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlacher: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system. Volume 1: Styria. Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77809-7 , p. 138.
  5. ^ Alfred Holzinger: Tendency: Predominantly cheerful . Stiasny, Graz 1959, p. 21 ( google.at [accessed on August 7, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Alfred Ableitinger, History State Commission for Styria: History of Styria . Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz 2004, ISBN 978-3-901251-30-6 , p. 415 ( google.at [accessed on August 7, 2019]).
  7. ^ Alfred Holzinger, Grete Scheuer, Styria (Austria) Kulturreferat: Literature in Styria from 1945-1976 . Ed .: Steiermärkische Landesregierung. Styria. Provincial government, Graz 1978, p. 36 ( google.at [accessed on August 7, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Hölzl, Wolfgang (1991). 'The Greater German Confessor'. National and National Socialist Rosegger reception . (European university publications series I volume 1236). Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris: Long. P. 240ff.
  9. ^ Paul Pechmann: Literature in Styria from 1945 to today. In: kultur.steiermark.at. Archived from the original on June 7, 2005 ; accessed on January 4, 2014 .
  10. ↑ https://webarchiv.onb.ac.at/web/20160903183838/http://www.onb.ac.at/oe-literaturzeitschriften/Eckartbote/Eckartbote_texte.htm
  11. ^ Walter Wiltschegg: Austria - the "Second German State"? The national thought in the First Republic. Leopold Stocker, Graz et al. 1992, ISBN 3-7020-0638-9 , p. 197 f.
  12. ^ "Foundation of the General German Cultural Association". In: Sudetenpost , volume 3 of February 8, 1958, p. 4. http://www.sudetenpost.eu/Archiv/1958/3.pdf
  13. ↑ http://www.oelm.at/arbeitsgruppen/
  14. ↑ Note: OTTO HOF F MANN v. WELLENHOF (spelling of the name on the title page).
  15. ↑ a b c List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

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predecessor Office successor
Friedrich Gugg President of the Austrian Federal Council
July 1, 1962 - December 31, 1962 		Franz Gschnitzer
predecessor Office successor
Hans Heger President of the Austrian Federal Council
July 1, 1971 - December 31, 1971 		Helmut Mader
predecessor Office successor
Hans Heger President of the Austrian Federal Council
January 1, 1976 - June 30, 1976 		Rudolf Schwaiger
predecessor Office successor
Hans Heger President of the Austrian Federal Council
July 1, 1980 - December 31, 1980 		Rudolf Schwaiger
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann-Wellenhof, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann von Wellenhof, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1988
Place of death Graz