Sepp Straffner

Sepp Straffner (born January 31, 1875 in Goisern ; † October 29, 1952 there ) was an Austrian Federal Railroad official and politician of the Greater German People's Party .

Straffner was a mountain pupil at Hallstätter Salzberg, then a forest pupil in the forest administration in Goisern . He attended a grammar school in Linz .

From 1899 to 1907 he was an executive officer in the Tyrolean and Salzburg route service of the State Railway Directorate Innsbruck . He studied law at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck (doctorate in 1913). Straffner was active in the Schönerer movement .

He was a member of the Saalfelden municipal council , a member of the Tyrolean state parliament and from 1918/1919 a member of the Tyrolean state government. In August 1919 he became a founding member of the Tyrolean Anti-Semite Association together with Richard Steidle, who later became the Heimwehr leader . Straffner was a member of the Constituent National Assembly for German Austria in 1919/20 . From 1920 to 1923 and 1927 to 1934 he was a member of the National Council . From 1930–31 and 1932–33 he was the third president of the National Council.

He was one of the three presidents of the National Council who resigned from their position on March 4, 1933 for reasons of voting (see Parliament's self- elimination ), which made the path to the Dollfuss dictatorship easier. On March 15, 1933, Straffner tried to resume the meeting of the National Council, which ended on March 4 without a formal closure, while withdrawing his resignation; Dollfuss had ordered the police to prevent or disperse this “unregistered meeting”, even though many members of the Greater Germans and the Social Democrats were already present in the meeting room. Since the head of the police operation gave Straffner the written order to Dollfuss, Straffner filed a criminal complaint against Dollfuss under Section 76 of the Criminal Law (public violence).

1934–1935 he was the administrator of the printing works for the daily newspaper “Alpenland”.

Web links

• Sepp Straffner on the website of the Austrian Parliament
• Entry on Sepp Straffner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Niko Hofinger: "Our slogan is: Tyrol for the Tyroleans!" Anti-Semitism in Tyrol 1918–1938 . ( academia.edu [accessed December 4, 2018]).