Franz von Hörauf

Franz Ritter von Hörauf (around 1928).

Franz Hörauf , from 1916 Ritter von Hörauf , (born July 16, 1878 in Landau in the Palatinate , † December 8, 1957 in Munich ) was a German officer , most recently major general in World War II , a politician of the NSDAP and SA leader .

Life and activity

Early life and World War I

Hörauf was a son of the barracks inspector Ferdinand Hörauf and his wife Elise, nee Buhl. Hörauf married Carola Schwarzmaier in 1921.

After graduating from high school in 1896 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Hörauf joined the 10th Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig" of the Bavarian Army in Ingolstadt on July 14, 1896 as a two-year-old volunteer and flag junior .

From March 1, 1897 to February 1, 1898, Hörauf was assigned to the Munich War School and then promoted to lieutenant on March 6, 1898 . From December 18, 1905, Hörauf served as a regimental adjutant and as such was first lieutenant on October 26, 1907 . From October 1, 1908 to September 30, 1911, Hörauf graduated from the War Academy , which made him qualified for the General Staff. As a result, from August 26, 1912, he was a member of the staffs of the 6th Cavalry Brigade , the 6th Field Artillery Brigade and the 6th Division , before he was transferred to the Central Office of the General Staff on October 1, 1912. There he was promoted to captain on October 28, 1912. From April 1, 1913, Hörauf returned to the War Academy and taught tactics there until the institute was closed.

At the beginning of the First World War Hörauf was General Staff Officer at the III. Army corps with which he served in Lorraine and France. From there, on May 21, 1915, he was transferred to the General Staff of the Alpine Corps . From July 21, 1916, Hörauf was first general staff officer of the 12th Division . For his services during the campaign against Romania Hörauf was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order on November 11, 1916 . Associated with this was the elevation to the personal nobility and he was allowed to call himself Ritter von Hörauf after being entered in the nobility register .

As a major (since January 17, 1917) he was commanded in December 1917 by the Army Group "Crown Prince Rupprecht" before taking up the position of Ia of the I. Reserve Corps on January 30, 1918 .

Weimar Republic and the Nazi era

After the end of the war, he was briefly transferred to the 1st Division on December 24, 1918 , before joining the Epp Freikorps on March 11 . He was then taken over into the provisional Reichswehr and served there first as an Ia in the staff of Reichswehr Brigade 21, then from October 1, 1920 in the same function with the staff of Infantry Leader VII Battalion of the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment , promoted him to lieutenant colonel on July 1, 1921 and finally appointed him on October 1, 1921, battalion commander. From October 1, 1923 to January 11, 1924 he worked as a teacher at the Infantry School in Munich before he was made available to the 7th (Bavarian) Division and then transferred to the staff of Group Command 2 from April 1, 1924. On August 1, 1925, Hörauf worked for the staff of the 21st (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment and was promoted to colonel on February 1, 1926 .

Hörauf was released from this post on January 31, 1928, retired from active service and at the same time promoted to major general.

Franz Ritter von Hörauf as a participant in a field service during the Harzburg conference (1931), between Ernst Röhm and Hermann Göring.

At the end of the 1920s, Hörauf joined the NSDAP and the SA. Around 1931 Hörauf was appointed head of the SA schools and head of Department I in the management staff. In this function he belonged to the SA supreme leadership with the rank of SA group leader . There, Hörauf, who was a supporter of Gregor Strasser , also had the task of supervising the SA Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm on behalf of the party. As an old monarchist, Hörauf also had relationships with the former Crown Prince Wilhelm , to whom he regularly sent internal information from the Brown House . B. in December 1932, when he informed the Crown Prince of the impending financial collapse of the NSDAP.

Before the start of World War II was adjusted Hörauf from August 26, 1939 are available and named him after the occupation of Lodz the city commander . On January 31, 1943, he was transferred to the Führerreserve and his mobilization provision was then lifted on March 31, 1943.

post war period

After the end of the war, Hörauf was interned from September 1, 1945 to April 30, 1948. Through the verdict of the ruling chamber for the Hammelburg camp on April 29, 1948, he was initially classified in denazification group III ("less polluted") as part of the denazification process. By a ruling by the main chamber in Munich, Rosenheim branch, on March 8, 1949, he was subsequently classified in group IV ("fellow travelers").

Awards

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords
Bavarian Military Merit Order III. class
Bavarian Service Award Cross II. Class
Hessian bravery medal
Mecklenburg War Merit Cross, 2nd class
Order of the Iron Crown III. Class with the war decoration
Austrian Military Merit Cross III. Class with the war decoration

Archival tradition

In the Federal Archives, personnel records on Hörauf have been preserved in the holdings of the former Berlin Document Center . In the Munich State Archives, a thin ruling chamber file on Hörauf from the post-war period is in turn. a. contains a copy of the complaint filed by the Hammelburg camp judgment chamber against Hörauf (judgment chamber files, cardboard box 2163, therein sheet collection "Hörauf, Franz Ritter von"). Further documents on his internment can be found in the Würzburg State Archives.

literature

Dermot Bradley (Ed.): The Generals of the Army 1921-1945. Volume 6: Hochbaum-Klutmann. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2002.
Othmar Hackl : The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 475.
Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: Virtuti pro Patria. Self-published by the Royal Bavarian Military Max Joseph Order. Munich 1966.

Individual evidence

^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1895/96.
↑ Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 475.
↑ Andreas Dornheim: Röhm's man for abroad , passim.
^ Joachim Petzold: Franz von Papen. 1995, p. 146.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1925. p. 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Listen up, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Listen up, Franz Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer, politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	December 8, 1957
Place of death	Munich

[1] Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1895/96.

[2] Othmar Hackl: The Bavarian War Academy (1867-1914). CH Beck´sche publishing house bookstore. Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-10490-8 . P. 475.

[3] Andreas Dornheim: Röhm's man for abroad , passim.

[4] Joachim Petzold: Franz von Papen. 1995, p. 146.

[Rangliste1925-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ranking list of the German Imperial Army. Ed .: Reichswehr Ministry . Mittler & Sohn publishing house . Berlin 1925. p. 117.