Hans Schmidhofer

Hans Schmidhofer

Hans Schmidhofer (born June 8, 1912 in Alkoven near Eferding , † spring 1945 in western Hungary) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending elementary school and civic school in Eserding learned Schmidhofer the merchant trade.

Schmidhofer belonged to the NSDAP since the spring of 1933. From December 1933 to July 26, 1934 he was storm leader of the SA . Because of his participation in the July coup of the Austrian National Socialists against the Dollfuss government , he was arrested on July 26, 1934 and charged with insurrection and possession of explosives: for the first charge he was imprisoned for eight years on October 4, 1934, and on November 24 for the second Sentenced to death in 1934. The latter sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on January 6, 1935. During his imprisonment, Schmidhofer trained himself further. On February 18, 1938, one month before the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich , he was finally released from the Garsten prison . A few weeks later, on March 20, 1938, he was appointed district leader in Eferding. He also became district administrator in Rohrbach .

From April 1938 until the end of the Nazi regime, Schmidhofer also sat as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria . Schmidhofer took part in the Second World War as a soldier from 1940 . He died in western Hungary in the spring of 1945.

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 .
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .

Web links

• Hans Schmidhofer in the database of members of the Reichstag