Leopold Mitterbauer

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Leopold Mitterbauer (born November 3, 1912 in Laakirchen near Gmunden , † July 29, 1971 in Lanzersdorf ) was an Austrian member of the National Socialist Reichstag ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending elementary and community school, Mitterbauer completed a three-year apprenticeship as an electrician . He then worked as a technical draftsman for a year and finally worked as a worker in Belfort for three months. From 1932 to January 1933 he was unemployed. He then worked from 1933 to July 1934 as a self-employed businessman (petrol and oil). After the failed National Socialist putsch against the Austrian Dollfuss government and the suspected perpetrator of the murder of the gendarme Josef Lukesch , Mitterbauer was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason. He was finally given an amnesty on February 18, 1938 .

After the " Anschluss " to the German Reich Mitterbauer in May 1938 was member of the Reichstag in Nazi Reichstag , he was also a full-time Gaupersonalamtsleiter in Gau Upper Danube in Linz and Blood Order and obersturmbannführer ; for his imprisonment between 1934 and 1938 he was compensated materially with 7,000 RM. Leopold Mitterbauer, who was portrayed as a fanatical National Socialist as early as 1934, was also suspected of having been involved in the murder of Linz Police President Dr. Victor Benz and the head of the Garsten prison, Dr. Bernegger to have been involved. After the Second World War, preliminary investigation proceedings were initiated against four people (Heinz Weidner, Karl Eberhardt, Alfred Neuwirth, Leopold Mitterbauer) in this criminal case. During the Nazi era Mitterbauer was also the general director of several cloth factories in Prosniz, Czechoslovakia. He was charged according to the War Economy Regulation and sentenced to three years in prison because of the movement of materials; he lost his position in the NSDAP. From 1943 he was imprisoned in Bernau am Chiemsee , in 1945 he was sent to the Glasenbach POW camp and was able to get the Americans (CIC) hired him as a driver. That's why it was difficult to question him after the war. However, on April 23, 1947, the Linz Regional Court issued an arrest warrant against him. The proceedings that were resumed after the war (due to the suspicion of the murder of the gendarme Lukesch and the Linz police director Dr. Benz) obviously fizzled out.

literature

  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register entry of the parish office Laakirchen: roman 11, 152, no 100.
  2. ^ Upper Austrian regional archive, special courts Linz, VgVr 1947, Zl 2377-2392, box no.246
  3. ^ Österreichisches Staatsarchiv: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv , 2000, p. 311.
personal data
SURNAME Mitterbauer, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Laakirchen
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1971
Place of death Lanzersdorf