Egon Denz

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Egon Denz (born November 23, 1899 in Schwarzenberg (Vorarlberg) , † December 15, 1979 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian lawyer, politician (NSDAP) and SS leader. At the time of National Socialism in Austria , he was Lord Mayor of Innsbruck.

Life

Denz was the son of a small farmer. After attending school at the Feldkirch grammar school , Denz took part in the First World War as a volunteer in the Joint Army . After the end of the war and release from captivity, Denz completed a law degree at the University of Innsbruck and worked as an independent lawyer in Innsbruck from 1930. Politically, he was initially active in the Landbund. Denz was a member of the NSDAP from 1933 ( membership number 1.528.231).

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , he was Lord Mayor of Innsbruck from March 12, 1938 until the end of the war in May 1945. In addition, he was deputy to the unofficial Gauleiter of the NSDAP of Tyrol-Vorarlberg Edmund Christoph until May 1938 and then Gauamtsleiter for local politics. During the November pogroms in Innsbruck in 1938, the Lord Mayor and Supreme Commander of the Denz fire brigade did not let the fire brigade put out the fires. As a result of the Anschluss he joined the SS (membership number 309.084), in which he achieved the rank of SS standard leader in December 1939 .

During the Second World War , Denz was from 1943 in the administration of the Supreme Commissioner in the " Operational Zone Alpine Foreland " in Bolzano under Franz Hofer responsible for the interior department.

After the war, Denz was in Allied internment and was handed over from it in June 1947, Austrian authorities. Preliminary investigations against Denz were initiated by the Innsbruck People's Court , but the proceedings were discontinued and Denz was released from custody on October 27, 1947. From November 1953 to December 1956 he represented the Association of Independents in the Innsbruck City Council.

After his death Denz was in an honorary grave in the West Cemetery buried Innsbruck. His son and councilor of the FPÖ Elmar Denz sued Anton Pelinka unsuccessfully in 1988 because he had described his father as a “prominent perpetrator of 1938” at a commemorative event marking the fiftieth anniversary of the “Reichskristallnacht”.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 105.
  2. ^ Horst Schreiber : The takeover of power: the National Socialists in Tyrol 1938/39 . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85218-152-6 , p. 133. (Innsbruck research on contemporary history 10)
  3. ↑ a b Egon Denz on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. ↑ Places of the November pogrom 1938 in Innsbruck ( Memento from July 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on http://novemberpogrom1938.at/
  5. ↑ Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-486-56650-4 , p. 445. (= Military History Studies, Volume 38)
  6. ↑ Thomas Vormbaum (ed.): Yearbook of contemporary legal history. Volume 8, 2006/2007. Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1471-8 , p. 38.
  7. ↑ Michael Gehler: Tyrol: "Land in the mountains": between tradition and modernity. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-205-98789-6 , p. 79. (Volume 3 of the series "History of the Austrian Federal States since 1945")
  8. ↑ Graves of Honor of the City of Innsbruck ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at www.innsbruck.at
  9. ↑ Michael Gehler: Tyrol: "Land in the mountains": between tradition and modernity. 1999, p. 131.
personal data
SURNAME Denz, Egon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, politician (NSDAP) and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzenberg (Vorarlberg)
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1979
Place of death innsbruck