Karl Scharizer

Karl Scharizer , also Scharitzer (born July 30, 1901 in Freistadt , Upper Austria, † July 9, 1956 in Vienna ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader .

Live and act

Karl Scharizer was the son of the farmer Theodor Scharizer. After attending elementary school and high school in Freistadt, he finished his school career in 1920 with the Matura . He then studied to be a teacher at the University of Graz, majoring in chemistry, but was unable to complete his studies for financial reasons. From 1927 to 1932 he worked as a laborer for the Alpine-Montan-Gesellschaft in Eisenhütte Donawitz .

From 1921 onwards, Scharizer initially worked politically at DNSAP . From 1922 to 1925 he was a member of the Patriotic Protection Association , which later became part of the SA . Afterwards he was head of the National Socialist Youth in Styria in 1925 and in 1925/26 Gau manager of the Hitler Youth in Graz . Since 1927 he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 81,656). For the party he was from 1927 to 1930 in Leoben Oberkassenwart and then until 1932 local group leader in Trofaiach . In May 1932, Scharizer became Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Salzburg .

From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the municipal council in Donawitz. In December 1932 he was appointed to the Federal Council of Austria, of which he was a member until September 5, 1933. After the NSDAP ban in Austria, he moved to the German Reich in July 1933 . There he continued his activities as the Gauleiter of Salzburg illegally and in 1934 his Austrian citizenship was revoked. After the July coup in 1934, he worked for the NSDAP refugee relief organization in Berlin and the party's Reich organizational leadership in Munich from 1935 . From 1936 to 1938 he headed the agency for mediation and support of the “Austrian Aid Organization”. At the end of January 1937, Scharizer became a member of the SS with the rank of SS-Oberführer (SS No. 279,370). In the SS he reached the rank of brigade leader at the end of January 1941 .

After the annexation of Austria Scharitzer sat from April 1938 to the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a deputy for the country Austria in Nazi Reichstag . From 1938 Scharizer was also deputy Gauleiter of Vienna and remained in this position until the end of the war in May 1945. In this position, Scharizer was involved in anti-Jewish measures such as deportations and Aryanizations . In the wake of the failed coup on July 20, 1944 , Scharizer was briefly detained by Wehrmacht officers . At the end of the war he was with the Volkssturm .

After the end of the war he was interned by the Soviets until 1955 and was a wanted war criminal in Austria. In his absence he was sentenced to financial collapse by the People's Court in Vienna in August 1949 , but the proceedings were later dropped. After his return he probably did not have to answer to court in Austria, possibly because his wife had submitted a pardon to the Federal President while he was away .

literature

Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007. ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .
Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .

Web links

Karl Scharizer in the database of members of the Reichstag
Karl Scharizer on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 147
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 200
^ ^A ^b Maren Seliger: Sham parliamentarism in the Führer state. "Community representation" in Austrofascism and National Socialism. Functions and political profiles Vienna councilors and councilors 1934–1945 in comparison. Lit, Vienna / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50233-9 , pp. 442f.
^ ^A ^b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 148
^ Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 148f.
^ ^A ^b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 150

personal data
SURNAME	Scharizer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scharitzer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR, member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Free City
DATE OF DEATH	July 9, 1956
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 147

[Voithofer200-2] A ^b ^c ^d Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2007, p. 200

[Seliger442f-3] A ^b Maren Seliger: Sham parliamentarism in the Führer state. "Community representation" in Austrofascism and National Socialism. Functions and political profiles Vienna councilors and councilors 1934–1945 in comparison. Lit, Vienna / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50233-9 , pp. 442f.

[Graf148-4] A ^b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 148

[5] Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 148f.

[Graf150-6] A ^b Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 150