Sepp Helfrich (7 July 1900 – 27 January 1963) was an Austrian

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and briefly the Landeshauptman (Governor) of Styria.

Biography

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and

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, the grammar school in

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and the secondary school in

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. Helfrich completed his military service in 1918 in Italy. He studied at agronomy and construction at the

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until 1921 and subsequently studied at the

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Vienna