Hugo Suette

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Hugo Suette (born June 27, 1903 in Graz , † 1949 in Erlangen ) was an Austrian SA leader and district leader of the Deutschlandsberg district of the NSDAP . Towards the end of the Second World War, end- phase crimes occurred in his area of ​​office , for which he was never prosecuted as the mastermind or the person primarily responsible.

Life

There is no information about Hugo Suette's early years in the literature. He had already joined the Austrian NSDAP on September 1, 1927 and had the very low membership number 54,251.

During the National Socialist July coup , Suette, with the rank of Obersturmführer, commanded Sturmbann II (Graz-West) of SA Standard 27, whose actions in the Styrian capital were unsuccessful. According to his own statements, Suette was arrested by a gendarmerie patrol on the evening of July 25, 1934 , when he was cycling from Graz-Puntigam to Graz-Eggenberg in order to personally check the execution of his orders during the SA storms under his control to convince.

On July 29th, Suette was transferred to the Graz Police Department, where he was imprisoned until August 29th. a. also because he was linked to an explosives attack. He spent the subsequent period up to his release on September 13, 1934 in the Graz Regional Court . Just one day after his release, Suette left for Yugoslavia via Hungary , where at that time numerous July Putschists who had fled Austria were living in camps in Croatia. On November 27, 1934, Suette went to Munich . From there he went to Erlangen, where he graduated from the university in 1936 . The title of his dissertation , which also laid was, was " the national struggle in southern Styria 1867-1897 ".

After the “ Anschluss ” to the German Reich in March 1938, Suette made a political comeback, which culminated in his appointment as district leader of the Deutschlandsberg district. His appointment was preceded by a power struggle between the Stainzer and the Deutschlandsberg National Socialists. The latter successfully tried to move the seat of the district leadership of the NSDAP from Stainz to Deutschlandsberg after they had made an official seat available to the district leadership free of charge.

Hugo Suette was district leader in Deutschlandsberg until the end of the war. In the final phase of the war, following his telephone order on April 1, 1945, five members of the Austrian Freedom Front - Kampfgruppe Steiermark , a militarily organized resistance group whose members went down in literature as Koralm partisans , were shown at the firing range of the RAD camp in St. Oswald in Shot outdoors . Among them was Leo Engelmann (* 1914), an Austrian fighter against Spain . Another crime that Suette ordered was the shooting of 18 people on April 10, including resistance fighter Ludwig Mooslechner , in a bomb crater on the Hebalm . The murder of five deserted soldiers on April 23, 1945 “ was most likely due to Suette's account ”.

Seven of those involved in the murders of April 1, 1945 had to answer in the context of the Graz partisan murder trial before the local People's Court in September 1946. However, Suette as the mastermind behind this crime could not be prosecuted. Since he was arrested by the British in Vienna on September 7th of this year, the deadline for his inclusion in the ongoing criminal proceedings had expired. At the beginning of November 1946 he managed to escape from the Wetzelsdorf internment camp in Graz, where he had been transferred, which is why the proceedings against him (LGS Graz, Vr 1449/99) could not be concluded. Suette reached Erlangen undetected, where he died in 1949 without ever being prosecuted for his crimes.

Works

  • Henning Volkmar (= pseudonym for Hugo Suette): Lower Styria, the German Southeast Mark . Sima-Verlag, Deutschlandsberg 1934. (44 pages)
  • The national struggle in southern Styria 1867 to 1897 (= publications by the Institute for Research into German Ethnicity in the South and Southeast in Munich and the Institute for East Bavarian Homeland Research in Passau, No. 12). Max Schick publishing house, Munich 1936.

literature

  • Hans Schafranek : Biographies of Styrian Nazi Actors. In: Herbert Blatnik, Hans Schafranek (Ed.): From the NS ban to the "Anschluss". Styrian National Socialists 1933–1938. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2015, p. 522f. (Keyword: SUETTE, Hugo ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Schafranek: Summer party with prize shooting. The unknown history of the Nazi putsch in July 1934. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7076-0081-5 , pp. 301–320: Document 15: “ Report by Hans Schön regarding SA Standard 27 in July 1934 ”, here pp. 303–307 with the Suettes report, which forms part of this document.
  2. ↑ Werner Tscherne: From Lonsperch to Deutschlandsberg. Self-published by the municipality of Deutschlandsberg, undated (1990), p. 422.
  3. ↑ The location of this crime ( ⊙ ) is not marked, but is still recognizable in the area.
  4. ↑ Schafranek, Biografien , p. 523. However, the author does not provide any further details on this end-phase crime.
  5. ↑ Martin F. Polaschek : In the name of the Republic of Austria! The People's Courts in Styria 1945 to 1955 (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, Volume 23). Graz 1998, ISBN 3-901938-01-X , p. 160, footnote 514 with reference to the state police wanted notice dated December 2, 1946.
  6. ↑ See also http://www.karawankenbegrenz.at/ferenc/index.php?r=documentshow&id=1 (accessed on August 1, 2018), where it is pointed out that this document was also presented to high-ranking Nazi personalities .
personal data
SURNAME Suette, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SA leader and district leader
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death gain