Hans Lukesch

Hans Lukesch

Johannes "Hans" Ivo Hermann Lukesch (born January 2, 1901 in Hadersdorf near Vienna ; † March 13, 1994 in Traun , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending primary school and high school in Vienna, Hans Lukesch studied forestry for six semesters at the Austrian University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences . He then worked for a year as a Forstadjutant in Romania . During his studies he became a member of the Hubertus Vienna fraternity in 1921 , and in 1936 he became an honorary member of the Alemannia Vienna fraternity .

At the beginning of March 1925, Lukesch joined the Austrian army . After he was dismissed from the engineer force as a pioneer lieutenant in 1929, he was accepted into the aviation force in 1932, where he was entrusted with duties as an aircraft observer and pilot. According to his own statements, he was released from the Austrian army at the end of August 1933 because of his National Socialist sentiments; he joined the NSDAP in February 1931.

Instead, Lukesch began to work in the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1934 he was imprisoned for four months in the Wöllersdorf detention center - probably because of his involvement in the National Socialist July coup in Vienna . Later he was successively appointed Leader of the SA Brigade Lower Austria , Deputy Leader of the Upper Group Austria and in 1935 the Leader of the Upper Group Austria. From April 1935 to November 1936 he was arrested again. From February 12, 1938 to March 17, 1938, Lukesch was again the leader of the Upper Austria Group. During the Anschluss of Austria , on March 11, 1938, he commanded the SA unit which surrounded Ballhausplatz . Subsequently, he officiated as provisional group leader of the Austrian national group of the Reich Air Protection Association .

Promoted to brigade leader in the SA in 1938, he switched to the Reich Labor Service (RAD), for which he led the working districts of Carinthia and Styria. In 1943 he was promoted to general labor leader and head of Arbeitsgau XXXVI (Südmark).

From April 1938 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Lukesch was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria .

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 325-327.
• Peter Broucek (ed.): A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau . Volume 2: Minister in the corporate state and general in the OKW , Vienna a. a. 1983, p. 344.

Web links

• Hans Lukesch in the database of members of the Reichstag