Josef Riggauer

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Josef Riggauer
Josef Riggauer (5th from right) with the Rosenheim SA standard at the Nazi Party Congress in Weimar on July 4th or 5th, 1926.

Josef Riggauer (born February 25, 1879 in Rosenheim ; † September 27, 1952 there ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

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After attending primary school (1885 to 1889) and secondary school (1889 to 1893), Josef Riggauer learned the carpentry trade from 1893 to 1896. He then worked as a carpenter's assistant in Stuttgart and Innsbruck until 1899 . From October 24, 1899 to September 30, 1901, he was a member of the 1st Field Artillery Regiment and the 7th Field Artillery Regiment Prinzregent Luitpold .

From 1901 to August 6, 1914, Riggauer worked as a carpenter in his parents' business. After the outbreak of World War I , he initially took an active part in the war with the 6th Reserve Field Artillery Regiment for almost three years before he was assigned to the Bavarian aircraft works in Munich as a carpenter in July 1917 , where he was until November 9th 1918 stayed.

At the end of 1918 Riggauer returned to Rosenheim. For the next ten years he worked there as a foreman in the furniture factory Gebrüder Riggauer, before finally going into business in 1928.

On May 17, 1920 Riggauer joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.159), of which he was one of the earliest members. In the following years he participated in the establishment of the first local NSDAP group outside of Munich, the Rosenheim local group. After the NSDAP was temporarily banned from November 1923 to spring 1925, Riggauer played a role in the re-establishment of the party and the rebuilding of the NSDAP local group in Rosenheim, which he headed from April 1925 to December 1932 as local group leader.

From April 13 until the dissolution of this body on November 12, 1933, Riggauer sat as a member of the NSDAP in the Bavarian state parliament . He then belonged to the Reichstag from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the Reichstag with a mandate for constituency 24 (Upper Bavaria-Swabia).

In the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary arm of the Nazi movement, Riggauer achieved the rank of Obersturmführer.

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