Josef Kimmel

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Josef Kimmel (born May 28, 1897 in Meedl , Sternberg district , Moravia , † February 18, 1982 in Vienna ) was an Austrian gendarmerie general and lawyer.

Josef Kimmel attended high school in Vienna and then studied at the University of Vienna . From 1915 he served as a volunteer in the First World War . After the war he graduated from the University of Graz , where he 1919 Dr. iur doctorate . In February 1919 he joined the gendarmerie. 1924–1926 he attended the Graz Gendarmerie Academy. Until 1932 he was head of the Gendarmerie School in Vienna. He then was General Director for Public Security until October 1934 .

As a close colleague of Kurt Schuschnigg , the Catholic-conservative Kimmel was his deputy at the head of the Ostmark storm troops and as such an advocate of the authoritarian corporate state .

From 1934 to 1938 he was a representative of the gendarmerie of the corporate state and the Bundestag (Austria) . In 1936 he became regional militia leader of Vienna and deputy to the federal leader.

After Austria was " annexed " to Nazi Germany , Kimmel was arrested on March 13, 1938 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on April 1, 1938 on the so-called " Prominent Transport " . In November 1938 he was released from the concentration camp , and from December 1938 to March 1939 he was imprisoned in the Roßauer Lände police prison. He was then under police control and was drafted into the service. In June 1939 he was released from gendarmerie service. He was classified as a legitimist by the new rulers .

In April 1945 he was rehabilitated and promoted to colonel in the gendarmerie. He was entrusted with setting up the gendarmerie in Lower Austria , Burgenland and the Mühlviertel . In 1949 he was appointed gendarmerie general. In 1962 he retired.

Under the motto “Austria is in his camp”, Josef Kimmel ran in April 1963 at the suggestion of the European Federalist Party (EFP) founded by Otto Molden as an outsider in the election for the Federal President and achieved 4% of the votes, while the EFP won the National Council elections in 1962 had only received 0.5%.

Kimmel was the author of numerous forensic publications and commentaries on administrative and criminal law.

Kimmel was a member of the Waldmark Neunkirchen student association in the MKV and the Rudolfina Catholic student association in the ÖCV .

literature

  • Gertrude Enderle-Burcel , Johannes Kraus: Christian - Estates - Authoritarian. Mandataries in the corporate state 1934–1938. Ed .: Documentation archive of the Austrian Resistance and Austrian Society for Historical Source Studies, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-901142-00-2 , p. 123 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Federal President election of April 25, 2004 . Vienna 2004, p. 7 ( online on the BMI website [PDF; 1000 kB ]).
  2. ↑ Kimmel Josef Dr. DÖW , accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  3. ^ "Acta Studentica", volume 92/1992, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Kimmel, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gendarmerie general and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Meedl , Sternberg district , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1982
Place of death Vienna