Ferdinand Wolsegger

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Ferdinand Wolsegger (born October 11, 1880 in Gottschee , † February 1, 1959 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian administrative officer and district president at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Wolsegger, the son of a high school director, finished his school career in Villach in 1898 with the Matura . He then studied law and political science at the universities of Vienna and Graz until 1903 . From January 1904 Wolsegger initially worked as a kk state government concept intern at the district administration of Klagenfurt and then at the Ministry of the Interior in Austria .

During the First World War Wolsegger was used as an officer in Russia . After the war, Wolsegger headed the Austrian civil administration in Trieste . He then worked as president of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, but was dismissed from office because of his “National Socialist attitude”. Wolsegger then worked in Carinthia as a district administrator and from 1925 at the Carinthian provincial government as state office director. From 1930 Wolsegger worked as a medical advisor in the Federal Ministry for Social Administration . In August 1934 he was given leave of absence from his activities after the July coup and at the end of January 1935 he took early retirement. Wolsegger was president of the Carinthian Art Association in 1937 .

With the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , Wolsegger returned to the administrative service as a government director. Wolsegger became a member of the NSDAP in early May 1938 ( membership number 6,383,421). He was also a member of the SA . In the SA he reached the rank of storm leader. From May 1938 Wolsegger was again active as regional office director in Carinthia and on the instructions of Arthur Seyß-Inquart became a special representative in Vienna .

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Wolsegger was deployed from October 1939 to June 1942 in the German-occupied Generalgouvernement (GG). Wolsegger was among other things head of office in the Kraków district office and head of the government chancellery. In addition, Wolsegger became an additional deputy to State Secretary Josef Bühler in the General Government at the beginning of February 1942 .

From August 1942 Wolsegger was again active as district president in Klagenfurt and was also deputy Reich governor there . In September 1943 Wolsegger took over the post of regional president in the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone and became the deputy of the local Supreme Commissioner Friedrich Rainer . Wolsegger was replaced in this post by his previous deputy Hans Rogalski as district president in January 1945. After the war ended, Wolsegger was arrested by members of the military government in Austria and released soon after. Then he wrote his memoirs.

In 1900 he became a member of the Carniola Graz fraternity , in 1902 a member of the Arminia Czernowitz fraternity and in 1952 a member of the Silesia Vienna fraternity . His brother Friedrich Wolsegger was the mayor of the state capital Klagenfurt.

literature

  • Edmund Glaise von Horstenau , Peter Broucek (Hrsg.): A general in the twilight: the memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau , Volume 3, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-205-08743-7 .
  • Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945. (= Military History Studies, Volume 38) Munich, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-486-56650-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland. 1939–1945 (= publications by the Institute for Contemporary History. Sources and representations on contemporary history. Vol. 20). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 378-379.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 years of Gottscheer Bote ( memento of the original from March 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.2 MB). In: Gottscheer Zeitung, episode 2, February 2004  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at
  2. ↑ a b c d e Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, Peter Broucek (Ed.): A General in Twilight: The Memories of Edmund Glaises von Horstenau , Vienna 1983, p. 126.
  3. ↑ a b c d Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 , Stuttgart 1975, p. 955.
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 686.
  5. ↑ 100 years of the Carinthian Art Association - Presidents, protagonists and actors
  6. ^ Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945. Munich, 2003, pp. 120f.
personal data
SURNAME Wolsegger, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian government president
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Gottschee
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1959
Place of death innsbruck