Hofrat Dr. Erich Kneußl

Erich Kneußl visits the Volksschule in Schwaz and as a 12-year-old changes to the gymnasium of the Benedictines in Merano. After the Matura, he insulates the study of law at the University of Innsbruck in 1904. In 1905 he joined the student association Austria Innsbruck.

After the doctorate he enters the regional service He is sent to Lienz in 1909 for the three-year concept internship and taken as an official. Between 1912 and 1914, he changes the place of service and is initially transferred to Cles as a k.k. governor's iconic zipist, and in 1914 he will be appointed as district commissioner in Mezzolombardo (Welsch-Metz). Because he was classified as “non-armament” in 1907, he does not have to move in the First World War. At the age of 33, in 1917, he was transferred to Ampezzo District Headquarters [later Cortina d’Ampezzo].

After the First World War, he is appointed District Chief of Lienz. Here he stays with his family until 1931. In 1927 he was elected as a representative of the Tyrolean Farmers' Federation in the National Council in Vienna and in 1933–1936 he became the first representative of the Tyrolean Farmers' Federation. After dissolution of the National Council, he is appointed to the Federal Council in 1934 and belongs to the Federal Economic Council until 1938. He is also a member of the VF. His family moves to Hall/Tirol and he swings between his home and Vienna. He is important for work in and for Tyrol, so he has rejected offers for a job in a ministry.

After joining, Erich Kneußl dienstenthoben and was forced to retire in 1939 with a reduction in the remunerations. Because of his age and because his sons are employed on the front, he is not moved to the German Wehrmacht. Because he is denied activities as a lawyer or a tax assistant, he is concerned with monumental protection.

After the assassination of Adolf Hitler on 20.7.1944, Erich Kneußl was arrested on 23.8.1944 for his political attitude and transferred to the AEL Innsbruck-Reichenau, but was released again on 28.9.1944 for his bile suffering.

After the war, he was first a state commissioner for direct federal affairs in 1945–1946, then a state office director and 1947–1951 head of the Tyrol office of the Federal Chancellery in Innsbruck.