Karl Osswald

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Karl Theodor Osswald (born October 7, 1895 in Ehingen , † July 7, 1964 in Bad Soden ) was a German paramilitary activist.

Life and activity

Osswald was a son of the law firm Valentin Osswald and his wife Bertha, geb. Müller.

After attending grammar school in Ehingen, Osswald graduated from grammar school in Ulm in spring 1914 with the school leaving certificate . In June 1914 he joined the grenadier regiment "King Karl" (5th Württembergisches) No. 123 as a flag junior , with whom he participated in the First World War . In early 1917 he was promoted to lieutenant . At the end of the war he retired from the military.

In 1919 Osswald joined the Haas Freikorps , with which he took part in the suppression of the councilorships established by socialist revolutionaries based on the Russian model in Augsburg and Munich .

From November 1919 he studied at the Technical University in Munich.

In July 1922 Osswald joined the anti-republic organization Reichsflagge . In the spring of 1923 he switched to the more radical separation of the Reichsflagge led by Ernst Röhm , the Bund Reichskriegsflagge . As leader of the Munich local group of the Reich War Flag and as deputy leader of the general association, Osswald took part in the Hitler putsch in November 1923 . In April 1924, Osswald was charged with aiding and abetting high treason as one of the three defendants in the second Hitler putsch trial . Like his co-defendants Edmund Heines and Gerhard von Prosch , he was found guilty and sentenced to fifteen months in prison. Osswald no longer joined the NSDAP, which was newly founded in 1925. Otherwise he no longer appeared politically. On July 1, 1940, he rejoined the NSDAP (membership number 8.918.166). In 1940 his job title was "Director", while Wildau in Brandenburg and Ehingen can be verified as his domicile .

literature

  • John Dornberg: Munich 1923. The Story of Hitler's first Grab for Power , 1982.
  • Eleanor Hancock: Ernst Röhm: Hitler's SA Chief of Staff , 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Munich: Police Directorate Munich No. 6701: Report of the Police Directorate of January 26, 1923 with information about Osswald's person and personal circumstances .
personal data
SURNAME Osswald, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osswald, Karl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paramilitary activist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ehingen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century