!!!Kollmann, Josef

b. Ljubljana, Slovenia (then Laibach), Oct. 23, 1868, 
d. Baden (Lower Austria), June 16, 1951, politician (Christian Social 
Party), merchant. 1919-1934 Mayor of Baden, 1919-1920 member of the 
Constituent National Assembly, 1920-1934 member of the Nationalrat, 
1926 Minister of Finance. Initiated the construction of the Baden 
Casino, opposed the corporative state. In 1940 the National Socialists 
tried him in vain for alleged misuse of official authority and 
misappropriation of the money in the so-called "K-Fonds" entrusted to 
him.

!Literature
Der Prozess K., ed. by J. K., 1946; H. Meissner, J. K. 
(1868-1951), 2000.



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