Armin Dadieu

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Armin Dadieu (born August 20, 1901 in Brunndorf ; † April 6, 1978 in Graz ) was an Austrian chemist, National Socialist politician and high-ranking SS officer.

Life

Armin Dadieu was born in Brunndorf near Marburg an der Drau in 1901 as the son of railway inspector Josef Dadieu and his wife Friederike Pelkhofer. The family was expelled from Slovenia in 1919 .

In Marburg an der Drau he was first at the elementary school and then at the secondary school, which he graduated with the Matura in 1919 . In autumn 1919 he began to study chemistry at the Technical University in Graz. He belonged to the ATV Graz and the Alpine Club . He finished his studies in 1923 as a graduate engineer and was then a research assistant at the TH Graz. In 1924 he passed the teaching examination for the subjects chemistry, physics and mathematics, but did not become a teacher, but continued his studies. 1926 doctorate he with work via the electromotive behavior of aluminum Dr. techn. In the summer of 1929 Dadieu completed his habilitation at the Technical University and in 1930 at the University of Graz. In March 1932 he became an associate professor for inorganic and physical chemistry . In 1935 he received the Lieben Prize (the “Austrian Nobel Prize”) for his work in the field of Raman spectroscopy .

Dadieu was also politically active, initially with the Styrian Homeland Security from 1927 to 1930 . As early as 1932 he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1.085.044). In 1938 he stated that during the party's illegal period in Austria he had secretly manufactured explosive devices for them in his institute. In addition, in 1937 he carried out illegal research for Hermann Göring and set up an intelligence service for him. In 1936 he became a “national political advisor” to the Fatherland Front in Styria and worked undercover for the NSDAP, which was banned in Austria. In 1938 Dadieu organized Nazi rallies and after the annexation of Austria in March 1938 was given the post of provincial governor and district captain in Styria. He also joined the SS in July 1936 (membership number 292.783) and was appointed SS-Sturmbannführer and, months later, SS-Standartenführer . Until 1941 he was also a regional economic advisor to the NSDAP in the Styrian region and head of the Chamber for Trade, Commerce and Industry. From July 1940 to July 1941 Dadieu took part in the Second World War as a Stuka pilot . In 1942 he was appointed SS-Oberführer , from 1943 to 1945 Dadieu was Gaudozentenbundführer in Styria.

In May 1945 Dadieu was arrested by soldiers of the Red Army , but was able to escape after a brief detention. On January 13, 1946, his name appeared on a list of war criminals in the Wiener Zeitung . In March 1948 he was arrested in Tyrol and released again, which he used to flee across the border to Italy and from there to Argentina . There he became an advisor to the government, especially on the subject of rocket fuels ( Argentine Cóndor missile ). Austria declared Dadieu's assets forfeited in 1950, and proceedings against him were discontinued.

His daughter Renate married Imo Moszkowicz in 1956 .

In 1958 Dadieu left Argentina again and took up a position at the Institute for Jet Propulsion in Stuttgart . From 1962 he headed the Institute for Rocket Fuels in Stuttgart, and from 1970 the Institute for Chemical Rocket Propulsion in Lampoldshausen . As a pensioner he lived in Graz again.

He was a member of the committees for transport systems for the Apollo successor program and for the EUROPA-III launcher.

He worked for OTRAG and as an expert for the federal government on OTRAG matters.

Publications

  • with Karl WF Kohlrausch: Studies on the Raman effect. 1929.
  • Rocket propellants. 1968.

literature

  • Soukup, Pohl: The scientific world of yesterday. 2004, p. 295.
  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
  • Michael Grüttner : Biographical lexicon on National Socialist science policy. Heidelberg 2004, p. 36.
  • Armin Dadieu: From my notes 1938–1945. In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz. 10, 1978.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria. Kevelaer 2006, pp. 426, 432.
  3. ^ A b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 155.
  4. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 159.