Karl Sobota

Karl Sobota (born March 23, 1903 in Vienna ; † unknown) was an Austrian , National Socialist politician , district organizer and savings bank official in Sauerbrunn .

Life

Sobota had been a member of the NSDAP , which was banned in Austria, since July 1, 1935 , was a member of the SA, which was also banned, and was therefore considered an old fighter after the annexation of Austria with membership number 6,158,815 and the entry date May 1, 1938 . On March 15, 1938, Gauleiter Tobias Portschy appointed him a member of the Burgenland Landtag . In Sauerbrunn he became the local group leader of the NSDAP, in the SA he received the rank of storm leader in 1943 .

After the end of the Second World War, Sobota was charged with illegality, his work as deputy of the then district leader of the NSDAP von Mattersburg Anton Weissensteiner as well as the mistreatment of several people and the appropriation of cash from someone else's property. Sobota was charged with ill-treating Jews named by the court, including Mattersburg community doctor Richard Berczeller . During the investigation, Ernst Hoffenreich testified that Sobota and Mattersburg's mayor Franz Giefing had beaten the imprisoned Jews with a stick and a pizzle. Sobota was also charged with extorting money from the Jews and robbing the doctor in his practice.

Sobota was sentenced on May 25, 1948 to three years in heavy dungeon with financial collapse because of sections 10 and 11 of the Prohibition Act and section 3 of the War Crimes Act. In its reasoning for the verdict, the court characterized him as a "fanatical, illegal National Socialist partisan".

Karl Sobota was the father of the writer Heinz Sobota .

literature

• Oberwarther-Sonntags-Zeitung, No. 13, vol. 59 (April 3, 1938)
• Susanne Uslu-Pauer; Eva Holpfer: Before the people's court. Proceedings against Nazi perpetrators from Burgenland 1945 - 1955. Eisenstadt 2008 (Burgenland Research; 96)

Web links

• Indictment against Karl Sobota for mistreating Jews in Mattersburg. (Vg 1d Vr 5154/45, proceedings against August Bartsch and others). The indictment of April 19, 1948 was written by public prosecutor Theodor Mayer-Maly, father of Theo Mayer-Maly .