Oskar Kaltenegger

Oskar Kaltenegger (born August 14, 1886 in Stein in Oberkrain ; † March 26, 1976 ), until 1919 Oskar Ritter Kaltenegger von Riedhorst , was an Austrian lawyer, civil servant and politician. He was a member of the Upper Austrian Landtag , District Administrator von Gmunden and an official of the National Socialist civil administration.

education and profession

Kaltenegger was born as the son of District Captain Oskar Kaltenegger von Riedhorst and grandson of Governor Friedrich Kaltenegger von Riedhorst , in Stein, today Kamnik, in Slovenia, and from 1892 he received private lessons from his mother. He moved to visit the 3rd and 4th grade of primary school in Ljubljana and graduated from 1896 Thersianum in Vienna, where he school in 1904 with the Matura finished. After Kaltenegger had completed his military service as a one-year volunteer , he became a lieutenant in the reserve in 1908. He then attended a high school graduate course at the Vienna Commercial Academy and studied law at the University of Vienna .

Kaltenegger began his professional career as an Imperial and Royal Lieutenancy Concept Trainee at the Lieutenancy of Trieste. In 1912 he switched to the Görz district administration as a consultant for mobilization , and after the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for the front. He then fought in Galicia and South Tyrol and was severely wounded several times, as a result of which he retired from military service as captain of the reserve, severely disabled. Kaltenegger was subsequently assigned to the district administration Gradisca, where he was appointed district commissioner on February 1, 1918. At the end of December 1918, Kaltenegger was taken over to the Ministry of Education, where he worked as Deputy Ministerial Secretary until the end of December 1919. At his own request, he switched to the state administration in 1919 and took over the position of board member of the Steyr agricultural district authority. In the same year he became deputy district captain of Steyr. In 1934, as a result of the July coup , Kaltenegger was transferred to the Wels district administration and later removed from office. In 1937, however, he was appointed deputy district captain of Linz.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the National Socialist German Reich, Gauleiter August Eigruber entrusted Kaltenegger with the provisional position of State Office Director on March 14, 1938, which he held until the end of September 1939. On May 5, 1938, he was also head of the district of Gmunden with the rank of senior government councilor. Kaltenegger held this office until November 2, 1940, but had refused an appointment to Lublin . For a short time he held the office of head of administration in Rennes before he was transferred in 1941 as a deputy official from the Reich governor of Upper Danube to head of civil administration in the occupied territories of Carinthia and Carniola , based in Klagenfurt . Kaltenegger took up his position on April 14, 1941, but soon came into conflict with the deputy Gauleiter Franz Kutschera , as Kaltenegger campaigned for a better relationship with the Slovenian population . He was then removed from office. His appointment as government director and consultant for Oberkrain in Klagenfurt was also canceled before he took office. In 1942 he finally moved to the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior as a government director and was taken over from there as captain of the reserve and appointed as district commander in Kortryke and Ghent . At the end of 1943 he was transferred to Bihać and Novska as combat commander .

At the end of the war, Kaltenegger was arrested in Schönberg near Cilli and sentenced to death in 1949 in Yugoslav captivity. In 1950 his sentence was commuted to prison and in 1951 he was released. After his return to Austria at the end of 1951 he was transferred to permanent retirement by the office of the Upper Austrian provincial government.

Politics and functions

Kaltenegger got involved in the founding of the Heimwehr in Steyr and became chairman of the Steyr gymnastics club. In 1930 he stood for the Schoberblock in the National Council election in Austria in 1930 in the Traunkreis, and he also ran for the state election in Upper Austria in 1931 . He joined the NSDAP in the Steyr local group on March 30, 1933 and, according to his own statements, had been the cell manager of the Wels district administration during the party ban. After the death of the state parliament member Maximilian Pauly, Kaltenegger moved up as a member of the state parliament in the Upper Austrian state parliament on April 1, 1934, although he was never called to a meeting due to the constitutional transitional law. In 1938 he became district leader of the Upper Danube of the National Socialist Reichsbund for physical exercises and SA-Sturmbannführer.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.territorial.de
2. ↑ karawankengrenze.at memorandum of Oskar Kaltenegger about the resettlement of Slovenians from the occupied territories of Carinthia and Carniola

Web links

• Biography of Oskar Kaltenegger on the server of the federal state of Upper Austria .