Albert Reitter

Albert Reitter (born June 14, 1895 in Salzburg ; † December 27, 1962 there ) was an Austrian lawyer, National Socialist politician and SS leader. During the Second World War he was regional president in the Reichsgau Salzburg.

Life

Reitter ended his school career by taking his Matura . From 1914 he took part in the First World War as a volunteer with the Austro-Hungarian Army , but was retired from the army in January 1915 due to an eye disease. He then earned a degree in law and a doctorate on Dr. jur. He was also at the Mozarteum and later belonged to the board of trustees of this foundation for many years.

After the end of the war he became politically active in a German-national environment in South Tyrol and after his return to Salzburg he joined the Heimwehr . Joined the SS in January 1938 (SS no. 307.770), in April 1940 he achieved the rank of SS Oberführer in this Nazi organization . His membership number in the NSDAP was 6,346,707.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " in March 1938 he was provincial governor of the government in Salzburg, first under the Gauleiter Anton Wintersteiger and then Friedrich Rainer and finally Gustav Adolf Scheel . Under Rainer he was responsible for local Nazi cultural policy until 1940. In 1940, he became regional president and district captain in the Reichsgau Salzburg. Due to a serious, high-profile corruption scandal (several months of illegal purchase of travel stamps), he was transferred to the Reich Ministry of the Interior in November 1944 .

After the end of the war he was interned and after his release from 1950 he worked again as a lawyer.

literature

• Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 , pp. 217-219.