- Alfons Gorbach
Infobox Chancellor
name=Alfons Gorbach
nationality=Austrian
order=Chancellor of Austria
term_start=April 11 ,1961
term_end=April 2 ,1964
predecessor=Julius Raab
successor=Josef Klaus
birth_date=September 2 ,1898
birth_place=Imst /Tyrol,Austria
death_date =July 31 1972
death_place =Graz /Styria,Austria
party=ÖVP
religion=Alfons Gorbach (
September 2 ,1898 ,Imst –July 31 ,1972 ,Graz ) was anAustria n politician who served asChancellor of Austria from 1961-64.From 1929-32, Gorbach was a municipal councillor in Graz. After the
Anschluss with Germany in 1938, Gorbach was held as a political prisoner at Dachau from 1938-42, and again at Flossenburg from 1944 until the end ofWorld War II .A member of the
Austrian People's Party , Gorbach was president of theNational Council of Austria from 1945-53 and again from 1956-61. After his three years as Chancellor, he returned to the National Council where he served until 1970.External links
* [http://www.wienerzeitung.at/linkmap/personen/gorbach.htm Wiener Zeitung biography (German)] aeiou|.g/g568123.htm (German)
* [http://www.parlinkom.gv.at/portal/page?_pageid=907,174613&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&P_PAD=B Austrian Parliament official biography (German)]
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