Ferdinand Eypeltauer

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Ferdinand Eypeltauer (born September 28, 1893 in Vienna , † July 19, 1979 in Linz ) was an Austrian senior public prosecutor in Linz and a National Socialist .

Life

Eypeltauer studied law at the University of Vienna and became Dr. jur. During his studies in 1911 he became a member of the Silesia Vienna fraternity .

In 1934 Eypeltauer became a member of the Austro-Fascist Catholic Fatherland Front , and in 1936 he joined the NSDAP. In 1938, when Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, he worked for three weeks at the dissolution of the Ministry of Justice in Vienna and then again as a public prosecutor at the public prosecutor's office at the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Vienna I. On April 1, 1939, he became senior public prosecutor at the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Linz.

After the killing of people in the NS killing center in Hartheim began, a father reported the mysterious death of his son to the public prosecutor in Hartheim in October 1940. He suspected that things might not have been right here. The authorities in Upper Danube asked the Attorney General Ferdinand Eypeltauer in Linz to drop the proceedings. Eypeltauer decided otherwise, he ordered the responsible doctor in the castle to be investigated and questioned as the accused. In September 1941, Eypeltauer was ordered to discontinue the proceedings. He closed the case and resigned from his position.

From 1942 Eypeltauer was district court director in Linz. In 1942 he sentenced a casual thief to death who had stolen a bicycle, for which the public prosecutor had requested a sentence of seven years. He has 1944 two Greek slave laborers as enemies of the people sentenced to death. In proceedings other than a criminal judge, he messed with corrupt party officials without being criticized or having to stop the proceedings. He was probably not free from the social racism of the time , especially since he certified a juvenile offender from a farming family in Mühlviertel that he could not be a "pest" because of his origins. Eypeltauer denied the right to life of an allegedly mentally and physically backward 16-year-old from a working-class family from Linz, who kidnapped a corpse car during a bomb alarm and drove 80 kilometers through Linz without an accident, because the boy's criminal energy expected a serious threat to the community let. For these reasons, only the death penalty is suitable to avert future harm.

For the association year 1979, the Upper Austrian Museum Association - Society for Regional Studies reports the quiet death of the Senate President Dr. Ferdinand Eypeltauer. Eypeltauer was buried in the Heiligenstädter Friedhof in Vienna.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical lexicon of the German fraternity. Volume I: Politicians, Part 7: Supplement A – K, Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 307–309.
  • Walter Kohl : I don't feel guilty. Georg Renno, euthanasia doctor. 1st edition, Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-552-04973-8 .
  • Tom Matzek : The Murder Castle. On the trail of Nazi crimes in Hartheim Castle. 1st edition, Kremayr & Scheriau Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-218-00710-0 , Chapter 11, On the trail of the murders.
  • Ernst Klee : "Euthanasia" in the Nazi state. The "destruction of life unworthy of life". 11th edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, series of publications: Fischer-Taschenbücher No. 4326 - The time of National Socialism, ISBN 3-596-24326-2 .
  • Winfried R. Garscha, Franz Scharf: Justice in Upper Danube. Linz 2007, Upper Austrian Provincial Archives , Chapter War Economic Crimes. ISBN 978-3-900313-85-2 , pp. 247-332.
  • Helga Thoma: Admonisher Helper Patriots. Portraits from the Austrian Resistance. Ed. Va Bene, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85167-168-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M 32.8-1299 Eypeltauer, Ferdinand, 1919.10.20 (document), University of Vienna
  2. ^ Civil courage against mass murder ORF ON Science, Tom Matzek / Modern Times
  3. ↑ 1942-1943, Landstrasse 18-20. The casual thief. see literature: Justice in Upper Danube.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. 2003, 143
  5. ↑ Erwin Riess : Too little punishment. , The Press, March 14, 2008
  6. ^ Higher Regional Court Councilor at rest (1940) Upper Austrian Museum Association - Society for Regional Studies, May 1, 1953 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  7. ^ II. Reports. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Society for regional studies. Linz 1980, p. 17, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
personal data
SURNAME Eypeltauer, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1979
Place of death Linz