Alfred Proksch (politician)

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Alfred Proksch

Alfred Proksch (born March 8, 1891 in Larischau , Jägerndorf district , Austrian Silesia ; † January 3, 1981 in Vienna ) was an Austrian National Socialist party official and politician before the end of World War II (1938–1945).

Life

Alfred Proksch attended from 1897 to 1901 the elementary school in Larischau (Larisov), Jägerndorf district, then until 1908 the state high school in Jägerndorf, which he completed with the Abitur. This was followed by a one-year training at the Railway Academy in Linz . In 1912 he was a civil servant in the local management of the Imperial and Royal State Railways . This was followed by participation in the First World War as a reserve officer in the railroad service. In 1919, after the end of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy , he co-founded the DNSAP ( German National Socialist Workers' Party ), married and had two sons.

From 1923 to 1932 he devoted himself to the development of the DNSAP in Austria and was the National Socialist parliamentary group leader in the Linz municipal council in Upper Austria . The DNSAP divided into two groups in 1926, the NSDAP Hitler movement and the Schulz group. Alfred Proksch joined the Hitler movement and was appointed Gauleiter in Gau Upper Austria on August 29, 1926 . He founded several National Socialist newspapers and in 1926 the NSP publishing house. In 1927 or 1928 he was appointed deputy and managing director of the NSDAP in Austria. This ended his Gauleiter activity. Andreas Bolek became his successor, presumably as early as May 1927. In July 1931, Alfred Proksch was appointed regional manager by Adolf Hitler , which he remained until the 1933 ban on activities. The actual leadership of the party at that time was held by the state manager Theodor Habicht . After the party ban in June 1933, he fled to the German Reich and subsequently lost his Austrian citizenship and his status as an official of the Austrian Federal Railways .

In 1933 he received the NSDAP's Golden Decoration of Honor . After 1934, Alfred Proksch retained the right to use the title of Gauleiter. A year later he received German citizenship . In 1936 he was appointed to the Reich Labor and Economic Council and was a member of the Reichstag . In 1934 he became a member of the Munich fraternity Germania Leoben .

In 1938, after the “Anschluss” of Austria , he was appointed group leader of the SA and as Reich trustee for the economic area of ​​Austria, the then Ostmark . In 1939 he also carried the same title for the Sudetenland area . On June 15, 1938 he was appointed President of the State Labor Office in Vienna and Lower Danube and he received his remuneration from the budget of the Reich Trustee Administration . In 1939 or 1943 he was appointed SA-Obergruppenführer .

In 1945, after the end of World War II , Alfred Proksch was arrested by the American armed forces, then sentenced to loss of property and four years of heavy imprisonment, which he spent in Soviet captivity. At the same time, his pension rights were denied. After his release, he worked first as an assistant and then as an office assistant. He died in Vienna in 1981.

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SURNAME Proksch, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR, Gau and country leader of the NSDAP in Austria
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Larischau , Jägerndorf District, Austrian Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 3rd January 1981
Place of death Vienna