POLITICAL SITUATION IN TYROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000100800009-7
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 4, 1946
• Content Type: IR

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in Tyrol is fast lowing ground as the rosult of bad. 1eadaz~smhip. With
tag era resignation from the ahairaaarship? this leadership question
in oc into the foregrounds As a result of this leek of any suitable
ore, possessing the necessary political experience and siasulteneously
tug the respect of the variour groupingsD the party is today torn by
rigues of aeoond-rate politician thirsting for power.
head of the intriguers is Professor Dr, Gemper? At the annual oon-
of the 4AAB (Qesterreiohlssoher Arboiter. rand Angeetell';;er-Bund) s
ber l948 Gemper succeeded in conssolidaating his position. He was resin
oha,.r an and aged to remove his opponent? tnnshruokes Deputy Mayor
from the vies-chair hip in favor of a simple worker, a certain Brier.
however,, remains an the executive board of the OAABQ Another opponent
ar a s, a certain Tipotssah.D was removod from the executive board. G raper
d st reverse when his c idaate for chief executive officeera, Brnet
esae passed over in favor of Reiner of the Labor Chawbor. In genet alg
D the outcome of the conference is sa viotory of t por e a reactionary,
Pver the more progressive wing
ecored another victory when, at a session of the executive board of
he was appointed acting chairman of the psarty,? .pending the appoint-
a successor to Dro Pl*tzgi ors The poet of acting chairman should
ue to Landcsarat Muigg9 the peasant 2eeeder,9 an first deputy of ix ;
r waited until. thee very and of the meeting, when Uuigg and his friends
t, before raising the question of the temporary chairmanship. As a
of this maneuver, he got the eppoin went?
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against him is the "grey em3 nenoee ? of the APP In, Tyrol9 Ham Bador,25X1 A6a
who discovered and made Kurt Schusahnigg. Bador is sponsoring Dr.
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Letncaeshau iann Weiasgatterer refused to cam it himself'. He merely assured
damper would not be eleectcnd,,
The: elooti n of the new chvirvian is due to. take place at the annual APP le=~
~,ateese t;onfrence, Echedulod for 17 November 1:74G0 Both Chancellor Fi;l acrd
State Secretary Graf hive announced their intention of visiting, the Tyrol -to,
attend thi conference,,
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Major Moll n `Ls another oil' the intri;;uers8 Ni: closest associates today are
)rte Iiaaus 13 who sttaekc:c Gruber in f rout of the Innsbruck Laudhaus on 27
September ?9' biz, d Landes:rat Or,- Oberhofe- ; who is about to retire from the
Tyrolean Cl v oia,list i'a.rty
's'ite I' is 4 rofitin;; from the present disintegration of the APP. It has re-
neived s, tr emeitdous boost throu :h its overvrhelmins success in the railroad
cr:t;>loyeeesr' a .ectionr ;nd is convinced that it will be returned to power at
the next rtes:i?al elvuTions,, Today it isb. seeking to in over some of the more
respected Pint., progressive AP:' sup ,or?tert iy assuring theta that the forth-
coming ,,oe allst ;ovcrrwtent will be drawn exclusively from the party's moder-
ate wing li), this it is moetin with a certain sutcceess; some of those whom
it has a,pp of-~c;he d argttn that it is better to seek to exercise a restraining
influence an the al' then to continue their vain attempts to resuscitate the
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Local reoraa is dceterinratIng d i.l;r On top of the blow concerning the status
of the Son -1h Tyrol void the oe; ,r~st:rophic food situation, oarc-e the el.ec:tric
power Cris s