Hans Malzacher

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Hans Malzacher (born October 14, 1896 in Traisen , Lower Austria ; † October 16, 1974 in Villach , Carinthia ) was an Austrian mining specialist .

Life

Hans Malzacher studied mining at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben and began his professional career in the Lower Austrian industry in 1920. From 1929 he worked in the management of Schoeller-Bleckmann-Werke , later a consultant at Creditanstalt and from 1936 general director of Simmering-Graz-Pauker -AG. At the beginning of the thirties, Malzacher belonged to the Heimwehr and soon turned to their folkish Styrian wing .

After the Anschluss, Malzacher was appointed general director of the Alpine Mining Company and was involved in the development of the Reichswerke AG Alpine Mining Company "Hermann Göring" in Linz , of which he was also director from 1938 to 1941. From 1942 to 1945 he was general director of the Teschen mountain hut . In 1943 Malzacher became curator of the Association of German Engineers (VDI). In 1945 he became deputy to the armaments minister Albert Speer and armaments plenipotentiary for the Southeast District , which included Silesia, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , Austria and Northern Italy.

After the end of the war, the American occupation forces reinstated him as managing director of the Alpine Montangesellschaft in Linz in June 1945, but in October he was arrested by the Austrian authorities as a suspected war criminal and spent the time until 1947 in various internment camps. In 1946 he testified as a witness in the Nuremberg war crimes trial against Albert Speer. Malzacher himself was never charged and released in 1947. He then worked in the establishment of the Tiroler Röhren- und Metallwerke AG in Solbad Hall and became its chairman of the supervisory board. a. the supervisory board of VÖEST and the Steyr Daimler Puch -Werke. In 1957 he became an honorary professor in Leoben.

In 1949 he became a corps loop bearer at Schacht Leoben .

Honors

Autobiography

  • Encounters on my path in life , 2 volumes. Villach 1967/1971

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Ludwig: The VDI as an object of party politics 1933 to 1945 . In: Karl-Heinz Ludwig (Ed.): Technology, Engineers and Society - History of the Association of German Engineers 1856–1981 . VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-18-400510-0 , p. 424-425 .
  2. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Geschichte/M/Der+N%C3%BCrnberger+Proze%C3%9F/Indizes/Personen-Index/M
  3. ^ Walter Wiltschegg: The home guard . Vienna, 1985, p. 354.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 153/253.
personal data
SURNAME Malzacher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian montanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Traisen , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1974
Place of death Villach , Carinthia