!!!Pirchegger, Anton

Pirchegger, Anton, b.  Leopersdorf/Allerheiligen im Muerztal, 
Styria, June 5, 1885, died Leopersdorf, March 1, 1949, farmer and 
politician (Christian Socialist Party, later OeVP). Member of the 
''Nationalrat ''1920-31, 1934-38 president of the Styrian Provicial 
Diet; from 1938 until 1945 farmer, from May 1945 ''Landesrat'' 
(provincial minister) for food supply and agriculture, while 
continuing to work as a farmer, from December 1945 until 1948 
Provincial Governor of Styria (also in charge of food supply and 
agriculture), retired for health reasons a few months before his 
death.

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Literatur: Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon.


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