Anton Weissensteiner

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Anton Weissensteiner was an Austrian , National Socialist politician and insurance officer from Sauerbrunn . On March 15, 1938, Gauleiter Tobias Portschy appointed him a member of the Burgenland Landtag and from June 1938 was district leader of Voitsberg . Weissensteiner volunteered for the Waffen SS on April 1, 1940 . His training to become an Unterscharfuhrer took place in the SS Unterführerschule in Lublinitz in Silesia. With his unit he went to France, but did not take part in any fighting there. On September 21, 1940 he was placed in the UK by the Gauleiter and returned to the Kreisleiter post. He was then again Kreisleiter from late 1940 to October or November 1941, after which he was again with the Waffen-SS until February 1943, where he was deployed as a tank leader on the Eastern Front. Weissensteiner was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Panzer Assault Badge. During his military service, Weissensteiner was represented as district leader by Hubert Eisner .

Weissensteiner was indicted in the People's Court in 1948 because he was considered a "special agitator" against the Jewish population of Mattersburg . Weissensteiner was charged with numerous crimes against the Jewish population, but only because of illegality, his function as SA Oberstummbannführer, Gauobmann of the DAF Styria (from 1943) and his activity as district leader of Voitsberg (§ 1 Abs. 6 War Criminals Act and § 11 Prohibition Act ) Sentenced to ten years in severe dungeon and financial collapse. Taking into account his imprisonment since May 30, 1945, he was released on October 27, 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Mindler: Portschy is from Burgenland, I am Styrian. A Burgenlander as deputy Gauleiter of Styria. The work of Dr. Tobias Portschy in the Styrian region. (PDF file; 5.11 MB) In: Historischer Verein für die Steiermark (Ed.): Blätter für Heimatkunde, Heft 4, Graz 2006

literature

  • Oberwarther-Sonntags-Zeitung, No. 13, vol. 59 (April 3, 1938)
  • Susanne Uslu-Pauer, Eva Holpfer: Before the people's court. Proceedings against Nazi perpetrators from Burgenland 1945–1955 (= Burgenland Research. 96). Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government - Main Section Provincial Archives and Provincial Library, Eisenstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-901517-59-4 .
  • Federal Archives Berlin, local group index, Anton Weißensteiner
personal data
SURNAME Weissensteiner, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weißensteiner, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP), member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century