Leopold Sturma

Leopold Sturma , also Leo Sturma (born June 13, 1896 in Wels , † February 18, 1965 ibid) was an Austrian lawyer and politician ( NSDAP ). He was Mayor of Wels from 1938 to 1939 , Lord Mayor of Linz from 1940 to 1944 and President of the Higher Regional Court in Linz from 1944 to 1945.

Life

Sturma, the son of a tax officer, graduated from high school in 1913 and took part in World War I as a one-year volunteer. From 1918 to 1919 he was imprisoned in Italy. After his release, he studied law at the University of Innsbruck and received his doctorate in 1923. iur. From 1925 he worked as an independent lawyer in Wels.

In 1934 he joined the NSDAP Wels and took on several functions there. Until 1938 he represented almost all National Socialists in criminal proceedings pending in Wels. By 1944 at the latest he had made it to the position of SS-Obersturmbannführer .

In March 1938, after the National Socialists came to power, Sturma was appointed as his successor in place of the Christian Social Mayor of Wels, Johann Hartl , which he remained until 1939. Then he worked again as a lawyer. Since 1940 Sturma worked as a volunteer employee of the SD. From 1940 to 1944 he was Lord Mayor of Linz , then from January 30, 1944 until the end of the war in 1945 he was President of the Linz Higher Regional Court . After the war, proceedings were initiated against him, which were finally put down in 1950 by a resolution by Federal President Karl Renner .

From 1951 Sturma worked again as a lawyer in Wels.

literature

• Walter Schuster: Leo Sturma - Nazi career on a regional level.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} German Justice: ed. by Reichsminister der Justiz, Volume 12, Issue 3, February 11, 1944, p. 78

Web links

• Biography of Leopold Sturma on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .
• Leo Sturma on linz.at

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Hartl	Mayor of Wels 1938–1939	Josef Schuller

predecessor	Office	successor
Josef Wolkerstorfer	Lord Mayor of Linz 1940–1944	Franz Langoth