Eduard Honisch

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Eduard Honisch

Eduard Honisch (born January 7, 1910 in Klein Bukowitz , Krain ; † December 12, 1953 in Vienna-Favoriten ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

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After attending the elementary and community school in St. Pölten , Honisch completed a commercial apprenticeship. For this purpose he also attended the commercial college for two classes. He then worked as a businessman for nine years. From 1924 he was a member of the German Trade Association.

Honisch joined the NSDAP and the SA as well as the National Socialist Company Cell Organization (NSBO) in 1932 .

According to his own information, Honisch was arrested by the Austrian authorities on July 26, 1934 for Nazi activity. The basic fact of his arrest is confirmed by a newspaper note in the Canberra Times of August 6, 1934, which does not give an exact date of arrest, but specifies the reasons for the arrest to the effect that Honisch was found in possession of explosives . It can be assumed that the arrest of Honisch, who was unemployed at the time, was related to the failed July coup of the Austrian National Socialists against the government of Engelbert Dollfuss , who died in the course of these events.

On August 4, 1934, Honisch was sentenced to death by hanging by a court martial for unauthorized possession of explosives . Three minutes before the execution of the death sentence , the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment for heavy labor .

On February 18, 1938, Honisch was released as a result of the impending annexation of Austria by the German Reich . As a result he took over the leadership of SA-Sturm 11 / X in his hometown St. Pölten again . A few months later, in August 1938, Honisch was appointed a member of the Reichstag . After Austria's incorporation into the German Reich, he belonged to the parliament , which was now referred to as the “Greater German Reichstag ” and reduced to a mere acclamation organ, until the spring of 1943.

In the following years Honisch officiated initially as an honorary district organization leader of the NSDAP in St. Pölten. On April 1, 1941, he took up a position in the NSDAP's organization office, in order to then take on tasks as a clerk in the “German Community” in the NSDAP's general government .

In April 1941 Honisch's parliamentary immunity was lifted due to the initiation of criminal proceedings for negligent homicide (traffic accident). In December 1941 he was sentenced to one month's arrest by the St. Pölten Regional Court. A year later he came again with the Justice in Conflict: On 20 October 1942 he was the Party Court of the NSDAP because of embezzlement warned of party funds and punished with the deprivation of worthiness Clothing a party office for one year. On March 29, 1943, he was expelled from the NSDAP. His mandate in the Reichstag was revoked at this time and transferred to Edmund Brauner .

In April 1945, towards the end of World War II, Honisch fled St. Pölten from the advancing US Army and settled in Henndorf am Wallersee in the province of Salzburg , where he was arrested in February 1946. In 1953 he died in Vienna at the age of 43.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Vienna-Favoriten No. 1786/1953.
  2. ^ Arrest after Vienna Trial , in: The Canberra Times, August 6, 1934, p. 3.
  3. ^ Franz Winkler: Die Dictatur in Oesterreich , 1935, p. 184. At the same point it is noted that Honisch had not used the explosives.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Müller . Memor book Jews in St. Pölten. Retrieved May 13, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Honisch, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Bukowitz , Carniola
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1953
Place of death Vienna favorites