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Rudolf Kopf (born May 15, 1890 in Altach , Vorarlberg , Austria-Hungary , † November 18, 1971 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP , later VdU / FPÖ ).

Life

Kopf, who began to study law in Graz, took part in the First World War in Galicia and South Tyrol . 1918 doctorate he attended the University of Innsbruck for Dr. jur and entered the service of the Vorarlberg state government the following year. After the " Anschluss of Austria " he became governor of the National Socialist state government until he was transferred to Aussig in the Sudetenland as an administrative officer in 1940 . After the Second World War he was interned by the French occupying forces in the former Lochau satellite camp . In 1949 the student association Traungau Graz , to which he had belonged since 1912, initiated an exclusion procedure at the request of the ÖCV , which he anticipated when he left.

In 1949 he was a co-founder of the VdU Vorarlberg, whose chairman he became. In the same year head was in the National Assembly elected in 1954 and the provincial government appointed. He occupied this position from 1956 for the VdU successor party FPÖ until 1959.

literature

• Ulrich Nachbaur : cand. Phil. Wilhelm Ender vulgo Ketsch (1881 to 1918). On the life and afterlife of an "eternal student" (=  Alemannia Studens. Messages from the Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History . Volume 11 ). Regensburg 2003, p. 126 , short curriculum vitae of Rudolf Kopf in footnote 84 ( full text [PDF; accessed on February 23, 2017]).

Web links

• Rudolf Kopf on the website of the Austrian Parliament