Hubert Eisner

Hubert Eisner (born August 7, 1897 in Köflach , † unknown) was an Austrian National Socialist and district leader of Voitsberg .

Life

Eisner attended elementary school as well as secondary and technical school. He later stated that his upbringing was national. After leaving school he took over his father's mill and continued to run it profitably. In the early 1930s he turned to National Socialism . The party joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1934. Eisner saw himself as a moderate National Socialist and belonged to the group of former Heimatschützer . On February 19, 1934 he was arrested for the first time for possession of weapons. On July plot of the Nazis he did not participate actively. After the coup failed, he tried, together with other former homeland security officers, to lead the NSDAP into the Fatherland Front . This action failed, however, and Eisner was sidelined within the party. However, his good contact with Sepp Helfrich remained.

At Helfrich's suggestion, from January 1936 he again worked increasingly in the NSDAP. In June 1936 he became the illegal district leader of Voitsberg . However, he could not prevail within the party and was replaced in May 1937. Eisner himself later stated that he had differences with the course taken by the NSDAP regional leader Josef Leopold . At the time of the National Socialist takeover, Eisner was not in active party service, but according to statements by Burgenland Governor Tobias Portschy, he was still being considered for the office of district leader. Internal party resistance prevented its establishment. Eisner's official resumption of membership in the NSDAP took place retroactively as of May 1, 1938. He himself only applied for this on June 4, 1938. Eisner received the (new) membership number 6109127.

Only district leader Anton Weissensteiner persuaded him in July 1938 to work harder again in the party. Eisner's first post was the office of chairman of the working committee of the tourism district association (from December 1938 referred to as the tourism district association) Voitsberg. He certainly had experience in this field, since he helped found the tourism and beautification association Köflach and the surrounding area in May 1933 and became its first chairman. In February 1939 Eisner was personally appointed by Anton Weißensteiner to work in the district economic consultancy. A few days earlier, Eisner, also personally appointed by Weißensteiner, was a councilor in Köflach . From August 1939 he finally held the office of district economic advisor . When Weißensteiner joined the Waffen SS in April 1940, Eisner was again district leader. From November 1940 Eisner also took over the leadership of the Köflach branch. In November 1941, after Weißensteiner's second call-up for military service, he finally became district leader of Voitsberg. During this time he also ran his own mill and lived off his income as a merchant. Incidentally, he did not have the function of district leader paid. Towards the end of the war, Eisner was arrested in Köflach and transferred to Wolfsberg . In the following trial before the People's Court in Graz , Eisner was sentenced on January 9, 1948 to ten years of heavy imprisonment. A year later, his mother filed a pardon for him. This was supported, among others, by the SPÖ and the ÖVP of the Voitsberg district. Federal President Karl Renner finally granted the request and pardoned Eisner, who was then released from prison on July 22, 1949. Then he lived again in Köflach.

literature

• Martin F. Polaschek : On behalf of the Republic of Austria! The People's Courts in Styria 1945 to 1955 (= publications by the Styrian Provincial Archives, 23), Graz 1998.
• Ursula Mindler: Tobias Portschy. Biography of a National Socialist. The years up to 1945 , Eisenstadt 2006.

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• Voitsberg-Köflacher Wochenblatt, 1938–1945.
• Styrian regional archive, LGS Graz VR 5089/47.
• Office leader of Graz and Styria. 1st year, Graz 1939/1940.
• Walter Brunner (ed.), History and Topography of the Voitsberg District. Volume 2: Bezirkslexikon, Graz 2011
• Federal Archives Berlin, local group index and party correspondence, Hubert Eissner