!!!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.



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