Otto Kranzlmayr

Otto Kranzlmayr (born November 17, 1911 in Linz , † May 4, 1972 in Ried im Innkreis ) was an Austrian politician ( ÖVP ) and public prosecutor. From 1953 to 1972 he was a member of the Austrian National Council and from 1961 to 1963 State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

After primary school, Kranzlmayr attended a secondary school and then studied law at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck . In 1938 he received his doctorate. In addition, Kranzlmayr worked between 1937 and 1938 as secretary of the Chamber of Labor and Employees for Upper Austria in Linz and was briefly imprisoned for political reasons after the Nazis came to power in 1938. In 1945, Kranzlmayr became a public prosecutor at the Linz Regional Court, and later he moved to the Ried im Innkreis District Court, where he subsequently rose to become First Public Prosecutor.

Kranzlmayr was politically active as the ÖVP main district party chairman for Ried im Innkreis, and between 1966 and 1972 he was chairman of the supervisory board of the ORF and for several years a member of the Austrian delegation to the advisory assembly of the Council of Europe. He represented the ÖVP from March 18, 1953 to May 4, 1972 in the National Council and was also State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior from April 11, 1961 to November 5, 1963.

Kranzlmayr was married and had two children. He was a member of the Catholic Middle School Association Nibelungia in Linz and the student association KÖStV Austria Vienna .

Awards

• Golden badge of honor of the ÖAAB
• Large cross of merit with star and shoulder ribbon

Web links

• Otto Kranzlmayr on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Otto Kranzlmayr in the politician database of the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives