Franz Hanke

Franz Hanke

Franz Hanke (born October 15, 1892 in Vresna , Wittingau district , Austria-Hungary; † December 6, 1980 in Vienna - Brigittenau , Austria) was a politician of the NSDAP and SA leader .

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After attending elementary school, Franz Hanke learned construction at the trade school. Since 1914 he was a member of the academic legion.

Until the end of 1918 he fought as a first lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Regiment at the front. After the war he worked as a construction technician and engineer.

Hanke joined the NSDAP in 1921 ( membership number 52,305) and became Standartenführer of the SA on January 1, 1932 . From 1933 until the annexation of (Austria) to the National Socialist German Reich, Hanke was imprisoned for thirty months for illegal activities for the NSDAP in Austria. In April 1937 he was promoted to SA Brigadführer as leader of the illegal Brigade 2 Vienna . In 1938 he became the leader of the SA command post in the north (Lower Austria). On January 31, 1941, he resigned from the SA at his own request and thus also lost his post in the SA. He was then councilor of Vienna. In addition, he was later chairman of the board of the Hofmann & Czerny AG piano factory in Vienna.

Since 1938, Hanke was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria , from which he resigned on October 31, 1944, when he voluntarily resigned his seat.

In the 1950s, Hanke was involved in the democratic-national workers' party in Austria. He died in Vienna at the end of 1980.

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 .

Web links

• Franz Hanke in the database of members of the Reichstag