!!!Hammerstein-Equord, Hans

b. Sitzenthal Castle (municipality of Loosdorf, Lower Austria), Oct. 5, 1881, 
d. Pernlehen bei Micheldorf in Oberoesterreich (Upper Austria), Aug. 
9, 1947, civil servant, poet. Founder and president of the Innviertel 
Artists' Guild. Civil servant, in 1934 Chief of Security for Upper 
Austria, in 1934-1935 Staatssekretaer for Security Issues, Minister of 
Justice in 1936; 1935-1938 president of the Austrian  P. E. N. Club, 
imprisonment in 1944/45. Wrote romantic poetry dealing largely with 
nature, historical novels, novellas and non-fiction.

!Works
Novels: Ritter, Tod und Teufel, 1921; Die gelbe Mauer, 1936. - 
Die Asen, 1928 (epic); Oesterreichs kulturelles Antlitz, 1935; 
Frauenschuh und andere Maerchen, 1936; Im Anfang war der Mord, ed. by 
H. Slapnicka, 1981 (autobiography).

!Literature
E. Schiffkorn, H. v. H.-E., doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 
1982; NDB.



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