Helmut Breymann

Helmut Breymann

Helmut Breymann (born February 9, 1911 in Trieste , then part of Austria ; † July 27, 1944 near Narwa (fallen)) was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

Helmut Breymann attended elementary school in Aurolzmünster in Upper Austria and in Sankt Michael in Styria from 1918 to 1922 , then until 1930 the secondary school in Oberschützen in Burgenland. After the matriculation examination in 1930, he studied for three semesters Jura .

During his school days Breymann co-founded a national middle school association that was later banned. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 511.358); In 1931 he also joined the SA , in which in 1933 he achieved the rank of SA Sturmbannführer and on January 30, 1934 that of SA standard leader. Until 1934 he held various party functions at local and regional level in the party and the SA. From 1930 he worked as a municipal administrator, but was dismissed in 1932 for his political activities; In the following years he was partly unemployed, partly as a laborer. On June 19, 1933, he was arrested at the same time as the NSDAP was banned in Austria. In August 1933 Breymann managed to escape, from March 1934 to March 1935 he was imprisoned again and was held in the Messendorf detention camp , in the Wöllersdorf detention camp and at the district court in Wiener Neustadt . From May 1935 to September 1936 Breymann was deputy Gau leader and Gau organization head of the illegal NSDAP for the Gau Burgenland . In August 1935 he joined the SS (membership number 292.791) and headed the SS-Sturmbann Burgenland. From 1937, Breymann was wanted again by the Austrian authorities for high treason and for the murder of a former party friend.

After the so-called " Anschluss " of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938, Breymann was temporarily director of security in Eisenstadt and state supervisory commissioner of Kurbad AG in Bad Tatzmannsdorf . On April 10, 1938, Breymann received a mandate in the German Reichstag . Promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer on March 12, 1938, he was temporarily leader of the staff of SS Section XXXV in Graz and then from November 1, 1938 to January 9, 1944 full-time leader of the 11th SS standard in Vienna .

On October 3, 1939, Breymann joined the reserve battalion of the SS regiment “Der Führer” of the SS disposable troops. The Waffen-SS emerged from the SS disposable troops in 1940 ; on August 1, 1940, Breymann was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer of the reserve in the Waffen-SS. From April 10 to November 9, 1941 he was reserve leader in the SS volunteer standard "Northwest". From this unit emerged, among other things, the Flemish Legion , to which Breymann was from November 9, 1941 in the rank of Obersturmführer of the Waffen-SS. In the General SS he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer on April 20, 1943, in the Waffen-SS on April 20, 1944 to SS-Sturmbannführer of the reserve. Most recently, Breymann was in command of the 2nd Battalion of the 48th Regiment of the 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Nederland" ; he died fighting over the Narva bridgehead .

Breymann was considered missing until the end of the war, so his seat in the Reichstag was not filled again. It was only later that it became clear about his war death; the district court of Vienna declared him dead on October 13, 1949.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the national and national socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , pp. 63–64.
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of Austria in the Greater German Reichstag. In: Communications from the Austrian State Archives, 48, 2000.
• Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads: who was what in the 3rd Reich. 2nd edition, Arndt-Verlag, Kiel 1985. ISBN 3-88741-117-X .
• Bernd Diroll: Personal Lexicon of the NSDAP. Volume 1: SS-Führer AB. Patzwall, Norderstedt 1998. ISBN 3-931533-38-7 .

Web links

• Helmut Breymann in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Wechselberger , website regiowiki.at, accessed on February 19, 2015