Adolf Lind

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Adolf Josef Lind (born May 28, 1894 in Vienna-Matzleinsdorf ; † August 5, 1966 in Vienna-Ottakring ) was an Austrian farmer and politician who was convicted of war crimes in 1949 .

Life

He was born the son of the private civil servant Adolf Lind and his wife Anna and after compulsory school he attended the commercial training school, where he learned the mechanic's trade, although he had a preference for agriculture .

He worked in the Gräf & Stift car factory until 1914 and volunteered for military service when the First World War broke out , where he was taken prisoner by Russia and had to work in coal mining and agriculture, until he managed to escape to Austria in 1918, where he worked as a Soldier came to the Italian front .

After the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he settled in a German colony (see Black Sea Germans ) in southern Ukraine in 1919 and married Emilie Zernickel in 1920 , with whom he had three children. Together with his wife, he managed their agricultural property. They lived through the period of the Russian Civil War and had to flee in 1924.

In Mitterskirchen in Machland he bought an estate in Loa, 1930 was the founder and first chairman of the dairy - Cooperative Baumgartenberg and initiated the "Eindosungsaktion" for farming households. In 1943 he sold his property in Mitterkirchen and acquired a ( "Aryanized" ) large farm in Töstitz near Znaim , which he had to leave in 1945, however. He and his family fled to Lembach in the Mühlkreis . After serving his sentence as a war criminal , he worked as an estate administrator for Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen until 1956.

Political career

In 1933 he joined the NSDAP with membership number 1.517.613 , where he became local group leader of Mitterkirchen in 1934 . Until 1936 he was local farmers leader , later district farmers leader of Perg and from the beginning of 1937 district farmers leader.

In 1937 he also joined the SS with the number 309,465 and rose to the rank of SS Sturmbannführer by the end of World War II . Because of the illegal Nazi activity he was arrested twice and has by his own admission the Nazi coup attempt in July 1934 for the provisions of the SA made Readiness. Lind was an angle bearer and bearer of the skull ring and belonged to the Lebensborn Association .

Immediately after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , he became the regional farmers 'leader for Upper Austria, but lost this position to Anton Reinthaller after the establishment of the regional farmers' association Donauland (see Agriculture and Food in National Socialist Austria ) . In the same period he headed the Gauamt für Agrarpolitik, where it was part of his duties to dissolve the Chamber of Agriculture and replace it with the Reichsnährstand .

From March 1938 until the entry into force of the Ostmark law Lind was one of the provincial government of Upper Austria state government under Governor August Eigruber and was the liaison for Eigrubers Reich. Since he refused to fire two employees related to Jews, he was transferred to Vienna.

From July 1938 to May 1942, Lind was the main department head of the Donauland rural farming community (main department I man) at the Reichsnährstand.

Other offices were:

In the provincial governorate he headed the IVb business group (agriculture and forestry) until the end of 1939.

War crimes

Lind's name was on the Allied war crimes lists on the grounds that, as an illegal leader, he contributed to the preparations for the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and to the preparations for war.

He was arrested in May 1945 in Lembach im Mühlkreis and interned in the Glasenbach (Elsbethen) camp in the state of Salzburg . In 1947 he was released from there and transferred to the Linz Regional Court . He was released on vow two months later and lived and worked as a farm laborer in Thening .

In the trial on April 9, 1949 before the People's Court Linz he was because of his membership in the NSDAP from 1933 to 1938 and the SS, and because of his position as a political leader and his rank as sturmbannführer to 18 months severe imprisonment of, for replacement The costs of criminal proceedings and the execution of sentences as well as the forfeiture of his property.

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  • Franz Asanger: Mitterkirchen - A historical portrait of the Machlandgemeinde , Marktgemeinde Mitterkirchen im Machland (ed.), Linz 1999, S 259ff (A Mitterkirchner becomes Landesrat, Adolf Lind and Johann Blöchl , the referendum of April 10, 1938 in Mitterkirchen)
  • BArch (formerly BDC), SSO 262A 417, Lind, Adolf (May 28, 1894)
  • BArch, DAL Oct. 1944, Lind, Adolf (May 28, 1894)
  • BArch, ZA VI 3194 A.10 Bl. 7,8, Lind, Adolf (May 28, 1894)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Vienna-Ottakring No. 1799/1966.
  2. ↑ Article  in:  Arbeitersturm. Kampfblatt der National Socialist Arbeiters Deutschösterreich , April 13, 1938, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abs
personal data
SURNAME Lind, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lind, Adolf Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian farmer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna-Matzleinsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1966
Place of death Vienna-Ottakring