Anton Slupetzky

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Anton Slupetzky (born January 19, 1899 in Vienna ; † September 2, 1987 in Linz ) was an Austrian entrepreneur and National Socialist whose company in the National Socialist German Reich supplied the gas Zyklon B to the Gusen concentration camp , the twin camp of Mauthausen , from 1942 . He was sentenced to five years in prison during the Dachau trials in 1947 for participating in the murder of more than 150 people in Gusen .

Life and company history

Before 1938

In November 1925, Anton Slupetzky founded the Anton Slupetzky cleaning and storage facility with its headquarters at Starhembergstrasse 39 in Linz. In 1929, the company was granted a license to control pests with highly toxic substances. From 1931 hydrogen cyanide fumigations were also carried out under the license of a Viennese company. As a result, the company specialized more and more in the field of pest control. In 1936 the company moved to Schubertstraße 20 in Linz.

Slupetzky joined the NSDAP on May 28, 1932 and was listed there under membership number 1.080.588. In 1936 Slupetzky was one of the organizers of a Nazi propaganda campaign that took place in connection with the release from prison of four National Socialists. He was therefore judicially sentenced and was imprisoned in the Wöllersdorf detention center .

time of the nationalsocialism

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, Slupetzky became a Gaufachschaftswalter for pest and epidemic control in 1939 and in 1940 received the concession for the use of cyano gases and thus also for the hydrocyanic acid product Zyklon B. Subsequently, the Slupetzkys company was classified as a key company by the high command of the Wehrmacht and Slupetzky declared indispensable and not drafted into military service. As a specialist in disinfestation, Slupetzky was involved in the construction of the delousing facility of the city of Linz in Muldenstrasse in 1941, which was leased to the cleaning and storage facility Anton Slupetzky immediately after its completion until the end of the war . In this large-scale delousing facility , which opened on February 1, 1942 , but also in prisoner-of-war camps, forced labor camps and concentration camps in the area, forced laborers and camp inmates were deloused and their clothing was disinfested by means of hydrogen cyanide fumigation as part of the National Socialist disease prevention process. The cleaning and storage facility Anton Slupetzky had up to 46 employees and in 1942 was ranked as the fourth largest company in this field in Greater Germany.

From March 1942, in addition to the Heerdt-Lingler company , Slupetzky's company also delivered the Zyklon B gas to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where Slupetzky was involved in gassing experiments on rats to fine-tune the gas chamber during the construction of the Mauthausen gas chamber .

On March 2, 1942, Slupetzky, who achieved the rank of SA-Obersturmbannführer within the paramilitary assault detachment , was involved, together with his long-time colleague Leopold Fischer, in the murder of 164 Soviet prisoners of war by gassing them with the poison gas Zyklon B in Barrack 16 in Gusen concentration camp.

In 1942 and 1943, at the instigation of the Reich Ministry of the Interior , Slupetzky carried out disinfestation assignments with Zyklon B for several months in the occupied territories of Bulgaria and Greece.

In 1943 the company was renamed the Anton Slupetzky cleaning and disinfestation facility .

After 1945

According to his wife Hedwig, Anton Slupetzky was arrested in Helfenberg on May 4, 1945 , but was able to flee one day after his arrest. On August 4, 1945, however, despite the use of false identification papers by the CIC , he was arrested again because of his NSDAP membership and his SA rank, which had existed since 1932, and after a few stops he was transferred to the US internment camp in Glasenbach . On May 20, 1946, Slupetzky was reported to the Urfahr public prosecutor for his involvement in the gassing of Soviet Russian prisoners of war with Zyklon B in March 1941 in the Gusen concentration camp for the crime under Section 1 of the War Crimes Act. On March 3, 1947, at the request of the American Military Court in Linz, the proceedings were assigned to it. On July 28, 1947, Slupetzky and four other defendants were indicted in a subsidiary trial to the Mauthausen main trial before a military court of the United States Army in Dachau ( Case No. 000-50-5-31 (US vs. Karl Glas et al) Tried 12 Aug 47 ). He was sentenced to five years in prison on August 12, 1947 because he was involved in the murder of more than 150 people in the course of delousing work in the Gusen I concentration camp . and transferred to the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . On December 21, 1949, seven months before the sentence was due to expire, Slupetzky was released from prison.

After his release, Slupetzky continued to prosecute him. In 1950, the Linz People's Court and later the Linz Regional Court requested the continuation of the investigations into the facts that had already been prosecuted in Dachau, since the exact circumstances of his involvement (including intent) in the Dachau trial remained unclear. The judicial investigations also included the mistreatment of forced laborers in the Linz delousing facility. However, both proceedings were discontinued.

On October 1, 1957, Hedwig Slupetzky took over the company, now renamed ARED General Cleaning and Disinfestation Service Anton Slupetzky . From 1959, the two sons Othmar (* July 18, 1927 - † October 19, 1974) and Erich Slupetzky (* 1922 - † 1995) took over the company, which has now been converted into a GmbH . While Erich left the company in 1966 and devoted himself to his wholesale company, which had been founded in 1953, Othmar Slupetzky remained managing director of ARED until his suicide in 1974. After his death, the company was again managed by his mother Hedwig Slupetzky, who had been divorced from Anton Slupetzky since 1958. From her, the son of Othmar Slupetzky, Andreas, took over the management in 1985 and merged ARED with ISS Marischka Servisystem to form ISS Servisystem - an Austrian subsidiary of the Danish cleaning company ISS .

The eldest son of Anton Slupetzky, the former Linz Youth Youth leader Komm.-Rat Erich Slupetzky was Federal Chairman of the ÖTB and FPÖ politician from 1978 to 1983 .

literature

  • General cleaning and disinfestation service Anton Slupetzky KG (Ed.): 50 years of ARED. Company anniversary brochure, self-published, Wels 1975.
  • Eva Hallama: "Until the war came ..." Presentation and company history of the 'General Cleaning and Disinfestation Service Anton Slupetzky' in the context of cleaning, disease control and National Socialist mass murder. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2013, with extensive bibliography. Online on the website of the University of Vienna (PDF; 3.7 MB).
  • Eva Hallama: From disease control to Nazi mass murder. The areas of activity of the cleaning and disinfestation facility Anton Slupetzky in Mauthausen and Gusen. Mauthausen Memorial - Yearbook 2013, Vienna 2014, pp. 45–58, ISBN 978-3-7003-1900-9 .
  • Günter Morsch , Bertrand Perz (ed.): New studies on National Socialist mass killings by poison gas. Historical significance, technical development, revisionist denial. With the collaboration of Astrid Ley. Berlin 2011.
  • Bertrand Perz, Florian Freund : Killings by poison gas in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In: Günter Morsch / Bertrand Perz (ed.): New studies on National Socialist mass killings by poison gas. Historical significance, technical development, revisionist denial. With the collaboration of Astrid Ley. Berlin 2011, pp. 244-259.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 586.
  2. ↑ Mauthausen Memorial, Mauthausen Memorial, Vienna.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Eva Hallama: Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2013.
  4. ↑ Thomas Dostal: The "brown network" in Linz 1933–1938 . In: Fritz Mayrhofer, Walter Schuster (ed.): National Socialism in Linz . Volume 1. Linz 2001, pp. 21-136.
  5. ↑ Eugen Kogon , Hermann Langbein , Adalbert Rückerl a . a. (Ed.): National Socialist mass killings by poison gas. A documentation . Frankfurt am Main 1983.
  6. ↑ Bertrand Perz, Florian Freund: killings by poison gas in the Mauthausen concentration camp. (2011).
  7. ↑ US National Archives and Records Administration, Publ. T-1021 [1] (PDF; 261 kB).
  8. ^ Newspaper clipping about the trial against Anton Slupetzky ( Tagblatt , Linz, August 28, 1947) [2] .
  9. ↑ Document from the US Army proceedings of February 17, 1948, p. 8 [3] (PDF; 2.7 MB).
  10. ↑ ISS offers full service for buildings , Wirtschaftsblatt July 24, 1996 ISS offers full service for buildings ( Memento from September 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  11. ↑ fact sheet of December 9, 1992 PDF [4] .
  12. ^ Foundation Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance (ed.), Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism , updated and expanded new edition, Vienna 1994, 351 and 493, ISBN 3-216-30099-4 .
  13. ↑ Book cover on Google books.
personal data
SURNAME Slupetzky, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur, SA member, war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1987
Place of death Linz