Otto Neudörfer

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Otto Neudörfer (born November 7, 1875 in Vienna ; † April 28 or 29, 1932 ) was an Austrian lawyer , association attorney and associate professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna .

He was an association attorney for the General Association of Self-Help Austrian Acquisitions and Economic Cooperatives (from 1930 Austrian Cooperative Association , ÖGV).

In 1922, together with the affiliated cooperatives, he founded the Österreichische Zentralgenossenschaftskasse ( Österreichische Volksbanken-Aktiengesellschaft , ÖVAG, since 1974 ) and held a leading position first on the management board and later on the supervisory board .

education

Neudörfer studied after completing the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium Jus at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1902 for Doctor of Law . After completing military service and one year of legal practice , he came into contact with the cooperative system .

In November 1918 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer for cooperatives at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, where in 1924 he was awarded the title of extraordinary professor.

Professional activity in cooperative associations

He began in 1903 as a secretary to Karl Wrabetz in the general association of self-help based commercial and economic cooperatives in Austria.

In April 1908 he switched to the General Association of Agricultural Cooperatives in Austria, where he worked until it was dissolved after the First World War .

Afterwards he was entrusted with the management of the legal and auditing department at Agroterre - Agricultural Purchasing and Sales Company.

After the resignation of the association attorney Karl Wrabetz, he took over the provisional management of the general association and was unanimously elected association attorney at the association conference in 1920.

In 1922 he founded the Austrian Central Cooperative Fund together with the affiliated cooperatives. There he was chairman of the board until July 1931 and subsequently chairman of the supervisory board until his death.

Neudorfer's efforts were aimed at unifying the Schulze-Delitzsch associations that existed at the time. These were finally successful in 1930 at the Cooperative Day in Kitzbühel, where the General Association of Self-Help-Based Commercial and Economic Cooperatives in Austria merged with the Central Association of Commercial and Economic Cooperatives in Austria and has since been referred to as the Austrian Cooperative Association.

Other banking tasks

Publications

  • The leasing cooperatives in Italy, 1908
  • Sketches from the development history of the cooperative concept (1910)
  • The draft of a new cooperative law and the development of the Austrian cooperative system, 1913
  • The cooperative credit organization of Austrian agriculture (1915), habilitation thesis
  • The essence of the cooperative, 1917
  • The expansion of the agricultural cooperative system, 1919
  • Basics of the cooperative system. A systematic account of the history, legislation, theory and organization of the trade and economic cooperatives, 1921
  • Handbook for trade and business cooperatives, 1924

literature

  • Johann Brazda , Robert Schediwy , Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Vienna 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Brazda , Robert Schediwy , Tode Todev: Self-help or politicized economy, On the history of the Austrian cooperative association (Schulze-Delitzsch) 1872 to 1997 , Vienna 1997, p. 349f.
personal data
SURNAME Neudörfer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, university professor and person in the Austrian cooperative system
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1932 or April 29, 1932