Leo Gotzmann

Leo Gotzmann

Leo Gotzmann (born July 14, 1893 in Olmütz ; † December 7, 1945 in Zuffenhausen ) was an Austrian lawyer and at the time of National Socialism, Police President of Vienna , SS-Brigadführer (1942) and member of the Reichstag .

biography

Gotzmann was the son of an Austrian NCO. After attending elementary and secondary school, studied law at the University of Vienna . After completing his studies, he took part in the First World War as a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army - most recently with the rank of lieutenant . The doctor of law joined the Austrian police in 1920 and worked at the Vienna police headquarters. From 1924 to 1933 he worked for the Vienna Security Guard and acted as the commander of the security guard and the alarm department . Because Nazi operation Gotzmann was again treated in August 1933 to the Police Headquarters in Vienna and after the July Putsch in connection with the end of July 1934 Dollfuß arrested -Attentat. In March 1935, Gotzmann was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason .

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , he was released from prison and returned to the police force in Vienna. Most recently he held the rank of senior government councilor for the police chief in Vienna. Gotzmann became a member of the Reichstag , to which he was a member until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945. Gotzmann had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1938 ( membership number 6.186.278) and was accepted into the SS as SS-Standartenführer in April 1941 (SS number 393.298). He was initially acting and from January 1941 until the end of the war he was the full police chief of Vienna. Gotzmann was an SS leader in the RSHA from April 20, 1941 to 1945, and was promoted to SS-Brigadführer on November 9, 1942 . In the course of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he surrendered to Wehrmacht officers without resistance , together with the Higher SS and Police Leader Rudolf Querner and the Deputy Gauleiter Karl Scharizer .

After the end of the war, Gotzmann was in the Zuffenhausen internment camp , where, according to the American Legal Division, he died of natural causes on December 7, 1945. Lilla et al. give as the date of death December 6, 1946.

literature

• Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Leo Gotzmann in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 323f
2. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 324.
3. ↑ Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: Extras in Uniform: The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 184.