Julius Plaichinger

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Julius Plaichinger (born January 2, 1892 in Spalato , Dalmatia , † after 1937) was an Austro-German officer and SS leader.

Life

In his youth, Plaichinger attended the elementary school in Knittelfeld and the grammar school in Carinthia . From 1906 to 1910 he was trained at the cadet school in Heimburg . In 1910 he joined a pioneer battalion in Przemyśl in Galicia as an ensign , where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1912 .

During the First World War , Plaichinger fought with the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Russian front from 1914 to 1915 , then until 1916 in Serbia , Albania , Macedonia and then from 1916 to 1918 on the Italian front . During the war he was promoted to first lieutenant in 1916 and to captain in 1918 . After an interlude in Italian captivity until 1919, Plaichinger was active in the officers' border guard on the Austrian border with Hungary until 1920 and then in the Austrian People's Army until 1921 .

After a temporary retirement, Plaichinger was a member of the Pioneer Battalion Graz of the Austrian Armed Forces until 1923 . When he left this in 1923, he moved to Munich , where he worked with his brother on chemical research.

In April 1933, Plaichinger joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.665.183). In July of the same year he became an employee of the security service of the SS , in which he finally advanced to the position of economic officer in the SD office (later called SD main office ). Günther Deschner describes Plaichinger as one of six men, along with Werner Best , Walter Ilges , Carl Oberg , Paul Leffler and Wilhelm August Patin , who formed the “small SD apparatus in the first year of power”.

When the SD office moved to Berlin in 1934, his godmother stayed in Munich for private reasons, where he then worked as a freelancer for the SD. He received a new, more regular position in the colonial policy office of the NSDAP .

He reached his highest rank in the SS on September 12, 1937 when he was promoted to SS-Standartenführer (SS No. 36.141).

literature

  • Shlomo Aronson : Heydrich and the beginnings of the SD and the Gestapo. 1931-1935 , 1967, pp. 188 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julius Plaichinger on seniority list
  2. ^ Günther Deschner: Heydrich. Governor of Total Power , 1977, p. 99.
personal data
SURNAME Plaichinger, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-German officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Spalato , Dalmatia
DATE OF DEATH after 1937