Josef Fitzthum

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Josef Fitzthum (1938 or earlier)

Josef Fitzthum (born September 14, 1896 in Loimersdorf ; † January 10, 1945 in Wiener Neudorf ) was an Austrian SS group leader , lieutenant general of the Waffen-SS and police, politician and representative of the Reichsführer SS for Albania .

Life

Fitzthum, son of the kk administrator Josef Fitzthum and Elisabeth Bäumle , both from the Mogolzen district of Bischofteinitz (West Bohemia), graduated from the Austrian military lower secondary school, upper secondary school and academy after attending primary school.

From 1916 he took part as a lieutenant on Austria's side in the First World War in the 3rd Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger and was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown as the first lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army . After he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1917 , he was employed on the Italian front with Fliegerkompanie 17 until the end of the war. In mid-January 1919 he was discharged from the army and from 1920 he was employed in the civil service. From March 1923 to 1933 he worked as a secretary at the Vienna School of Applied Arts .

Fitzthum joined the NSDAP ( membership number 363.169) in April 1931 and the SS (SS number 41.936) in May 1932 . He joined the XI in the spring of 1932. SS standard in Vienna and carried it from September 1932 for six months. He was arrested in 1933 for his involvement in attacks with a Nazi background. He was u. a. interned in detention camps (including in the Kaisersteinbruch and Wöllersdorf ), from which he was freed twice by SS units. After his expatriation from Austria, he was a full-time SS leader in the German Reich from March 1936 . First he was with the SS standard "Germania" from May 1936 and led the 58th SS standard from the beginning of January to the end of September 1937, based in Cologne.

From October 1937 to March 1938 he worked at the SD Main Office. After the " Anschluss of Austria " he was Deputy Police President of Vienna from March 12, 1938 , until he was released from this post in March 1940 for corruption in the course of aryanization business . From 1938 he was a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP in the National Socialist Reichstag in the 11th electoral term . Fitzthum was married from 1937 and the marriage had two children.

In April 1940 he was transferred to the Waffen-SS and became the commander of SS-Totenkopfstandarten and SS-infantry regiments. From mid-April 1942 to May 1943 he worked in the Netherlands as a commander for the establishment of voluntary associations of the Waffen SS in the Netherlands and Flanders . From October 1943 to January 1, 1945 he was the representative of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler for Albania with his seat in Tirana (also led as Higher SS and Police Leader Albania ). From April to June 1944 he was also the commander of the 21st Waffen-Gebirgs-Division of the SS "Skanderbeg" (Albanian No. 1) . From January 3 to 10, 1945 he was division commander of the 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Horst Wessel" .

On January 10, 1945, Fitzthum was killed in a car accident in Wiener Neudorf . His grave at Vienna's Grinzinger Friedhof was acquired by the City of Vienna's Department of Culture in 1945 and dedicated for the duration of the cemetery.

Awards

Fitzthum's SS ranks
date rank
November 1932 SS-Sturmbannführer
November 1933 SS-Obersturmbannführer
March 1936 SS standard leader
March 1938 SS-Oberführer
April 1940 SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
January 1941 SS-Sturmbannführer of the reserve (Waffen-SS)
April 1942 SS-Obersturmbannführer of the reserve (Waffen-SS)
November 1942 SS-Standartenführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
October 1943 SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS and Police
August 1944 SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS

literature

  • Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .
  • Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Josef Fitzthum in the database of the members of the Reichstag
  2. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 185
  3. ↑ a b Josef Fitzthum ( memento of October 26, 2009 on WebCite ) at Axis Biographical Research (English); in the WebCite archive
  4. ↑ a b c Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 154
  5. ↑ Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Düsseldorf 1986, p. 333
  6. ^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 410
personal data
SURNAME Fitzthum, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS and Police, politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Loimersdorf (Engelhartstetten community)
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1945
Place of death Wiener Neudorf