Franz Langoth

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Franz Langoth

Franz Langoth (born August 20, 1877 in Linz ; † April 17, 1953 there ) was an Austrian teacher, sergeant and politician. From January 1, 1944 to May 7, 1945, he was Lord Mayor of the City of Linz .

Life

Franz Langoth was born the son of a flour dealer and miller in Linz and had six brothers. In his hometown he attended elementary and secondary school and completed a teacher training after the end of his school career. After attending the Linz teacher training institute and passing the elementary school teacher examination in 1898, he became an elementary school teacher in Windischgarsten , Hinterstoder and Kirchdorf an der Krems . After the subject teacher examination in Linz in 1903, he became a citizen school teacher . Most recently he was principal school director.

In 1896 he became a member of the Upper Austrian teachers' association. From 1909 to 1934 Langoth was a German national member of the Upper Austrian state parliament . From 1911 to 1938 he was chairman of the German People's Federation for Upper Austria. These activities were interrupted from 1914 to 1918, when he was a soldier in the Imperial Army in World War I served. After the war he was a member of the Upper Austrian provincial government until 1934 (1918–1931 Deputy Governor, 1931–1934 Provincial Councilor) and until 1933 a security officer in the Upper Austrian provincial government. He was also a member of the regional school board from 1919 to 1934 and regional party chairman of the Greater German People's Party in Upper Austria from 1920 to 1934 . As early as 1933 - the NSDAP had been banned in Austria at that time - he was one of the initiators of the “fighting alliance” between the Greater German People's Party and the NSDAP.

From 1934 to 1938 he was head of the "Aid Organization Langoth" for Nazi partisans. After the annexation of Austria he was accepted into the SS with the rank of SS-Oberführer and on May 1, 1938 formally accepted into the NSDAP (membership number 6.240.313). From 1938 to 1939 he was head of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) in Austria, which, under the guise of welfare, only supported people who represented the "correct" political opinion and belonged to the correct "race". From 1938 to 1943 he headed the NSV in Upper Danube . From 1938 to 1945 he was also a member of the “ Greater German Reichstag ”. His nickname "Father Langgoth" was established through Hermann Göring . Langoth was a judge at the People's Court from 1940 to 1944 and pronounced 118 guilty verdicts, including 41 death sentences, in 51 proceedings involving a total of 125 defendants. At the end of January 1944 he was promoted to SS brigade leader and had been Lord Mayor of Linz since November 1943.

At the end of the war, he was deposed as mayor on May 7, 1945 and was interned in Glasenbach by the US occupying forces until he was released due to illness in May 1947 . Although there were investigations under the War Crimes and Prohibition Act , no charges were brought. In 1950 he was amnestied by the Federal President . True to his convictions, he initiated the Social Peace Work for incriminated National Socialists in 1949 . In 1951 his memoirs Kampf um Österreich, Memoirs of a Politician, appeared . In December 1951 he became the first honorary member of the Association of Independents .

After his death on April 20, 1954, Mayor Ernst Koref gave a commemorative speech in the Linz municipal council. He was considered a “good Nazi” - in 1973 a street in Linz was even named after him. It was not until the 1980s that this picture began to be revised. In 1986 Langothstrasse was renamed Kaisergasse.

Langoth had been married since 1910 and had two children.

Works

  • Battle for Austria. Memories of a politician . Welsermühl, Wels 1951

literature

  • The municipal council of the city of Linz from 1848 to the present. History - biographies. Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt Gutenberg, Linz 1968, p. 189 f.
  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals. Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
  • Georg Grüll : The Linz mayor's book. Municipal Collections of the City of Linz, Linz 1953.
  • Walter Schuster: German national, National Socialist, denazified. Franz Langoth, a Nazi career. Archive of the City of Linz, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-900388-79-2 .

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predecessor Office successor
Leopold Sturma Lord Mayor of Linz
1943–1945 		Ernst Koref
personal data
SURNAME Langoth, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, NCO and politician (GDVP, NSDAP), member of the state parliament, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1953
Place of death Linz