Adolf Dietscher

Adolf Dietscher (born May 6, 1904 in Linz ; † unknown) was an Austrian lawyer and civil servant civil servant. Between 1943 and 1945 he was district administrator in the districts of Krumau , Linz-Land and Rohrbach in Upper Austria .

education and profession

Adolf Dietscher was born the son of a butcher couple. He graduated from secondary school and in 1925 joined the brigade artillery regiment in Linz in the service of the Austrian army . While he was still in the army, he began studying law in 1928 . In 1931 he resigned from the army, in 1933 he received his doctorate in law . He then worked as a trainee at the Linz Regional Court until 1935 and from April 1935 worked as a concept clerk at the Linz City Administration. In 1937 he passed the official examination and was pragmatized as a civil servant . At the beginning of 1938 Dietscher was appointed to the board of directors and in the course of the year he took over the rebuilding and management of the Linz registry office. In 1939 he was promoted to the senior administrative council, and in July 1939 he was promoted to the senior government council.

After Dietscher was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1939 , he took part in the attack on Poland and France and was subsequently made indispensable after his application for a transfer to the civil service in April 1941. In the same month he took over the management of the economics and labor subdivision of the Reichsstatthalterei Oberdonau, from April 1943 he worked as the district administrator of Krumau, where he represented the district administrator Pieper who had been called up to the armed forces and was supported by Paul Leitsmann . In August 1943 he also took over the office of the district administrator of the Linz-Land district, and between 1944 and 1945 he was district administrator in Rohrbach in Upper Austria.

Dietscher was arrested on May 10, 1945 and interned in the Glasenbach camp until July 18, 1946 . As a group leader of the Linz Gausturm , Dietscher was accused by former members of his group of having shot a prisoner with a series of head shots with his submachine gun as part of the so-called Mühlviertel hare hunt . As a result of this act, he was sentenced on April 24, 1947 for § 1 of the War Criminals Act and §§ 10, 11 of the Prohibition Act to 10 years of heavy dungeon , aggravated by a hard camp every quarter, as well as reimbursement of the costs of the criminal proceedings and the execution. The property was subsequently declared forfeit. Dietscher then fought to have the sentence overturned, and in 1950 he achieved conditional leniency on the remainder of the sentence. Dietscher then worked as a representative of a feed store, after a heart attack he became an employee of an installation company. In 1955 he applied for a definitive penalty and in 1956 also made a petition for clemency to the Federal President. On March 21, 1957, he finally obtained his final pardon and forbearance of the legal consequences.

Politics and functions

Dietscher became a member of the National Socialist Soldiers 'Ring and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) on April 1, 1933 . In April 1941, he took over the position of deputy group guardian of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association (NSRB) of the Upper Danube Administration group and worked from 1942 to 1943 as block leader of the NSDAP local group Schillerplatz in Linz.

Web links

• Biography of Adolf Dietscher on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .