Lieferinger Nazi putsch
After the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in Vienna on July 25, 1934, riots and shootings broke out in several places in the state of Salzburg in the wake of the July coup of the National Socialists . The bloodiest clashes took place in Lamprechtshausen ( Lamprechtshausen Nazi putsch ), but several people died in Liefering on July 27, 1934.
Prehistory of the Lieferingen Nazi putsch
In 1934, as in all of Austria, the National Socialists carried out several serious attacks in Liefering. For example, on May 19, 1934, a five-kilo paper gun was detonated in the courtyard of the Liefering Mission House , which caused considerable damage to property. This was followed by a series of further attacks, supported by propaganda balloons that rose from the Bavarian side. A preliminary high point was May 29, 1934, when 15 pistol shots were fired at members of the protection corps from Bavaria on the railway bridge near Rott . In the course of the investigation, several National Socialists were found to be the perpetrators. A court martial that met in Salzburg on June 15, 1934 (a death sentence was possible in the case of bomb attacks at the time) sentenced three defendants to prison terms of several years; although three gallows had already been set up in the courtyard of the court, no death sentence was carried out.
Course of the attempted coup in Liefering
The climax of the attempted Nazi uprising in Liefering was June 27, 1934. In Liefering and the town of Rott near the border, the SA planned to occupy the gendarmerie post , the protective corps barracks and the customs office building, as the National Socialists hoped that by capturing the executive organs To clear the way for the Austrian Legion to march . The order to the 29-year-old electrician Karl Sommer from the Salzburg SA chief mother was to occupy the gendarmerie post at 6:30 p.m. and distribute the weapons.
However, the 16 members of the SA gathered at the Lieferinger Hartlwirt were soon discovered and the inn was surrounded. While trying to arrest the suspects, the Heimwehr company leader Felix Egger was shot by the putschists. In the further firefight, four auxiliary gendarme were injured, two of them so badly that they died within a week. One of the killed auxiliary gendarme was the married Maxglaner bricklayer Karl Hackinger, born in 1903; he left a wife and three minor children. The other victim was Johann Angelberger from Lieferingen.
After the executive failed to break into the inn, the homeland security officer Johann Straßhofer and his men attacked the inn from the side, and he was successful. The putschists tried to flee, but the majority could be captured. Only the leader of the putschists could escape with two accomplices; they tried to get to the Salzach via the Salzach floodplains and to flee to Bavaria. The leader reached the wrong bank and was found by farmers in Anthering and handed over to the gendarmerie. The person who fired the fatal shots at Felix Egger escaped to Germany. The third of them drowned on the run in the Salzach and was found a week later in Obernberg am Inn .
In nearby Rott, another 35 National Socialists had gathered in the restaurants “Haselwimmer” and “Anfang”. After the end of the fighting in Liefering, this was reported to the gendarmerie and the executive, reinforced by Viennese homeland security officers, went to the two inns. The putschists in the Haselwimmer inn were arrested and tried to flee in the beginning of the inn. Two National Socialists holed up in a farmhouse that had to be stormed. The fugitives were placed in the attic, one of them was the retired director of the Maxglan community school.
End of the coup attempt
A total of 42 SA members were arrested. Two of them were sentenced by a military court in Linz to nine years in prison each, although the martial law had been promulgated in Salzburg and the acts were threatened with a death sentence.
A memorial plaque was attached to the war memorial in Liefering for the three fallen soldiers, but it can no longer be found today.
literature
- Kurt Bauer: Socio-historical aspects of the National Socialist July coup 1934. Dissertation: Humanities and cultural studies faculty at the University of Vienna, 2001.
- Peter F. Kramml: Karl Hackinger (1903-1934). Shot as an aid to the July coup. In Peter F. Kramml; P. Franz Lauterbacher; Guido Müller (Ed.), Maxglan. Hundred years of parish 1907–1007 - Salzburg's second largest city cemetery. With 120 biographies of well-known, remarkable and famous personalities (pp. 208–209). Salzburg 2007: Parish Maxglan.
- Peter F. Kramml: Liefering - the village on the border. In: Board of Trustees of the Peter Pfenninger Donation Liefering (ed.), Liefering. The village within the city (pp. 57–214). 1997, Salzburg: Peter Pfenninger donation.