Rolph Trummer

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Rolph (Rudolf) Trummer (born April 19, 1890 in Dietersdorf bei Straden , † September 17, 1954 in Graz ) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( VF ).

Life

Trummer was born in Dietersdorf as the son of a farmer and businessman. From 1910 he studied law at the University of Graz . In 1914 he volunteered for military service with the artillery and served in the First World War from 1915 to 1918 on the Southwest Front . He achieved the rank of first lieutenant. During the war, in 1917, he received his doctorate.

After a court year, Trummer worked as a lawyer from April 1922, particularly in the field of agriculture and forestry as well as agricultural, commercial and industrial credit. In 1930 he opened his own law firm. Among other things, he was a member of the State and Federal Chamber of Commerce as well as a board member of the Catholic Press Association of Styria and a committee member of the Christian-German Academic Association and committee member of the Bar Association. He was a committed member of the Catholic student union K.Ö.HV Carolina Graz in the ÖCV . On November 1, 1934, Rolph Trummer became a member of the State Council (until March 4, 1938). From 1934 to 1938 he was also chief curator of the Styrian State Mortgage Institution.

Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg put Trummer at the head of Styria shortly before the Anschluss. Trummer was Provincial Councilor of Styria from March 3rd to 11th, 1938 and in the same period, instead of Karl Maria Stepan , Governor of Styria. During the "annexation" of Austria to the Nazi state and the takeover of power by the National Socialists, he - like the entire government - was forced to resign on the night of March 12, 1938.

According to the decree of the new rulers of September 27, 1939, Trummer was placed on the list of deleted lawyers. In 1939 he moved to Vienna . After the assassination attempt in the Bürgerbräukeller in November 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo . In January 1940 he was released again.

After the end of the war, Trummer returned to Graz and resumed his legal practice. From 1946 to 1954 he was a judge and member of the Austrian Constitutional Court .

literature

  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 248 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matricula Online - Straden, Taufbuch 17, 1890–, page 13, entry no. 100, 2nd line.
  2. ↑ a b State Councilor Dr. Trummer Governor of Styria. In:  Salzburger Chronik. Tagblatt with the illustrated supplement “Austrian Week” , March 4, 1938, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch
  3. ^ Biography of Rolph Trummer (page 35, footnote 73) ( Memento from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) History of the Landeshypothekenanstalt Steiermark.
  4. ^ A b Susanne Pöschl: History of the Styrian Bar Association ( memento from October 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Styrian Bar Association.
  5. ^ Biography of the members of the government ( Memento of March 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ Former members of the Constitutional Court from 1945 on the Constitutional Court's website (accessed on October 23, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Trummer, Rolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trummer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dietersdorf near Straden
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1954
Place of death Graz