Franz Holzweber

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Franz Holzweber (born November 20, 1904 in Vienna ; † July 31, 1934 executed there) was an Austrian National Socialist and putschist. According to the judgment of the military tribunal , he was one of the chief leaders in the July putsch on July 25, 1934.

Life

Holzweber was a trained electrical engineer, of Protestant denomination, married and had a three-year-old child. At the time of the July coup he had his main residence in Mauer .

He served as a sergeant in the Austrian army from 1931 to 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1930 .

With the code name "Captain Friedrich", Holzweber was a leader of the putschists in the Federal Chancellery on the day of the July putsch on July 25, 1934. Because of his participation in this failed Nazi coup attempt in Austria and his involvement in the killing of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , he was through a military court sentenced to death and how otto planetta on July 31 in Vienna Regional court by the executioner Johann Lang on Würgegalgen executed . At the direction of the court, Holzweber was the first to be hanged. The corpses were not handed over to the relatives, but rather cremated in the Simmering fire hall . Holzweber's ashes were later buried in the Mauer cemetery (group 46A, no. 125).

Glorification in the Nazi state

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, streets in several cities were renamed after him. Among them were u. a. Berlin and Dresden . The SS regiment  89 was named after him.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Bauer: Hitler's second putsch: Dollfuss, the Nazis and July 25, 1934 . Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 2014 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Holzweberstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
personal data
SURNAME Holzweber, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian National Socialist and putschist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1934
Place of death Vienna