Walter Pfrimer

Walter Pfrimer was an Austrian lawyer, a nationalist politician and leader of the paramilitary Heimwehr in Styria. He was the leader of a failed putsch in 1931 and, though charged with treason, he was acquitted. His movement lost influence to the Nazi Party and he became an advocate for union with Germany. After the Anschluss took place, he sat as a deputy in the Reichstag from 1938 until May 1945. Interned for a year after the end of the Second World War, he was released and returned to private legal practice.