Hermann Foppa

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Hermann Foppa (born June 18, 1882 in Sillian , Tyrol ; † February 18, 1959 in Schruns , Vorarlberg ) was an Austrian politician . As a member of the Greater German People's Party in Austria , he was a member of the Austrian National Council from 1930 to 1934 . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1938 and entered the German Reichstag for the NSDAP in the same year .

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Early life (1882 to 1933)

After attending elementary school in Lienz in Tyrol and grammar school in Bozen , Foppa studied law and philosophy at the University of Graz and the University of Innsbruck . In 1905 he became a member of the Corps Gothia Innsbruck .

In 1911 he qualified for the teaching post for secondary schools in 1911. From 1911 to 1913 he earned his living as a teacher of history and geography. He then taught from 1913 to 1938 as a professor at the Realschule and at the Academic Gymnasium in Linz.

1915 Foppa took the war as a volunteer Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War in part. In 1915 he fought first on the Italian front , then from June 1915 to May 1917 he worked on an unknown front as a team member with the Tyrolean Standschützen . From May 1917 until the end of the war he was finally assigned to the III Body Rifle Regiment as an ensign.

Austrian Republic and Nazi Era (1919 to 1945)

After the end of the war, Foppa returned to his old profession as a history professor. Among his students in the 1920s was Adolf Hitler's niece , Geli Raubal . Foppa met the future German dictator through Raubal's mediation in Munich in the summer of 1927 , where Raubal's class went on their graduation trip under Foppa's supervision.

Foppa has been politically active since the early 1920s in the Greater German People's Party of Austria , which campaigned for the " annexation of Austria " to the German Reich and was its last chairman from 1931 to 1933. From 1930 to 1934 he was also a member of the Austrian National Council , in which the Greater German faction had formed a fighting community with the Austrian section of the NSDAP since 1933.

After the "Anschluss of Austria" to the German Reich in March 1938, Foppa, who had been a member of the Nazi teachers ' association since March , was appointed state school inspector for the higher education system in Upper Austria. In May 1938 he officially joined the NSDAP. From April 1938 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Foppa was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria .

From 1938 Foppa was Gau propaganda and Gau training speaker for the party. In addition, he was the Gau leader's liaison to the Foreign Office and eventually became head of the Gau headquarters.

Post-war period (1945 to 1959)

After the Second World War , Foppa was interned temporarily in Glasenbach and retired into private life after his release. A criminal case against Foppa before the People's Court in Linz in 1948 was settled on the intercession of Foppa 's teacher colleagues. After 1949 he was active in the party Association of Independents and was involved in right-wing extremist circles. In 1954 he was the main speaker at a memory hour for Franz Langoth in the Linz State Theater. Later he was federal chairman of the Glasenbacher charity. In 1950, Foppa was the godfather of the later FPÖ / BZÖ politician Jörg Haider .

literature

  • Harry Slapnicka: Upper Austria - The political leadership 1918 to 1938. Upper Austrian state publisher, Linz 1976, ISBN 3-85214-163-x , p. 85f.
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 73 , 110
  2. ↑ Anna Maria Sigmund : Die Frauen der Nazis , Vol. 1, 1998, p. 136.
  3. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - who was was in the Third Reich, Kiel 2000, p. 140.
  4. ↑ Hubert Gaisbauer: Unverloren - in spite of everything , 200, p. 32.

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personal data
SURNAME Foppa, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, member of the National Council
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Sillian , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1959
Place of death Schruns