Franz Peterseil

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Franz Peterseil

Franz Peterseil (born May 4, 1907 in St. Georgen an der Gusen , † November 12, 1991 in Munich ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader .

Life

After attending elementary school and community school, Franz Peterseil worked in his father's farm from March 1923 to 1928. He then belonged to the armed forces from 1928 to 1933 , from which he said he was dismissed because of his National Socialist attitude - NSDAP member since 1928 (membership number 1.208.858) - and activity. In the following years he was temporarily unemployed. Otherwise he worked as a housekeeper and as a chauffeur for the Jewish company Mostny & Brück.

In 1933, Peterseil was arrested for the first time because of his political activities. In the following years he was a leader in the illegal National Socialist military storm (terror storm) in Austria. In 1934 he was appointed SA-Sturmbannführer in the Mühlviertel and in 1935 the leader of the SA-Standarte 14 Linz , before he was entrusted with the leadership of the SA-Brigade 4 Upper Austria in 1937. After further arrests, he spent a total of 23 months and 18 days in custody within four years until 1938, eleven months of which in the Wöllersdorf detention camp , seven months in prison and five months in custody . During this time, he went on three hunger strikes of eight, seven, and six days. In addition, he was searched for a year without success. When the Linz criminal police arrested 21 participants in a meeting of the SA leaders from the Mühlviertel and Linz in a Linz inn in November 1937 , Peterseil, who was also present, managed to escape.

During the "annexation of Austria" to the National Socialist German Reich , Peterseil was in Linz hospital due to gastric surgery. Since he nevertheless wanted to attend Adolf Hitler's speech on March 12, 1938 in Linz , he had an ambulance drive him to the town hall. There he was able to speak over loudspeakers to the 60,000 people gathered in the main square. Afterwards he was visited by Hitler, this scene was captured on a photo. From April 1938 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, he was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria . He was awarded the so-called Order of Blood . On August 19, 1938, he resigned from the SA with the rank of Standartenführer and switched to the SS , where he was assigned to SS Section VIII Linz from November 9, 1938 as Standartenführer. He was appointed Gau inspector of the Gau Oberdonau in 1940 and was thus an important employee of Gau leader August Eigruber . In this role, Peterseil distinguished himself through the Aryanization of the traditional Linz company S. Spitz and the spirits and liqueur factory Mostny & Brück and was responsible for the expropriation of monasteries and monasteries in Upper Austria. He recruited staff for the Hartheim killing center , was involved in the procurement of poison gas and obtained alcohol for the stokers in the crematoria. In February 1945, as the leader of the SA “Gausturm”, he was one of the main culprits during the Mühlviertel hare hunt , during which the majority of the Soviet prisoners who had escaped from Mauthausen concentration camp were recaptured and murdered.

At the end of the war , Peterseil left with Eigruber in a motorcade and is said to have shot and killed a young lieutenant who was supposed to check the inmates. Peterseil was able to go into hiding under the pseudonym Bergmann and run a liqueur shop and laundry in Munich and build a house in Julbach. Although he was wanted as a war criminal , he was not prosecuted despite knowing his whereabouts. Amnestied in Austria in 1957, he got his confiscated property back. In mid-April 1959 he was informed by the Linz Federal Police Directorate that, apart from his political career, he had a "good repute".

Schanovsky characterized Peterseil as the type of functionary who actually made the crimes of the Nazi regime possible: “Peterseil was certainly not one of the great bloodsuckers of the Third Reich . But the farmer's son [...] belonged to those middle-class Nazi cadres who guaranteed the terrible efficiency of the totalitarian Nazi regime. "

literature

  • Franz Gindlstrasser: Franz Peterseil. A National Socialist Career , Grünbach 2003, ISBN 3-902427-01-9
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Precise date and place of death according to Josef Goldberger: "Euthanasieanstalt" Hartheim and Reichsgau Oberdonau. Involvement of administrative and party offices of the Reichsgau Upper Danube in the euthanasia program. In: Communications from the Upper Austrian Provincial Archives. Volume 19, Linz 2000, p. 370f, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  2. ↑ a b Linz police director murdered by the SS near Gallneukirchen on March 13, 2013 on http://www.mein Bezirk.at
  3. ^ Hugo Schanovsky: Once Margareten and back. Children's stories for adults , 2003, p. 213.
personal data
SURNAME Peterseil, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Georgen an der Gusen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1991
Place of death Munich