Gustav Nohel

Gustav Nohel (born July 19, 1896 in Sedlnit , Moravia, † June 20, 1962 in Gmunden ) was an Austro-German politician and SA functionary, most recently in the rank of SA brigade leader . Among other things, Nohel was councilor of the city of Linz .

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Nohel was the son of a farmer. After attending elementary school and a community school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Pichler company in Linz. He then worked from 1913 to 1915 as a commercial clerk at Stadtlbauer in Wels.

From 1915 to 1918 Nohel took part in the First World War with the Austro-Hungarian Army . From 1920 to 1928 he then worked as a branch manager of the Meindl company in Linz. This was followed by four years of commercial activity in an unspecified position.

Politically, Nohel had already moved closer to the NSDAP in 1920 : From 1920 to 1925, he acted as swarm and platoon commander of the party's police force in Linz. He became a party member for the first time in 1921. After the party was re-founded in 1925, he became a member again on October 8, 1926 ( membership number 50,636). In the meantime, from 1925 to 1926, he was the regional commander of the Patriotic Protection Association of Upper Austria. From 1926 to 1931 he took on various functions as local group and district leader.

In 1931 Nohel became a full-time employee of the Sturmabteilung (SA). In this he took over the leadership of the SA standard 5 in Linz, before he took over the SA standard 14 (Upper Austria) from July 1, 1931 to July 15, 1934.

From 1931 to 1931 Nohel was a member of the Linz municipal council. In the NSDAP, he served from 1932 until the party was banned in Austria in 1933 as a district association leader in Linz and then until July 1934 as the deputy district leader of the party, which continued to exist illegally in the underground. Due to his activities during these years, he was temporarily detained by the Austrian authorities on June 19, 1933.

In 1935 Nohel fled to the German Reich , where he joined the Austrian Legion . From July 15, 1934 to November 30, 1936 he acted as head of the department for "Weltanschauung and culture" in the command staff of the Legion with the rank of SA standard leader .

On December 1, 1936, Nohel was appointed staff leader of the SA Group Westmark and in this position was promoted to SA Oberführer. He was based in Koblenz , his superior, the leader of the group, was Günther Gräntz .

After the annexation of Austria , Nohel was commissioned in March 1938 to take over the function of staff leader of the SA Group Austria. In April 1938 he also ran unsuccessfully on the "List of the Führer for the Greater German Reichstag" as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag .

On May 1, 1938, Nohel was appointed deputy leader of the SA group Alpenland , which he remained until April 1, 1939. He then took over the leadership of SA Brigade 94 (Upper Danube) in Upper Austria as a representative.

In April 1939 Gustav Nohel appointed his own brother Vinzenz Nohel and other people to his office on Freiheitsstrasse. Then the group of people went with Gustav Nohel to a person named Kaufmann in the Linz country house , where the group of people was employed as workers for the construction and operation of the Hartheim killing center .

In February 1939 Nohel became councilor of the city of Linz. He held this position until May 1945. He was also appointed to the Gau Colonial Council for the Reichsgau Upper Danube .

On October 4, 1940, Nohel joined the Wehrmacht as a war volunteer . After his assignment to a convalescent company (I / 133) in April 1941, he again took over the deputy leadership of the SA group Alpenland in July 1941. Besides, he belonged to the II. Replacement building of the I. Regiment 133 in Linz.

From 1948 Nohel worked as a worker for VÖEST .

literature

• Hans Schafranek : Mercenaries for the "Anschluss". The Austrian Legion 1933-1938 , Vienna 2011, especially p. 435.