Dr. Alfred Maleta

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Alfred Maleta (ÖVfStG)

Personalia

Born:

January 15, 1906, Mödling

Died:

January 16, 1990, Salzburg

Profession:

President of the National Council

Persecution:

Imprisonment 13.03.1938 - 03.06.1938,
Dachau concentration camp 03.06.1938 - fall 1939,
Flossenbürg concentration camp, fall 1939 - 1940,
Dachau concentration camp 1940 - 12.11.1940

Honors:

Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria

Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Decoration of Honor in Gold of the Province of Upper Austria

Professional title Professor

Honorary citizen of Vienna

Memberships

K.Ö.H.V. Carolina Graz, K.Ö.St.V. Nibelungia 1901 Linz, ÖVP Comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria

Curriculum Vitae

After the family was relocated from Vienna in 1920, Alfred Maleta visits the Academic Gymnasium in Linz. In 1922 he joined the middle school Nibelungia Linz . After the Matura, Alfred Maleta goes to Graz in 1927 to study Jus. He closes the student connection there in 1927 Carolina on. In 1932 he holds a PhD in Law and leaves Graz to complete the legal year.

Since his efforts to take part in the regional service remain unsuccessful, he takes the offer as deputy and then as managing director of the Fatherland front in OÖ. Later, he becomes secretary (Kammeramtsdirektor) of the Chamber for Workers and Employees in OÖ and senior secretary of the National Cartel of the Trade Union Federation.

After the occupation of Austria by Hitler Germany, Alfred Maleta will be on 13. March 1938 in Linz arrested by the SS. He arrives with the third Austrian transport on 3. June 1938 in KZ Dachau. The love for his connection is so great that he together with his federal brothers Josef Aigner, Walter Nestor and Friedrich Funder on 18 August 1938 on the occasion of the 50th Carolina's founding day in the canteen of the concentration camp, unnoticed by the guard staff and by the other inmates, holds a “fixed-off”. He ends the “comers” with the words “Austria erit in orbe ultima”.

In the autumn of 1939 he becomes KZ Flossenbürg moved back to Dachau in 1940 and on 12. November 1940 released to Graz, but must report to the Gestapo every three days. In the period of detention, together with also imprisoned social democrats, he plans to re-establish the Second Republic. It will soon be moved to the mountain hunters after the arrest and used on the east front.

After the liberation of Austria, Alfred Maleta is appointed Deputy Head of the OÖ Regional Labour Office and soon thereafter taken over to the Ministry of Social Affairs, to which he belongs until his retirement, most recently as Head of Section. He enters ÖVP-Cameraditure of Politically Persecuted and Bekenner for Austria . He is a well-known and respected politician, among others as Secretary General of the ÖVP (1951–1960), as NR Director (1945–1975) and as President of the National Council (1962–1970) and Vice-President (1970–1975). In 1981 he was appointed honorary citizen of the city of Vienna.

He dies in Salzburg at 84 years and finds his last resting place at the Wiener Zentralfriedhof..

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Multimedia

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Citations

Krause, Peter/Reinelt, Herbert/Schmitt, Helmut (2020): Farbe tragen, Farbe bekennen. Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung. Teil 2. Kuhl, Manfred (ÖVfStG, Wien) S. 210/211.

Alfred Maleta

President of the National Council
* January 15, 1906
Mödling
† January 16, 1990
Salzburg
Detention, Concentration camp