Alexander Eifler

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Alexander Eifler , Edler von Lobenstedt (born May 30, 1888 in Vienna , † January 2, 1945 in Dachau ) was an Austrian officer and chief of staff of the Republican Protection Association .

Life

Eifler came from a family of officers. His father rose to the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal . Alexander Eifler completed his officer training as a lieutenant in 1909 and joined the " Saxon Dragons ". In the First World War he was wounded and highly decorated, at the end of the war he was a captain . He was the first soldiers' council in the young republic and joined the people's armed forces in 1918 , and he played an active part in building it up. In 1921 Eifler was promoted to major. When the Republican Schutzbund was founded in 1924, he became its chief of staff, which he remained until the Schutzbund was banned in 1933. According to other sources, he did not leave the army until 1927.

Like Schutzbund chairman Julius Deutsch , he advocated a military orientation of the Schutzbund and designed its organization and training accordingly. As a result, he came into conflict with Theodor Körner , who only considered the use of the Schutzbund to be promising if he was supported by actions of the workers' movement. Eifler's civil war plan contained a number of terrorist elements; in the event of an uprising, all officers of the Federal Army and the police should be rendered harmless immediately; He campaigned for "black lists" on which the relatives of the opposing leaders (members of the government, banks, editorial offices ...) are to be recorded, and the holding of "revolutionary tribunals" and the application of so-called martial law. "The active part of the bourgeoisie is to be isolated and the use of class terror to be proclaimed against arrested opponents of the bourgeois parties."

Although Eifler not to the Austrian civil war had taken part (he was because of the treason charges since the beginning of February 1934, prison), he was placed in April 1935 twenty other Conservation Union officials on trial with 18 years hard labor sentenced to the highest punishment. However, he was released on parole with the Christmas amnesty, but was penniless due to the withdrawal of his officers' pension. As a tailor he tried to earn a living.

Registration card of Alexander Eifler as a prisoner in the National Socialist concentration camp Dachau

During the Anschluss , Eifler called for the struggle for an independent Austria and tried to establish connections between the illegal socialists and government agencies. On March 16, 1938 Eifler was from the Gestapo arrested and the first celebrity transport to Dachau concentration camp brought, where he died after intermediate internment in a concentration camp Flossenburg shortly before the war ended.

In his honor, Körner, as mayor of Vienna, renamed a municipal building by the architect Otto Prutscher in the 17th district to "Eiflerhof" in a ceremony in 1950 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Tactics of Street Fighting" in the civil war against the federal government. In General Administrative Archives, February 1934, Ktn. 5 (Pr. Zl.IV-2006/166/34), Appendix A.
  2. ^ Ilona Duczynska (1975). The democratic Bolshevik. On the theory and practice of violence. Munich: List.

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personal data
SURNAME Eifler, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social democratic officer and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1945
Place of death Dachau