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Theodor Körner
b. 24 Apr 1873, Uj Szönyi bei Komorn/Komárom, Kingdom of Hungary [1]
d. 4 Jan 1957, Vienna, Austria |
| Title: |
Bundespräsident (Federal President) |
| Term: |
21 Jun 1951 - 4 Jan 1957 |
| Chronology: |
27 May 1951, elected by direct popular voting [2, pp. 4-5] |
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21 Jun 1951, took the oath of office, session of the sixth Bundesversammlung (Federal Assembly), Großer Sitzungssaal des Parlaments, Parlamentsgebäude, Vienna [3] |
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4 Jan 1957, died [4] |
| Names/titles: |
Edler von Siegringen [from 1900] |
| Biography: |
| Born in the family of Theodor Karl Körner Edler von Siegringen, military officer; attended school at Kratzau and vocational school at Reichenberg; entered high military school at Mährisch-Weißkirchen (Hranice na Moravĕ); studied at the military academy and war school at Vienna; commissioned lieutenant (1894), promoted to major (1904); attained the rank of lietenant-colonel before the beginning of World War I; appointed chief of staff of the of the XV Corps at the Isonzo Front, with the rank of colonel (1915); was repeatedly decorated; active in planning the campaigns along the Italian-Slovenian border; head of a bureau at the war ministry charged with the re-organization of the
army; inspector general (from 1923) of the Armed Forces; retired in the rank of general (1924); joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei, SDAP); elected member of the Bundesrat (1924-1934); military adviser for the Schutzbund, a Socialist paramilitary organization; served as Chairman of the Bundesrat (1 Dec 1933 - 17 Feb 1934); was briefly imprisoned after the abortive 1934 coup for his Schutzbund activities; prosecuted on political charges and detained by the Nazi (1944); joined the Socialist Party (Sozialistische Partei Österreichs, SPÖ); elected member of the Nationalrat (1945-1951); appointed mayor of Vienna (1945-1951) by the Soviet occupation authorities; elected Bundespräsident (served 21 Jun 1951 - 4 Jan 1957); died in office (4 Jan 1957). Biography source: [5] |
| Elections: |
| Candidate |
Popular vote (6 May 1951) |
Popular vote (27 May 1951) |
| Heinrich Gleißner |
1,725,451 |
2,006,322 |
| Theodor Körner |
1,682,881 |
2,178,631 |
| Burghard Breitner |
662,501 |
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| Gottlieb Fiala |
219,969 |
— |
| Johannes Ude |
5,413 |
— |
| Ludovica Hainisch, geb. Marchet |
2,132 |
— |
| invalid votes |
72,227 |
188,241 |
| total number of votes cast |
4,370,574 |
4,373,194 |
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| Source for election results: [2, pp. 4-5] |
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| [1] |
Now Komorn/Komárom is divided into two towns situated on both banks of the Danube: Komárno (Slovakia) and Komárom (Hungary). |
| [2] |
"Bundespräsidentenwahl vom 25. April 2004" (Bundesministerium für Inneres, 2004) |
| [3] |
Arbeiter Zeitung, Nummer 141, Freitag, 22. Juni 1951. |
| [4] |
Arbeiter Zeitung, Nummer 4, Samstag, 5. Jänner 1957. |
| [5] |
Österreich-Lexikon (web site). |
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Image: photograph (c. 1950), Präsidentschaftskanzlei, Vienna. |
