Max Rabl

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Max Rabl (born September 21, 1898 in Bochtitz , Moravia , † August 11, 1964 in Wels ) was an Austrian politician.

Life

Rabl was born in Bochtitz as the son of an estate manager. From 1908 to 1916 he attended a grammar school in Vienna. From 1917 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War, and in 1919 in French war captivity.

From 1920 to 1926 he studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and studied law (5 semesters) at the University of Vienna . During his studies he became a member of the Hubertus Vienna fraternity in 1920 ; In 1936 he was also a member of the Alemannia Vienna fraternity .

In 1921 Rabl joined the NSDAP .

After completing his studies, he worked as an estate agent from 1927 to 1930.

From 1930 to 1933 he was secretary of the German national and anti-Semitic Lower Austrian Land Association . In 1930 he publicly voiced allegations of corruption against the Christian-Social MP Mathias Dersch . As a result, Rabl was initially sentenced to one week's arrest; when he withdrew the allegations on appeal, the sentence was reduced to a fine.

From 1935 to 1938 he edited the newspaper “Landpost” which he founded in Wels. The rural post office was one of a few "camouflaged" papers that represented an important propagandistic support for the NSDAP, which was banned after June 19, 1933. It belonged to a small number of publishing houses and printing works that were allowed to exist at least in the first year after the Anschluss, as a kind of "reward" for their services during the period of illegality. A few days after the invasion of German troops in 1938, the country post appeared with the addition "Sheet of the National Socialist Peasantry of Austria". In 1938 he became managing director of the Nazis conformist publisher of the diocese of St. Poelten.

He was arrested three times during the Nazi era.

On July 7, 1939, the Kleine Volksblatt reported under the title "Strict measures against an unsocial manager" of an acquittal in case of doubt in connection with financial inconsistencies at the St. Pöltener Pressverein, which Rabl led.

Afterwards he was arrested for listening to an enemy radio station and spent some time as a cellmate of Heinrich Gleißner . He escaped being sent to the concentration camp by voluntarily reporting to the Wehrmacht and served himself up from the common to the rank of officer again.

1945–1946 he was a prisoner of war.

In 1947, governor Heinrich Gleißner appointed him administrator of the so-called "Göringhöfe" (farms that were privately owned by Hermann Göring ) in Upper Austria.

After the war he found his political home with the VdU , a movement of ex-Landbündlers and Greater Germans , which he co-founded in Salzburg in 1949. From 1949 to 1955 he was a member of the Federal Council as a representative of the VdU. In 1955, after many disputes about direction and the conversion of the VdU into the FPÖ , he separated from his party and tried in vain to found his own party.

family

His grandson Andreas Rabl is a politician of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and mayor of the city of Wels.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 1.
  2. ↑ a b c Who was Max Rabl - a search for traces. Wels initiative against fascism, July 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ Christian Klösch: Grated between Nazism and Austrofascism. Landbund and Greater German People's Party and the end of the German-national middle parties. University of Vienna, January 14, 2011, pp. 2–5 (PDF; 168 kB).
  4. ↑ Collapsed Libel. In:  Salzburger Chronik with the illustrated supplement “Die Woche im Bild” , July 3, 1931, p. 5 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / sch.
  5. ↑ Maximilian Rabl in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible).
  6. ^ Nazi administration. Press in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  7. ↑ Lothar Höbelt : From the fourth party to the third force. The history of the VdU. P. 74f.
personal data
SURNAME Rabl, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (Landbund), member of the Federal Council
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochtitz , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1964
Place of death Wels (city)