Herbert Parson

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Herbert Parson (born February 21, 1907 in Berlin ; † unknown) was deputy NSDAP Gauleiter of the Tyrol-Vorarlberg district under Franz Hofer from 1939 to 1945 .

Life

Parson was born as an American citizen in Berlin and grew up in Hallein . In 1924 he was naturalized in Austria . He attended the state high school in Salzburg and studied at the Technical University of Vienna with a degree in engineering.

Until the NSDAP ban in 1933, Parson was deputy Gauleiter of Salzburg under Gauleiter Karl Scharizer . Parson was arrested on June 13, 1933 in the course of a wave of arrests by National Socialists following a wave of attacks in Salzburg, but was released shortly afterwards. Parson and Scharizer fled to Freilassing , close to the border , from where they smuggled leaflets and propaganda to Salzburg. Then he, like Scharizer, was employed by the NSDAP refugee aid organization in Berlin; he headed the membership office there.

In August 1938, Parson came to Innsbruck to head Franz Hofer's party chancellery. In March 1939 he was appointed Gauleiter-Deputy for the Gaus Tirol-Vorarlberg and remained in this position until the end of the war in May 1945. He was also an SS-Standartenführer .

After the war, Parson was interned and tried on May 18, 1949 in the course of denazification at the Innsbruck People's Court . Despite his high political position, like his predecessor as Gauleiter Deputy Edmund Christoph , he was not charged by the Innsbruck public prosecutor's office under Section 6 of the War Crimes Act (KGV), which was intended for "authors and ringleaders" and a minimum sentence of ten years Imprisonment up to the death penalty. In court he was also acquitted of the charge of incitement to war by calling for “total war, fanaticism and hatred” in the context of political leadership training. He was only sentenced to five years of heavy imprisonment and financial collapse under Section 11 of the Prohibition Act for his illegal activities in the NSDAP. At Christmas 1949, Parson was given amnesty after serving most of his imprisonment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst Schreiber : The takeover of power. The National Socialists in Tyrol 1938/39 . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85218-152-6 , p. 131 .
  2. ↑ Michael E. Holzmann: Völkischer Nationalismus in Österreich to 1933 (=  The Austrian SA and their illusion of Greater Germany . Volume 1 ). Pro Business, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86386-086-8 , pp. 131 .
  3. ↑ Oskar Dohle: Restless Border - Restless Neighbors. Salzburg and Bavaria 1918–1938 against the backdrop of the rise of the NSDAP. Retrieved December 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Uwe Baur, Karin Gradwohl-Schlachter: Literature in Austria 1938–1945. Manual of a literary system . tape 3 . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79508-7 , pp. 240 .
  5. ↑ a b Thomas Albrich: Gauleiter Hofer and the "brown elite" of Gaus Tirol-Vorlarlberg in the sights of post-war justice . In: Yearbook of contemporary legal history . tape 8 . Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8305-1471-8 , pp. 37 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Parson, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century