Dr. Hans Koren

Hans Koren was born in 1906 as the son of the photographer master Hans Koren. In 1927 he maturates at the Bischöflichen Gymnasium in Graz and insulates German, folk and sociology at the Karl-Franzens-Universität. In 1930 he is a founding member of the Norica Graz student association.

In 1932 he is a doctorate and becomes an assistant at the University of Salzburg. In 1936 he moved back to Graz, enters the Styrian State Service and becomes a coustos at the Landesmuseum Johanneum.

After the seizure of power of the National Socialists in 1938, the new Gauleiter considers it unacceptable. With June 1939, Hans Koren is released by forced retirement. In 1940, the compulsory retirement decision is cancelled, but it is only used as a sub-aged official. A publication ban is issued on him.

Soon after that, he will be convened to Russia, from where he returns ill in March 1944.

He then arrives at the People's Museum, is rehabilitated after the end of the war and again kisses this museum.

After the war, he is also a member of the National Council, the Head of State and President of the State. He dies in Graz in 1985.