Franz Josef Huber (Gestapo)

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Franz Josef Huber (born January 22, 1902 in Munich ; † January 30, 1975 there ) was head of the secret state police and inspector of the security police and the SD in the Reichsgauen of Vienna, Lower Danube and Upper Danube during the National Socialist era .

Life

Huber came from a strictly Catholic family . In 1922 he joined the police force and worked in the Munich police department until 1933 . Among other things, he was involved in the “Left Opposition Unit” with the surveillance of the NSDAP .

Nevertheless, the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists brought him no disadvantages - on the contrary: Huber enjoyed Reinhard Heydrich's fullest trust . Heydrich, as head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), later protested Huber. In 1934 he was transferred to the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin together with his superior Josef Meisinger and his friend Heinrich Müller . This Munich Gestapo team was called the "Bavarian Brigade". In 1937 Huber joined the NSDAP (membership number 4,583,151).

Discussion of the results of the investigation into the bomb attack in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich on November 8, 1939 by Georg Elser , from left to right: SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Josef Huber, SS-Oberführer Arthur Nebe , Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler , SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and SS- Oberführer Heinrich Müller .

Unlike Meisinger, he proved to be a capable criminalist in the course of the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis . In the case of the alleged homosexuality of the Army Commander-in-Chief Werner von Fritsch, Huber led the investigation and ultimately cleared up the affair. Fritsch was then acquitted of all allegations and rehabilitated. Huber, meanwhile SS-Obersturmbannführer, was also involved as head of the perpetrators commission in the investigation into the case of the bomb attack carried out by Georg Elser on Adolf Hitler on November 8, 1939 in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller .

Immediately after the connection of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 Huber was appointed head of the state police office in Vienna. For almost seven years he headed - together with his deputy Karl Ebner , to whom numerous executive functions were delegated - the largest Gestapo control center in the German Reich in the former Hotel Metropol on Morzinplatz. The SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police combined a multitude of functions: Huber was head of the Gestapo and inspector of the Security Police and the SD in the Reichsgauen of Vienna, Lower Danube and Upper Danube. As an inspector, Huber was the head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and was thus responsible for the mass deportations of Jews. Furthermore, Huber was political advisor to Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach and his representative as Reich Defense Commissioner for Military District XVII . As border inspector of military districts XVII and XVIII, he was responsible for border surveillance with Slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy and Switzerland. From 1943 on, Huber was also the “general representative” of the Higher SS and Police Leader “Danube”. In late autumn 1944, at the instigation of Ernst Kaltenbrunner , Huber was promoted to commander of the security police and SD in military district XVII. His successor as Gestapo and SD chief in Vienna was Rudolf Mildner .

The historian Thomas Mang characterizes Huber's functions as “an abundance of offices for which there was no parallel in the entire German Empire”. The historian Wolfgang Neugebauer describes Huber as one of the " main Nazi criminals " on the soil of the former Austria.

When the war ended , Huber was captured, but he was never punished. In 1949 in Nuremberg, he was classified as a "minor offender" in an award chamber procedure and received one year probation and a fine of 500 D-Marks . The verdict was overturned and Huber was sentenced to five years in a labor camp by the next instance (taking into account internment), but the convict went into hiding. In 1955, the appeal judgment was also overturned and Huber then lived unmolested in Munich. Until he retired, he worked as an accountant in an office machinery company in Munich.

literature

  • Thomas Mang: "Gestapo Headquarters Vienna - My name is Huber". Who was locally responsible for the murder of the Jews of Vienna? Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7258-0 , p. 131.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Wolfenbüttel, 62 Nds. Fb. 2, file 1733, p. 46; Note from the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office to supplement the minutes of Huber's interrogation.
  2. ↑ Thomas Mang: "Gestapo Headquarters Vienna - My name is Huber". Who was locally responsible for the murder of the Jews of Vienna? Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8258-7259-9 , p. 121.
  3. ↑ Arthur Nebe's investigation into the Georg Elser case . On: georg-elser-arbeitskreis.de. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
  4. ^ Announcements from the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance No. 164 ( PDF )
  5. ^ Emmerich Tálos , Ernst Hanisch , Wolfgang Neugebauer : Nazi rule in Austria. Vienna 2000, p. 730, ISBN 3-209-03179-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Gestapo chief in Vienna and SS brigade leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1975
Place of death Munich