Sepp Straffner

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

Straffner Berg was a pupil at the Hallstatt salt mines, then forestry pupil in the forest administration in Goisern. He attended a school in Linz.

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

He was a member of the municipal council of Saalfelden, Member of the Tyrolean Landtag and 1918/1919 Member of the Tyrolean provincial government. He was a member of the Constituent National Assembly for German Austria in the year 1919/20. In the years 1920-1923 and 1927-1934 he was a Member of Parliament. In the years 1930-31 and 1932-33, he served as Third National President.

He was one of three National President, who had laid down their function on March 4, 1933 vote for technical reasons ( see self- dissolution of parliament ), which eased the way for the Dollfuss dictatorship. On March 15, 1933 Straffner tried to take under the revocation of his resignation on March 4, ended without formal closure of Representatives meeting again; Dollfuss had ordered the police but to prevent these " undeclared meeting " or to disperse, although many members of the Great German and the Social Democrats were already present in the boardroom. As the head of the police operation Straffner the written order of Dollfuss handed, filed a criminal complaint Straffner against Dollfuss according to § 76 Criminal Code (public violence ).

1934-1935 he was manager of the printing of the newspaper "Alpine country."