Hermann Neubacher

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Hermann Neubacher (born June 24, 1893 in Wels , Upper Austria , † July 1, 1960 in Vienna ) was an Austrian economist and politician of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . From March 13, 1938 to December 14, 1940 he was mayor of Vienna.

Life

Hermann Neubacher was a participant in the war and as an Austro-Hungarian officer had led a Croatian company. In 1919 he submitted a dissertation on a forestry topic at what was then the Hochschule für Bodenkultur . Since his studies he was a member of the Vienna Academic Gymnastics Club . Neubacher worked in the wood industry from 1920 . He also acted in Vienna as General Director of GESIBA (non-profit settlement and building materials agency), which was significantly involved in social housing in Vienna. As a member of the "Austrian-German People's League", Neubacher agitated together with Arthur Seyß-Inquart and other Greater German politicians for the " connection " of Austria to Germany and after Adolf Hitler's " seizure of power " on January 30, 1933, he became a member of the National Socialists in the German Reich German Workers' Party in Austria .

When the Austrian National Socialists tried to do away with the Austro-Fascist corporate state with the July coup of July 25, 1934 and murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , the party went into hiding; During this phase of illegality, Neubacher temporarily took over the party leadership in Austria, but was arrested in June 1935 together with his internal party opponent Josef Leopold . Both were amnestied on the basis of the July Agreement of 1936, from then on Neubacher was "active for the Reich German IG Farben as a Balkan expert (including Austria)."

One day after Austria's "annexation" to the German Reich on March 12, 1938, Neubacher replaced Richard Schmitz as mayor of Vienna ; Vice Mayor Fritz Lahr was in office for two days . Neubacher remained mayor until December 14, 1940. Afterwards, Neubacher became an envoy in Bucharest and Athens .

On October 15, 1942, he was appointed special representative of the Reich for economic and financial questions in Greece , to whom the monopoly DEGRIGES was directly subordinate. He appointed Hektor Tsironikos as finance and super minister for all "productive resorts" , of whom he said that his "German friendliness" was beyond any doubt.

From August 24, 1943 until the end of the war, Neubacher was the special representative of the Foreign Office for the Southeast and the Southeast Military Commander in Serbia . After the end of the Second World War , he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Yugoslavia in 1951 , but released seriously ill after a few months. From 1954 to 1956 he was employed by the government of the Ethiopian Empire as an advisor and administrative commissioner for the capital Addis Ababa . During this time he wrote a book about Ethiopia, then returned to Austria and mainly worked as a building contractor in Salzburg .

Marcus J. Carney tried to portray the story of his uncle and his family and how they came to terms with them after the World War in a documentary called Film Projekt Neubacher , and transferred it to the post-war Austrian generation, who he attested to have "morbus austriacus" - the Austrian disease.

Fonts

  • The forest pension. A critical contribution to the net income problem in forestry. 1919, (Vienna, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, dissertation, 1919).
  • Battle for Central Europe. German Unity Publishing House, Vienna 1932.
  • Special order southeast. 1940-1945. Report from a flying diplomat. Musterschmidt, Göttingen et al. 1956.
  • The fortress of the lions. Ethiopia from Solomon to the present. Walter-Verlag, Olten et al. 1959.

Movie

  • Marcus J. Carney : The End of the Neubacher Project. Documentary, Austria, Netherlands, 2006, 74 min.

literature

  • Gerhard Botz :  Neubacher, Hermann Josef. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 92 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance (Ed.): "Anschluss" 1938. A documentation. Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1988.
  • Karl-Heinz Schlarp: Economy and Occupation in Serbia. 1941-1944. A contribution to the National Socialist economic policy in South Eastern Europe (= sources and studies on the history of Eastern Europe. 25). Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-515-04401-9 (Also: Hamburg, University, habilitation paper, 1983).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Rosar: German community. Seyss-Inquart and the Anschluss. Europa-Verlag, Vienna et al. 1971, ISBN 3-203-50384-0 , p. 105.
  2. ↑ Maria Zarifi: The German-Greek Research Institute of Biology in Piraeus, 1942-1944. In: Susanne Heim (Ed.): Autarkie und Ostexpansion. Plant breeding and agricultural research during National Socialism (= history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society during National Socialism. Vol. 2). Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-496-X , pp. 206-233, here p. 219, (partly available here ).
  3. ↑ Götz Aly : Hitler's People's State. Robbery, Race War and National Socialism. 5th edition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-000420-5 , p. 289.
  4. ↑ DVD forum
predecessor Office successor
Richard Schmitz Mayor of Vienna
1938 - 1940 		Philipp Wilhelm Jung
personal data
SURNAME Neubacher, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels , Upper Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1960
Place of death Vienna