Alfons Alder

Alfons Erle (born July 28, 1886 in Vienna , † July 7, 1939 in Prague ) was an Austrian SA functionary, most recently in the rank of SA brigade leader .

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Alder was the son of a major general . In his youth he attended a military school and the Theresian Military Academy in Vienna. In 1906 he joined the Uhlan Regiment No. 3 of the Austro-Hungarian Army as a lieutenant . At the end of 1913 he moved to the General Staff, to which he belonged until 1918.

After the end of the First World War in November 1918, Erle became staff leader of the Ukrainian Galicia Army and later chief of staff of the 1st Galicia Corps. On January 1, 1919, he was promoted to major and in this capacity assigned to the Galician delegation to the Paris Peace Conference . Subsequently, Erle took part with the Ukrainian army in battles against the Polish and Bolshevik armed forces. After being captured in Poland in May 1920, he managed to escape to Austria.

From 1923 to 1931 Erle last worked in commercial professions as a bank clerk. At the end of the 1920s he worked in the Styrian homeland security , most recently as head of the local group Hetzendorf.

On October 29, 1930, Erle joined the NSDAP ( membership number 301.684), in which he was assigned to the local group Meidling . In November he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party's street combat organization. While in the party from May to November 1931 he headed the organization department for the Meidling district, he led a sub-group in the SA, since November 1, 1931 with the rank of Sturmbannführer. On July 1, 1933, he was promoted to Obersturmbannführer.

From September 1 to October 14, 1933, Erle was imprisoned by the Austrian authorities for illegal activities for the NSDAP. As a result of the ongoing persecution of the National Socialists by the Austrian government, Erle emigrated to the German Reich in January 1935 . From February to October 1935 he was on the staff of the Northwest Relief Organization. In this position he was promoted to SA Standartenführer on April 20, 1935.

From November 1935 to July 1937 Erle worked for the Austrian Legion in Hagen-Westphalia and from August 1937 to April 1938 in Gonsenheim near Mainz . During this time he was promoted to Oberführer.

After the German invasion of Austria in March 1938, Erle was transferred to Vienna in May 1938, where he was active in the Austrian development staff of the Reich Labor Service. When he was promoted to SA brigade leader on November 9, 1938, he reached his highest SA rank at this time. In 1939 he acted as chief labor leader of the Reich Labor Service as leader of Arbeitsgauess XXXVI in Graz .

literature

• Hans Schafranek: Mercenaries for the "Anschluss". The Austrian Legion 1933–1938 , Vienna 2011, p. 403.