Klaus Mahnert

Klaus Mahnert (born March 27, 1913 in Marburg an der Drau ; † January 31, 2005 in Innsbruck ) was the Austrian district inspector for Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria during the National Socialist era , Innsbruck municipal council and FPÖ member of the Austrian National Council .

Life

Mahnert attended elementary school in Mürzzuschlag and the grammar school in Innsbruck. After graduating from high school in 1931, he studied law and political science at the University of Halle for five semesters and then dropped out. During his studies, like his father Ludwig Mahnert before, he became a member of the Alemannia auf dem Pflug fraternity in 1931 . Eventually he became a publishing clerk. Mahnert was married to Hanna Mahnert and the couple had three sons.

Career in the time of National Socialism

Mahnert was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 512.506). Mahnert played an important role as early as 1934 in the July coup of the National Socialists in Innsbruck. He was "brigade inspector" of the SA for Tyrol and should after the murder of police officer Franz Hickl trigger the uprising in Innsbruck, but what he is given the suppression of the uprising in Vienna could not decide. In the course of the police investigation into the murder of Franz Hickl, the Tyrolean brigade command of the SA was also tracked down. Mahnert was arrested with others on May 13, 1935; a procedure initiated against him for high treason was discontinued after four months under the condition that Mahnert had to leave Austria. In the Reich, Mahnert fell out with the SA leadership and was taken over by the SS, which had long tried to win over the leaders of the illegal NSDAP.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Empire , Mahnert began his political career. Mahnert belonged to the group of so-called emigrants whom the Gauleiter of Tyrol, Franz Hofer , had promoted to the head of administration and party after his return to power in May 1938. In 1940 Mahnert received the " Blood Order " for old fighters . He became an SA storm leader, was district leader of the Imst NSDAP, deputy Gauleiter and finally Gauinspector of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. He later switched from the SA to the SS (membership no. 276 178). In the SS, Mahnert achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer in April 1937 .

Career in the second republic

In June 1948 Mahnert was sentenced to eleven years in prison, but was pardoned in December 1949. Between 1950 and 1958 he was a commercial clerk and then an independent publishing clerk at the specialist publishing house for tourism. From 1966 to 1973 he was managing director of the "Neue Front"; The NF was the party newspaper of the VdU between 1949 and 1956 and then the party newspaper of the FPÖ . From 1973 to 1981 he was managing director of the "Neue Freie Zeitung", which in 1973 was renamed from Neue Front to Neue Freie Zeitung.

Mahnert was a founding member of the FPÖ in 1956. From 1965 to 1973 he was a member of the Innsbruck municipal council. Mahnert had advertised in an election brochure of the FPÖ with the note that his “political activity as a National Socialist against the Dollfuss-Schuschnigg regime had led to the termination of his studies and to an almost one year imprisonment (1933/34)”, “which turned out to be unsuitable Means proved to dampen youthful enthusiasm ”. From June 9, 1959 to March 30, 1966, Mahnert was regional party chairman of the FPÖ Tyrol, from 1967 to 1968 chairman of the FPÖ program committee (development of the so-called Bad Ischler program) and member of the federal party leadership of the FPÖ as well as a member of the National Council (IX.-X . GP, 1959-1966). Mahnert is ascribed special commitment in school and European politics as well as in matters relating to South Tyrol. In the Innsbruck municipal council he worked in the financial control committee, the coordination committee for the XII. Olympic Winter Games (1976) and on the Housing Committee.

Honors

• Holder of the Cross of Merit of Tyrol (1978)
• Honorary Ring Bearer of the State Capital Innsbruck (1980)
• Honorary member of the FPÖ

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 59-61.
• Harald Walser (1988). The July putsch in Tyrol in 1934. In T. Albrich, K. Eisterer & R. Steininger (eds.), Tyrol and the connection. Requirements, developments, framework conditions 1918–1938 , pp. 331–356. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag, ISBN 3-85218-034-1 .
• Kurt Bauer (2001). Social-historical aspects of the National Socialist July coup 1934. Vienna: Dissertation.
• Klaus Mahnert (1977). Mitigating circumstances. Report on the period of life 1913–1943. Innsbruck: unpublished manuscript.
• Klaus Mahnert (1991). Bridge builders. Report on my second phase of life since 1950. Innsbruck: unpublished manuscript.

Web links

• Klaus Mahnert on the website of the Austrian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.mahnert-online.de/klaus-kurzbiogr.html
2. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 12.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Mahnert on www.dws-xip.pl
4. ↑ Harald Walser (1988). The July putsch in Tyrol in 1934. In T. Albrich, K. Eisterer & R. Steininger (eds.), Tyrol and the connection. Requirements, developments, framework conditions 1918–1938 , pp. 331–356. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag.
5. ↑ Walser, 1988, p. 349.
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Klaus Mahnert on his 90th birthday
8. ^ Professional: Klaus Mahnert . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1965, p. 186 ( online - Nov. 3, 1965 ).
9. ^ List of party leaders of the Freedom Party of Austria
10. ↑ Excerpt from the minutes of the meeting of the Innsbruck municipal council on February 24, 2005, http://www.mahnert-online.de/klaus-tod.html