Sepp Helfrich
| Sepp Helfrich | |
|---|---|
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| Governor of Styria | |
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In office 12 March 1938 – 22 May 1938 | |
| Preceded by | Rolph Trummer |
| Succeeded by | Siegfried Uiberreither |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 7, 1900 Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary |
| Died |
January 27, 1963 (aged 62) Graz, Austria |
| Political party | NSDAP |
Sepp Helfrich (July 7, 1900 (Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary) - January 27, 1963, Graz, Austria) was an Austrian National Socialist and briefly the Landeshauptman (Governor) of Styria.
Biography
After a spending time at the elementary schools in Weißkirchen (Serbian: Bela Crkva), Krems an der Donau and Göllersdorf, the grammar school in Stockerau and the secondary school in Graz, Sepp Helfrich completed military service in 1918 in Italy. He studied at agronomy and construction at the Graz University of Technology until 1921 and subsequently studied at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna. He finished his studies in 1926 with an Engineering degree. He was a member of the Verein Deutscher Studenten (German Student's Club) in Graz while he was in college.[1] In 1928 he then working in the Agricultural Technology Service of the Landeshauptmannschaft Graz.
In March 1937 he was arrested for National Socialist activities. He was immediately pardoned after the Anschluss and was appointed as governor of Steiermark on March 12, 1938. However, he was only in this office for a short time, until May 22, 1938. He then served in the National Socialist Reichstag.
Helfrich would then be arrested for his National Socialist past in 1945. After his dismissal, he was active in the Styrian state government in Graz as an Agricultural planner from 1949 to 1963.[2]
References
- ↑ Louis Lange (Hrsg.): Kyffhäuser-Verband der Vereine Deutscher Studenten. Anschriftenbuch 1931. Berlin 1931, S. 86.
- ↑ Anton Peter Petri (1992) (in German), Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums, Marquartstein: Th. Breit Druck + Verlag GmbH, pp. 2198, ISBN 3-922046-76-2