Pfrimer, Walter#
b. Maribor, Slovenia (then Marburg), Dec. 22, 1881, d. Judenburg (Styria), May 30, 1968, lawyer and politician (Heimwehr - para-military force, National Socialist). Founded 1918 the "German People´s Council in Upper Styria" and co-founded the armed "local militia" ("Ortswehren") in 1918. 1922 with H. B. Rauter established the "Styrian Federation of Self-Defence", which on July 15, 1927 helped to suppress the transport strike. 1928 P. became 2nd federal leader of the Heimwehr (representative of the pan-German line), conflicts with E. R. Starhemberg (from May 1931 again his deputy), on September 12, 1931, initiated the coup Pfrimer-Putsch, in an attempt to put the Heimwehr into power. After the coup failed, fled to Maribor; in Dec. 1931 was acquitted. P. established contact between the Styrian Heimatschutz (home defence) and the NSDAP, which he joined in 1933 and became a member of the Pan-German Reichstag in 1938. 1945-1947 was imprisoned, later worked again as a lawyer.