Roland Hausmann

Roland Hausmann (born August 23, 1901 in Gmunden ; † September 2, 1958 in Hochzirl , Tyrol ) was an Austrian businessman and politician ( VdU ). Hausmann was regional councilor in the Upper Austrian regional government from 1950 and 1955 .

education and profession

Hausmann attended the Gmundner Gymnasium and completed his school education with the Matura. He then studied philosophy and world trade and from 1920 worked, with interruptions, as an economic advisor to the German embassy in Bucharest. From 1941 he served in World War II and fought in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front , where he was captured by the Soviets in 1944. In 1946 he returned from captivity. Hausmann was the recipient of various German and Romanian war awards.

politics

After his return from Soviet captivity, Hausmann joined the newly founded Association of Independents and in 1950 became its district chairman in the Gmunden district . Hausmann held this function in the subsequent FPÖ until 1955 and was a member of the Gmunden municipal council from 1949. After the state election in 1949 , Hausmann was sworn in as a member of the state parliament on November 5, 1949 and succeeded Erwin Wascher as state councilor for nature conservation on June 9, 1950 . Hausmann exercised his office as a member of the state council and state parliament until November 18, 1955.

Private

Hausmann was born as the son of the chief accountant of the Forest and Domain Directorate Gmunden Otto Hausmann. His mother, Maria Elisabeth Jägerspacher came from Bucharest. He was married to Maria, nee Fuchs, and had three children. Hausmann died in the Hochzirl lung sanatorium in 1958 of double-sided, highly active lung tuberculosis and pulmonary bleeding. Despite his Catholic denomination, he was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Gmunden .

Web links

• Biography of Roland Hausmann on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .

literature

• Harry Slapnicka : Upper Austria - The political leadership from 1945 (= contributions to the contemporary history of Upper Austria. 12). Oöla, Linz 1989, ISBN 3-90031-347-4 .