Edmund Christoph

Edmund Christoph (born February 25, 1901 in Bad Ischl , † December 27, 1961 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian politician of the NSDAP . In 1938, immediately after the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich, he was governor for Tyrol for a short time , until he was replaced in this position by Gauleiter Franz Hofer . From 1939 to 1945 he was mayor of Innsbruck alongside Egon Denz .

Live and act

After attending elementary school and a humanistic grammar school, Edmund Christoph graduated from the teachers' college. Until 1934 he worked as a teacher in Landeck and Innsbruck.

After the unsuccessful July coup in 1934, Christoph played a key role in the restructuring and further development of the illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and served as the unofficial Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Tyrol from 1935 to 1938 .

After the " Anschluss of Austria " he officiated as provisional governor for Tyrol from March 13, 1938 and acted as district election officer in preparation for the "referendum" for reunification in April of the same year, until he was replaced by Franz on May 24, 1938 just two months later Hofer, according to Walser allegedly due to poor leadership skills, was replaced. From June 1, 1938, Christoph was initially deputy Gauleiter of the NSDAP (membership number 6,181,613), but on March 13, 1939 Herbert Parson took over this post from Christoph, who was too "lax Eastern marketers ".

From March 11, 1939 until the end of the war, he was the first associate mayor of Innsbruck under Lord Mayor Egon Denz. In this position, Christoph took over the villa of the Jewish engineer Richard Graubart , who was stabbed to death as part of the November pogroms in 1938 , in Gänsbacherstraße in Innsbruck's Saggen district as the “mayor 's apartment ”. From 1938 he was a member of the Reichstag and from 1943 SS-Standartenführer .

After the end of the war, Christoph was initially an American prisoner of war and an Austrian remand and was indicted in May 1948 in the course of denazification before the Innsbruck People's Court . Despite his high political position, Christoph was not charged by the Innsbruck public prosecutor's office under Section 6 of the War Crimes Act (KVG), which was intended for “authors and ringleaders” and provided for a minimum sentence of ten years in prison up to the death penalty, but only under Section 11 of the Prohibition Act (VG) sentenced to five years of heavy imprisonment and financial collapse for his activities as an illegal NSDAP activist before 1938. At Christmas 1948 he was released early after 42 months out of 60 months.

Then Christoph was managing director of the Tyrolean wood export cooperative. He died of a heart attack in 1961.

His son is the journalist Horst Christoph (* 1939), who in 1988 published in Profile a reflection on the failure to come to terms with the Nazi past of his family.

literature

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

Edmund Christoph in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Harald Walser : The illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1933–1938 (= materials on the workers' movement . No. 28 ). Europaverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-203-50846-X , p. 76 ( digitized online at malingesellschaft.at [PDF; 15.9 MB ]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Thomas Albrich: Gauleiter Hofer and the "brown elite" of Gaus Tirol-Vorlarlberg in the sights of post-war justice . In: Yearbook of contemporary legal history . tape 8 . Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1471-8 , pp. 37 ff .
↑ Walser, p. 78.
↑ ^a ^b Edmund Christoph † . In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck . No. 1 , 1962, pp. 7 .
^ Manfred Mühlmann: Gänsbacherstraße. Saggen district. (No longer available online.) In: Places of the November pogrom 1938 in Innsbruck. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 .
↑ Horst Christoph: The buried honor dagger. Life in a National Socialist family . In: Profile . No. 10 , 1988, pp. 86-88 .

personal data
SURNAME	Christoph, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Ischl
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1961
Place of death	innsbruck

[Walser76-1] Harald Walser : The illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1933–1938 (= materials on the workers' movement . No. 28 ). Europaverlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-203-50846-X , p. 76 ( digitized online at malingesellschaft.at [PDF; 15.9 MB ]).

[Albrich-2] Thomas Albrich: Gauleiter Hofer and the "brown elite" of Gaus Tirol-Vorlarlberg in the sights of post-war justice . In: Yearbook of contemporary legal history . tape 8 . Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1471-8 , pp. 37 ff .

[3] Walser, p. 78.

[Amtsblatt-4] Edmund Christoph † . In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck . No. 1 , 1962, pp. 7 .

[5] Manfred Mühlmann: Gänsbacherstraße. Saggen district. (No longer available online.) In: Places of the November pogrom 1938 in Innsbruck. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 ; Retrieved December 8, 2015 .

[6] Horst Christoph: The buried honor dagger. Life in a National Socialist family . In: Profile . No. 10 , 1988, pp. 86-88 .