Franz Schmid (politician, 1877)

Franz Schmid (born October 15, 1877 in Hof am Leithaberge , † June 27, 1953 in Baden ) was an Austrian politician and post office director. Schmid was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 1932 to 1933 . Between 1938 and 1945 he was also politically active as a NSDAP member.

Live and act

Schmid attended the teacher training college in Wiener Neustadt , but then joined the post office. He moved to Baden in 1911 and was promoted to post office director. In 1919 Schmid founded the local group Baden of the NSDAP, between 1926 and 1933 he held the functions of district and district leader one after the other. He was also a member of the municipal council between 1924 and 1933 and represented the NSDAP in the state parliament between May 21, 1932 and June 23, 1933. In addition, from 1932 to 1933 he was district leader of the party. His mandate expired when the NSDAP was banned in 1933. He was also a member of the SA , in which he achieved the rank of Obersturmbannführer.

After Schmid was briefly imprisoned in 1933, he continued to work illegally politically. After the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich , he took over the office of mayor of Baden between 1939 and 1945 and was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag between July 1939 and 1945 . At the end of the war in 1945 he fled to Upper Austria , later to the Waldviertel and from 1952 lived again in Baden.

literature

• Lower Austria Landtag Directorate (ed.): Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Landtag and the Lower Austrian provincial government 1921–2000 (= Lower Austria publications. Volume 128). Lower Austria Landtag Directorate , St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2 .
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).

Web links

• Franz Schmid (politician, 1877) on the website of the Lower Austria state parliament