Höttinger Saalschlacht

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The Höttinger Saalschlacht took place on May 27, 1932 between National Socialists on the one hand and members of the Republican Protection Association and communists on the other in Hötting (now a district of Innsbruck ). It was triggered by a National Socialist rally in the traditionally “red” Hötting, which, against the background of the political polarization in the First Republic, had to be interpreted by the left as a deliberate provocation. In the following mass brawl, SA man Sylvester Fink was killed by a knife stab in the heart, and 38 people were injured.

During the night there were further violent clashes throughout the city. The former party office of the National Socialists in Wilten was shot at and the injured from the different camps clashed in the state hospital. In addition, the Heimwehr founder Richard Steidle was pelted with stones by an angry crowd while driving home in the tram.

The aggressive campaign style of the NSDAP and the constant search for confrontation with the political opponent by the SA brought it the desired success. The battle in the hall with the dead National Socialist increased the influx of the NSDAP in Tyrol and led to solidarity among the “anti-Marxist” parties. There was a rapprochement between the NSDAP and the Tyrolean Home Guard together in the fight against " Marxism ".

Since 2012 there has been an initiative that deals with the commemoration of the Höttinger Saalschlacht.

literature

  • Michael Gehler : The early NSDAP as a marginal size and the Höttinger Saalschlacht 1932 as a turning point. In: Tyrol in the 20th century from the crown land to the European region. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2009, pp. 118–122.
  • Michael Gehler: "We'll show it to the Nazis!" The Höttinger Saalschlacht of May 27, 1932. In: Thomas Albrich (Ed.): Tirol und der Anschluss. Requirements - developments - framework conditions 1918–1938. Haymon, Innsbruck 1988, ISBN 3-85218-034-1 , pp. 271-306.
  • Rauchegger Andreas / Schönpflug Ingo: Meeting point at the Golden Bear tavern. The varied history of the Kammerhof in Hötting . Studia, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7030-0964-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Schreiber : The successes of the NSDAP. In: Derselbe (Ed.): National Socialism and Fascism in Tyrol and South Tyrol. Victims, perpetrators, opponents. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4423-8 , p. 36.
  2. ↑ Horst Schreiber : The takeover of power. The National Socialists in Tyrol 1938/39. (= Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte Volume 10) Haymon, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85218-152-6 , pp. 21 and 160.
  3. ↑ Josefine Justic: The Höttinger brawl. In: Innsbruck city news from April 24, 1985; No. 4, p. 24. ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Again on the Höttinger Saalschlacht on May 27, 1932. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten of July 17, 1985; No. 7, pp. 10-12. ( Digitized version )
  5. ^ Herbert Wagner: National liberal groupings in Tyrol from 1870 to 1934. Formation of national groups from 1870 to 1918. The "First Republic" 1918 to 1938, with their national interest groups. The Tyrolean state parliament, the parties with the military associations, the federal army in 1920. The end of the “Greater German Party”. The conception of the corporate state. Innverlag, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3-85123-116-3 , p. 66.
  6. ↑ Heidemarie Uhl : Between Reconciliation and Disturbance. A controversy about Austria's historical identity fifty years after the “Anschluss”. Böhlau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-205-05419-9 , p. 310.
  7. ^ Website of the AK Saalschlacht initiative