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Alois Vogt (19 July 1906 – 23 March 1988) was a lawyer and political figure from Liechtenstein who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1938 to 1945. He later served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1949 to 1966.
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Alois Vogt (19 July 1906 – 23 March 1988) was a lawyer and political figure from Liechtenstein who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1938 to 1945. He later served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1949 to 1966.
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Early life Vogt was born on 19 July 1906 in Balzers as the son of farmer Josef Kaspar and Magdalena Theresia Gstöhl as one of six children. He attended Realschule in Vaduz and from 1928 went on to study law in Innsbruck, Freiburg im Breisgau and Vienna, where he received a diploma in 1933. He proceeded to open his own law firm in Vaduz.
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Career Vogt was a co-founder of the Liechtenstein Homeland Service in 1933. This party and the Christian-Social People's Party merged to form the Patriotic Union in 1936 and Vogt was placed as the party secretary. He was also the editor of the Liechtensteiner Vaterland from 1937 to 1938. In 1937, he was the defending lawyer of Carl Freiherr von Vogelsang after he publicly denounced Jews living in Liechtenstein and sent numerous letters detailing them to officials in Nazi Germany. As a result, prime minister Josef Hoop ordered the offices of the Vaterland to be searched for any letters to be confiscated. Members of the Patriotic Union called for Hoop to resign over the issue, but he was later acquitted of any wrong-doing. In March 1938 the Patriotic Union entered a coalition government with the governing Progressive Citizens' Party. As a result, Vogt was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein under Josef Hoop, replacing Anton Frommelt. He served in the position until Hoop's resignation in 1945. Despite being a member of the coalition, Vogt retained contacts within Nazi Germany before and during World War II, most of which was informal. He held particular contact with the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, who regarded…
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Personal life Vogt married Beate Hussak (26 May 1924 – 2012) on 9 October 1948 and they had six children together. Vogt died on 23 March 1988 in Vaduz, at the age of 81 years old. He and his wife are buried at the cemetery of Vaduz.
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Bibliography Vogt, Paul (1987). 125 Jahre Landtag (in German). Vaduz: Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
