Helmut Triska

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Helmut Karl Triska (* 10. February 1912 in Knittelfeld , † 1973 ) was an Austrian Nazi Party - official and diplomat in the era of National Socialism and later manager.

Life

Helmut Triska was the son of the railway clerk Vinzenz Triska. Triska joined the NSDAP while still at school in 1929 . After he had passed the Matura in 1931 , he began to study law , which he did not complete. From 1934 to 1936 he was state student leader of the National Socialist Student Union (NSDStB) in Austria. After serving a prison sentence in Vienna from 1935 to 1936, he was forbidden to continue attending Austrian universities. He then went to the German Reich and was head of the Ostmark Department of the Foreign Office of the Reich Student Leadership in Berlin . Since 1937 he was married to Johanna, nee Moth. After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” in March 1938, he became the regional authority of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Vienna, to which he had previously worked as a liaison officer for the Reich student leadership.

During the Second World War , Triska, who belonged to the SS and SD , was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1940 . Triska took over in December 1940 as Counselor in the department Germany the Foreign Office the Volkstumspolitik . From 1943 Triska did military service with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . After the occupation of Hungary by German troops - during the deportation of Jews - Triska was in 1944 at the German legation in Budapest as legation councilor for culture and ethnicity. The embassy staff was identical to Edmund Veesenmayer's staff. Triska was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in the SD in 1944 .

After the end of the war, Triska was able to go into hiding, but was later caught and was interned in Ludwigsburg and Hohenasperg from 1946 to 1948 . The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office imposed an entry ban on Triska in 1953 because of his "National Socialist activities directed against the independence of Switzerland". He had met with Swiss National Socialists in Zurich at the end of 1940 . Triska became a businessman and was a partner in ALLROP , Rohstoff- und Warenhandels GmbH in Vienna.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Döscher : The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the final solution. , Berlin 1987.
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001 ISBN 3-525-35357-X .
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 630.
  2. ↑ Horst Zimmermann: Switzerland and Greater Germany , Fink, 1980, p. 431.
  3. ^ A b c Stephen Taylor: Who's who in Austria, Volume 6, entral European Times Publishing Company Limited, 1967; P. 692.
  4. ^ A b Hans-Jürgen Döscher: The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the final solution. , Berlin 1987, p. 118.
  5. ↑ a b Frank-Rutger Hausmann: "Even in war the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Göttingen 2001, p. 49
  6. ↑ Christian Gerlach, Götz Aly: The Last Chapter - The Murder of the Hungarian Jews 1944-1945 . Frankfurt / Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-15772-2 , p. 119.
  7. ^ Triska, Helmut at the AfZ Archive for Contemporary History / Estates and Individual Holdings
  8. ^ Letter from the Federal Office of Police dated February 7, 1969: "Triska, Helmut, geb. February 10, 1912, Austrian citizen; his submission of January 12, 1969 to our embassy in Vienna » in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents of Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Triska, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Triska, Helmuth (alternative name); Triska, Helmut Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat and Nazi functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Knittelfeld
DATE OF DEATH 1973