Leopold Schaschko

Leopold Schaschko (born August 20, 1880 in Desselbrunn , Upper Austria , † June 27, 1952 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian politician ( DNSAP , NSDAP ) and federal railway official. He was a member of the Salzburg state parliament from 1918 to 1919 and from 1932 to 1933 .

education and profession

After attending elementary school, Schaschko entered the service of the kk state railways , where he worked as a magazine Indian between 1907 and 1908 and then as a magazine supervisor between 1909 and 1914. In 1914 he was promoted to magazine master in Salzburg and in 1928 he was rail adjunct and 1932 rail inspector of the Austrian Federal Railways . In 1933 he also took on the role of chairman of the regional railway department.

Politics and functions

Schaschko represented the German National Socialist Workers' Party between November 3, 1918 and April 21, 1919 in the provisional Salzburg state assembly, with this body preparing the first state election after the end of the Habsburg monarchy . Schaschko founded the “German Transport Union Salzburg” in 1919 and was chairman of this organization until 1930. In addition, in 1925 he became chairman of the “Reich Association of German Railway Workers in Austria” and in 1926 joined the Nazi party Hitler movement . After Schaschko after the state election in 1932 was sworn in on May 19, 1932 again as a Member of the Salzburg Parliament, he practiced from 1932 to 1933, the position of deputy club chairman of the Nazi Party parliamentary group. After the party ban, his mandate in the Salzburg state parliament ended on June 30, 1933. Within the party, Schaschko was active as organizational leader of the NSDAP in Salzburg between 1932 and 1938, and until 1938 he was head of the illegal aid organization of the NSDAP in Salzburg. After the National Socialists came to power in 1938, he became the Gau Commissioner of the National Socialist People's Welfare in Salzburg and a member of the Gaugericht in Salzburg.

Awards

• Medal for "German People's Care" (1940)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Siegfried Göllner: Die Stadt Salzburg 1940 - Newspaper documentation compiled on the basis of contemporary daily newspapers. City of Salzburg, 2012 (PDF; 1.72 MB).

literature

• Richard Voithofer: " That's why you are freshly joining Germany ..." The Greater German People's Party in Salzburg 1920–1936 (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 9). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2000, ISBN 3-205-99222-9 .
• Richard Voithofer: Political Elites in Salzburg. A biographical handbook from 1918 to the present (= series of publications by the Research Institute for Political and Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Salzburg. Vol. 32). Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77680-2 .