Josef Auinger

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Josef Auinger (born December 1, 1897 in Enzendorf , Gallspach municipality , Upper Austria; † May 11, 1961 in Grieskirchen , Austria) was an Austrian criminal investigator and National Socialist. He worked as SS-Obersturmbannführer in the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and led SS special commandos in the National Socialist war of extermination.

Life

Josef Auinger studied law after graduating from high school and took part in the First World War. In 1923 he took up his service at the Vienna Security Guard and became a police lawyer in the police station on Ottakring . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP, which had been banned in Austria since 1933 . In his role as security officer for the commissioner's office, he thwarted the prosecution of the National Socialists' illegal activities by obstructing investigations and providing information and warnings to National Socialists who were being investigated. In contrast, he directed the police officers to intensify the prosecution of social democrats and communists. In socialist circles he was also notorious as a "whipping commissioner". From 1934 he was a member of the SS , where he subsequently belonged to the illegal SS Standard 89.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in March 1938, Auinger made a career with the Gestapo . On the night of March 11th to March 12th, 1938, he had usurped the authority of the head of the commissariat and had "communists", "social democrats" and other political opponents arrested without official commission. After several weeks of management activity at the Gestapo in St. Pölten , he moved to the Vienna State Police Control Center in April 1938, where he became Head of Department (II A 2). After his doctorate as Dr. jur. In 1939 he was promoted to the government council and took over the management of the Gestapo branch in St. Pölten. With the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer he belonged to the security service of the Reichsführer SS . From 1940 he worked again at the Vienna State Police Headquarters and in 1942 became deputy head of the Salzburg and Linz Gestapo. From July 1942 to October 1942 he was in charge of SS-Sonderkommando 7b at Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police and the SD in the area of ​​German Army Group B and Army Group Center in Belarus . From December 1942 he was employed as a senior government councilor under the command of the Security Police and the SD Prague at the State Police Headquarters in Prague and soon afterwards was also working as an inspector of the non-uniform Protectorate Police in Bohemia. In 1944 he came as Obersturmbannführer to SS-Einsatzkommando 7 in Pécs in Hungary. He then worked for three months in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in the information department .

After the war he was arrested on September 20, 1945 in Peuerbach . In 1947 he was extradited to the USSR by the Western Allies. In 1956 he returned to Austria from a Soviet prisoner of war and was no longer held accountable for his crimes in Austria due to the late return amnesty.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Weisz: The Nazi takeover of power in the Vienna district police commissioners. In: Studies on Viennese History 49 (1993), pp. 195–212. Wolfgang Neugebauer: Repression apparatus and measures 1933-1938. In: Emmerich Tálos u. Wolfgang Neugebauer (Ed.): Austrofaschismus. Politics - Economy - Culture 1933-1938. 5th edition, Münster 2005, p. 312. Resistance and persecution in Vienna 1933-1945. A documentation . Vol. 1, 1934-1938 . Vienna 1984, p. 282.
  2. ↑ Weisz: Nazi takeover of power , p. 202.
  3. ↑ a b biography overview. Josef Auinger, Dr. on https://e-gov.ooe.gv.at
  4. ↑ Rolf Steininger and Ingrid Böhler (Ed.): Dealing with the Holocaust. Europe - USA - Israel. Vienna 1994, p. 194f.
personal data
SURNAME Auinger, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, SS leader and Gestapo employee
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Gallspach
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1961
Place of death Grieskirchen