Raimund Neunteufel

Raimund Neunteufel (born May 22, 1872 in Japons an der Thaya , Lower Austria ; † April 18, 1937 in Graz , Styria ) was an Austrian politician of the Christian Social Party (CSP), then non-attached and later the German National Party (DnP) and the German Center .

Live and act

School and academic career as well as work as a journalist

Raimund Neunteufel was born on May 22nd, 1872 as the son of a farmer in the village of Japons on the Thaya. After elementary school , Neunteufel completed high school in the town of Horn, around 20 kilometers to the south . As a one-year volunteer , he subsequently joined the kuk infantry regiment "Ernst Ludwig Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine" No. 14 and then began studying medicine at the University of Vienna . He later gave this up to study law . During this time he came into contact with the KÖStV Austria Wien , a color-bearing and non-striking student association founded in 1876 and a member of the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV), where he was given the couleur name Sigurd . Within the fraternity was a Philistine senior and fox major . In the summer of 1899, Neunteufel was involved in the decision to set up a country team for students from Upper Austria and Salzburg. This resulted in the KÖStV Kürnberg , where the native of Lower Austria has been listed as a band philistine since then . Neunteufel did not successfully complete any of the studies he had started.

After breaking off this, Neunteufel came to Graz in 1900 and became editor of Der Sonntagsbote and later of Grazer Volksblatt , both of which were published by the Catholic Press Association (today: Styria Media Group). According to other sources, he did not come to the Sunday Messenger until 1902 as the editor in charge . In 1904 he left the editorial staff of the Grazer Volksblatt after he had asked for a high salary, but returned to the editorial office in 1906. During this time he also became a band philistine at the KÖHV Carolina Graz , which, as a first member of Austria Wien, could only become officially after the merger of the 2nd ÖCV with the CV. In 1910 he finally turned his back on the Grazer Volksblatt and founded his own body in Graz, the Austrian Citizen .

Leap into politics at the turn of the century

Neunteufel appeared politically active for the first time around a decade earlier. After a raid on members of the Carolina in Graz's Harrachgasse on November 21, 1901, a protest meeting took place on the following Monday, November 25, 1901. On this first Ninth Devil spoke; he was followed by Friedrich Funder , editor and longstanding publisher of the Reichspost . Both went into the causes and effects of the general Kulturkampf, as well as the Kulturkampf at the university. Since Neunteufel was already considered a brilliant speaker and writer, it was almost predetermined that he would subsequently go into politics. During his time in Vienna already strongly influenced by the Christian Socials, he tried to implement their ideas in Styria, which is why he is considered the actual founder of the Christian Socials in Styria (1901). It took more years before he was elected chairman of the state leadership of the Christian Social Reich Party on February 14, 1907. The CSP only became a Reich Party through successes in other Austrian crown lands .

In 1910 there was a dispute between Neunteufel, the then chairman of the Christian Socials, and the Reichsrat member Franz Hagenhofer , the then chairman of the Styrian farmers' union, which formed the organization of the Catholic Conservatives. As a result, there was an honor libel trial; the dispute was supposed to be settled at a unification conference on October 9, 1910, but this failed. In the Reichsrat election in 1911 , Neunteufel competed in an Upper Styrian constituency ( Styria 07 ) and subsequently won it. Thus he belonged from July 17, 1911 to the end of the monarchy of the XII. Legislative period as a member of the Reich. When the Christian Socials suffered considerable losses in this election, there was another dispute between Neunteufel and Hagenhofer. Subsequently, at a specially convened party congress on 8/9. December 1911 the so-called Independent Christian Social People's Party of the Germans of Austria was founded by some Christian Socials. From this time on, Neunteufel considered himself excluded from the Christian Social Reich Party and then became chairman of the party that had just been founded. In the same year, Ferdinand Reichsritter von Pantz , another member of the Reichsrat, joined the new party. At a second party congress on January 19, 1913, dissatisfied representatives from Vienna and Upper Austria were also involved, whereupon Neunteufel, Pantz, August Maria Kemetter , as well as the MP Eduard Hruschka , who comes from Styria and is now active in Bukovina , decided to set up their own parliamentary group with the name Deutsches Zentrum .

The First World War did not lead to any noticeable tightening, whereupon there was even a loose rapprochement with the former main party. On October 27, 1918, the party members of the German Center, who called themselves centrists, rejoined the Christian Socials as part of the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria . Thereafter, Neunteufel was a member of the aforementioned Provisional National Assembly from October 21, 1918 to February 16, 1919, but was subsequently no longer nominated for the Constituent National Assembly by the Christian Socials. One reason is said to have been the rapprochement between Neunteufel and the German Nationals and the Greater Germans , which Neunteufel had pursued due to its political isolation. On May 25, 1919, he was posted to the inter-ministerial commission for western Hungary ( Burgenland ) as a representative of the Greater Germans . After the First World War, Neunteufel came back to Vienna, where he became head of a public library. In the course of the establishment of the Fatherland Front in 1933, people in Graz remembered Neunteufel and his journalistic talent, whereupon he took over the position of press officer at the regional management of the Fatherland Front in Styria in Graz. He held this position until his death almost four years later. He died on April 18, 1937 at the age of 64 in Graz and was buried in the local St. Leonhard cemetery . Throughout his life he received several awards and was among other things a knight of the Franz Joseph Order .

character

Neunteufel was not considered an easy character. Although he was certainly very talented, he was mainly seen as choleric (see the political disputes with Hagenhofer, etc.) and also had the problem of not being able to subordinate himself. With his original connection, the KÖStV Austria Wien, he occasionally received “beer shit” (loss of beer rights) at pubs. Because of his political behavior before the First World War, there were also conflicts between him and his original connection, which, however, were settled in later years.

literature

• Michael Polgar: 100 years of K.Ö.ST.V. Kürnberg 1900–2000 . Self-published, Rohrbach 2000, p. 209 .

Web links

• Raimund Neunteufel on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Raimund Neunteufel on the official website of the Austrian Cartel Association

Individual evidence

1. ^ Matricula Online - Japons, Taufbuch, 1864-1879, page 159, entry no.28, 1st line
2. ^ Matricula Online - Graz – Graben, Sterbebuch 5, 1930–1938, page 176, entry no. 67, 3rd line