DDr. Albert Schöpf

Albert Schöpf was born to a Tyrolean father and a Vorarlberg mother and graduated from grammar school in Bregenz in 1926. He then studied at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur. 1931), where he joined the Austria Innsbruck student fraternity in 1926. Albert Schöpf is also involved in the student interest group of the German Student Union (DSt). From 1928 to 1930, he was Chairman of the Chamber at the University of Innsbruck.

After completing his studies, Albert Schöpf completed his year in court and then moved to Linz, where he first became legal advisor to the Catholic People's Association, which was the regional branch of the Christian Social Party. At the same time, he was editor of the "Volksvereinsbote". In 1934, he joined the Linz magistrate's office.

After the Anschluss in March 1938, he was dismissed and initially worked as an unskilled laborer. In 1939, he became an employee of the Wohnungs-Aktiengesellschaft (WAG) of the Hermann-Göring-Werke (now VOEST). Shortly before the end of the war, he is drafted into the German Wehrmacht and wounded (shot in the arm).

After the end of the war in 1945, Schöpf is one of the co-founders of the Upper Austrian ÖVP, the Wirtschaftsbund and the "Turn- und Sport-Union" as the successor to the Christian-German Gymnastics Association, which he had already joined as a student. He was chairman of the Upper Austrian Union until 1948. In 1947, he was elected as successor to Josef Stampfl as ÖVP provincial party chairman and held this office until 1951. He was also a member of the National Council and later the Federal Council.