Sepp Helfrich (7 July 1900 – 27 January 1963) was an
Austrian
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National Socialist
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and briefly the Landeshauptman (Governor) of Styria.
Biography
After a spending time at the elementary schools in Weißkirchen (present-day
Bela Crkva, Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia),
Krems an der Donau
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and
Göllersdorf
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Geography
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, the grammar school in
Stockerau
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and the secondary school in
Graz.
Helfrich completed his military service in 1918 in Italy. He studied at agronomy and construction at the
Graz University of Technology
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until 1921 and subsequently studied at the
Hochschule für Bodenkultur in
Vienna
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Helfrich finished his studies in 1926 with an Engineering degree. He was a member of the
Verein Deutscher Studenten (German Student's Club) in Graz while he was in college. In 1928 he then working in the Agricultural Technology Service of the Landeshauptmannschaft Graz.
In March 1937, Helfrich was arrested for National Socialist activities. He was immediately released after the
Anschluss
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The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a " Greater Germany ...
and was appointed as governor of
Steiermark on 12 March 1938. However, he was only in this office for a short time, until 22 May 1938. He then served in the
National Socialist Reichstag. He was arrested for his National Socialist past in 1945, but did not receive any severe sanction or punishment. He was active in the Styrian state government in Graz as an Agricultural planner from 1949 to 1963.
References
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1900 births
1963 deaths
Austrian Nazis
Austrian prisoners and detainees
Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
People from Lugoj
Governors of Styria
Prisoners and detainees of Austria