Max Nedwed
Max Nedwed (born June 22, 1902 in Hallein , Austria-Hungary , † September 16, 1975 in Klagenfurt ) was an Austrian lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader.
Life
Nedwed completed after graduation at the University of Innsbruck a degree in law and political science and a doctorate to Dr. jur. He then joined the police force in Klagenfurt and was employed as a police commissioner at the security director for Carinthia. During the July coup of 1934 he was involved in the suppression of the uprising in Carinthia.
After Austria was annexed in March 1938, Nedwed was employed as the head of the police department in the Carinthian provincial government. From 1939 he worked for the Klagenfurt state police station and from there in 1940 moved to the Karlsbad state police station in the occupied Reichsgau Sudetenland , where he became deputy head. From there he moved to the Stettin State Police Station in July 1941 and to the Köslin State Police Station in September 1942 . From the beginning of July 1943 to the beginning of October 1944 he was head of the Kassel state police station and then of the Innsbruck state police station until the beginning of May 1945 .
Nedwed, who belonged to the NSDAP , became a member of the SS in December 1940 . In the SS he reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1943 and was promoted to the senior government council in the same year.
On May 2, 1945, he and other Gestapo officers left with the goal of Unterinntal. After the war ended , Nedwed was arrested near Kitzbühel on August 5, 1945 . By a French military tribunal in 1948 Nedwed was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, from which he was released early. Then he worked as an employee in Linz .
Web links
- Nedwed, Max on memorial sites of National Socialism in Innsbruck and Seefeld
- Gunnar Richter : The Breitenau Labor Education Camp (1940–1945) - A Contribution to the National Socialist Camp System , Kassel 2004, Dissertation University of Kassel (pdf; 9.7 MB)
- Max Nedwed , at Yasvashem
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register of the registry office Klagenfurt No. 1306/1975.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nedwed, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian lawyer, Gestapo employee and SS leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hallein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 1975 |
| Place of death | Klagenfurt |