DI Alfred Klimesch

Alfred Klimesch is born as the son of a naval superstitious physician and in 1914, as a nearly five-year-old in the port of Trieste, experiences the transfer of the corpse of the pair of throne followers. After the father died in 1910, the mother and the children relocated to Linz in May 1915 after the war in Italy. There Alfred Klimesch visits the Gymnasium.

After the Matura with award, Alfred Klimesch begins studying electrical engineering at the Technical University in Vienna (Dipl.-Ing. 1932), where he joined the Norica student association. At the end of his studies, Alfred Klimesch enters the service of Oberösterreichische Kraftwerke AG (OKA) and works at a retraining facility.

At the beginning of 1934, Klimesch changes to Radio-Verkehrs AG (RAVAG), the predecessor of the ORF, and is technical director of the broadcaster Linz. At the July-Putsch of the National Socialists in 1934, the broadcaster Linz has to enter for broadcasts throughout Austria after the Viennese radio house of NS-Putschisten is temporarily occupied. Thus, the broadcaster Linz must correct the radio call messages. In 1935, Alfred Klimesch is appointed as the general manager of the broadcaster Linz. In this time, this is being developed into a powerful radio station, in order to prevent the broadcast propaganda from Nazi Germany.

As the evening of the 11th March 1938 Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg resigns, the radio stations are also taken over by the National Socialists. Alfred Klimesch must continue his service under supervision as head of the Linzer Sender. Around 2 o'clock in the morning of 12. On behalf of the Upper Austrian Gauleiter August Eigruber, Anton Fellner announced on behalf of the Linzer Sender that the “Machtergriffung” in the whole country had gone “in complete tranquility and discipline”. On March 12th, Alfred Klimesch is to design the report on Hitler's arrival in Linz on the orders of the SS, but refuses to do the technical management of the report because of the lack of personal alternatives. On 13 March, he will be taken leave and later released for political reasons.

Alfred Klimesch then finds a position at Telefunken Berlin, which has expanded the Linzer Sender under his direction. In 1939 he was moved to the German Air Force, where he was employed in Flensburg in 1945. There he goes to British prisoners of war, from which he can return in autumn.

After that, Alfred Klimesch resigns to the service of the OKA and is an industrial engineer in Gmunden, where he will soon become a specialist. Finally, he becomes Director-General of the OKA and is President of the Association of Electricity Enterprises of Austria from 1974 to 1977.

In the late sixties and in the first half of the seventies, Alfred Klimesch is one of the leading personalities of the nationalized Austrian energy industry.