Hanns Rauscher

This article provides information about the German SA member Ha nn s Rauscher . For the Austrian journalist Ha n s Rauscher see Hans Rauscher .

Hanns Rauscher (born January 13, 1897 in Munich ; † 1961 ) was a German political activist and SA leader.

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After attending school, Rauscher learned the watchmaking trade. In his youth he took part in the First World War, in which he a. a. received the Iron Cross 2nd class. Then he belonged to the Freikorps Roßbach .

In 1921 Rauscher became a member of the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung (SA). In this he was assigned to the 1st hundred with which he participated in the Hitler putsch in November 1923.

When the NSDAP was banned in 1924, Rauscher was a member of the Frontbann organization founded by Ernst Röhm as a substitute for the SA .

A few weeks after the NSDAP was re-established in the spring of 1925, Rauscher became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the NSDAP's task force. In this he took over the leadership of the SA storm 1 Munich as storm leader. The party itself he belonged again to August 1, 1926 (membership number 45,047).

Together with Edmund Heines , the leader of SA-Sturm 9, Rauscher swung himself into the main advocate of the activist course within the Munich SA, which in the political struggle turned away from the legality strategy advocated by Adolf Hitler in favor of violent measures against the Weimar Republic demanded: After the tensions between the Heines-Rauscher group and Hitler had increased, there was a temporary break in May 1927: On May 25, 1927 the two provoked the NSDAP leader by not appearing at the general roll call of the SA. Hitler then expelled the two SA leaders by expelling them from the NSDAP by order of May 31, 1927.

On September 1, 1929, Rauscher, like Heines, was re-admitted to the NSDAP and the SA. In 1930 he took over the leadership of the SA sub-group Upper Bavaria and in February 1931 also the Gau propaganda leadership Upper Bavaria. In the SA he achieved at least the rank of standard leader in the following years.

In August 1932, Rauscher was involved in a series of terrorist explosive attacks carried out by the Silesian SA on political opponents. Here, explosives were detonated in the editorial offices of left-wing newspapers and party offices as well as in the apartments of left-wing political functionaries, causing considerable damage to property and an SS man who was killed when he prematurely created a grenade that he wanted to throw at a social democratic journalist. In the subsequent Reichenbacher explosives trial , which was heard before the regional court in Schweidnitz in November and December 1932, Rauscher, together with Edmund Heines , Hans Hayn and Fritz Staats, was charged with assisting three SA men who were accused of perpetrators or accomplices in these attacks , charged and sentenced to several months in prison. However, the amnesty issued by the Reichstag in December 1932 saved him from having to take it.

On December 1, 1935, Rauscher was assigned a zbV rank by the Führer order of the Supreme SA Leadership No. 36 of the SA Brigade 84. By the Führer order No. 54 of April 30, 1937, he was transferred to SA Brigade 79 with a zV rank.

In 1939 he was dismissed from the SA again in accordance with the Führer order of the Supreme SA Leadership No. 73 of March 30, 1939, with dismissal of his rank and position.

Promotions

• 1925: SA storm leader
• 1930: SA-Sturmbannführer
• July 1, 1932: SA Standartenführer

literature

• Mathias Rösch: The Munich NSDAP 1925–1933 , 2002.