On January 26, the state of Upper Austria commemorates the 130th birthday of its governor, Heinrich Philipp Gleißner, who has served the longest at a total of 29.5 years. He is often referred to as the “founding father” of modern Upper Austria. And who was recently accused of his political involvement during the Austrofascist period from 1933 to 1938 in a report by the Linz Street Names Commission.
When Gleißner was born in Linz on January 26, 1893, the son of a worker in the Krauss locomotive factory in Linz and the daughter of a farmer in the Innviertel, the Emperor was still reigning. The later governor grew up with five sisters in humble circumstances. When World War I broke out while studying law in 1914, he was drafted into a regiment in South Tyrol, where the young lieutenant distinguished himself in bitter combat.
Source: Krone
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