Otto Christandl

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Otto Christandl

Otto Christandl (also: Kristandl ; born May 28, 1909 in Bruck an der Mur ; † June 21, 1946 in Graz) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Early life (1909-1938)

After attending the elementary school and the community school in Bruck an der Mur, Christandl was trained at the teacher training institute in Graz . On February 1, 1932, he became a member of the Austrian NSDAP ( membership number 783.680). Before the ban on the NSDAP in Austria , he worked as a Gau speaker , during the ban he participated in the reorganization of the party in the underground and took on tasks as district leader and Gauleiter in Styria .

Due to his political activity, Christandl was suspended from school several times and on November 24, 1937 he was charged with high treason before the regional court. However, due to an amnesty , he was soon set free again.

Life after the "Anschluss" and World War II (1938–1945)

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich in March 1938, Christandl again took over the leadership of the Nazi movement in Upper Styria . In addition, he took over the post of provisional district captain and later the post of district school inspector of Leoben . In March and April 1938 he was deputy Gauleiter in Styria.

From May 1938 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Christandl was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented Austria.

As the district leader of Leoben and commander of the Eisenerzer Volkssturm , Christandl was one of the main people responsible for the massacre at the Präbichl Pass , in which on April 7, 1945 over 250 Hungarian Jews were murdered on a death march towards Mauthausen concentration camp .

Trial and Execution (1945/46)

On April 29, 1946, Christandl was sentenced to death by a British military court as part of the first iron ore trial for the massacre on the Präbichl. According to Polaschek, the death sentence was carried out on June 21, 1946. Independent of these proceedings, the Graz Public Prosecutor's Office applied for the initiation of the preliminary investigation on February 16 of the same year, but was discontinued after the British verdict. At the end of December 1948, however, Christandl's assets were confiscated in an independent process because of his activity as an “illegal”, i. H. his political activities at the time when the NSDAP was banned in Austria, and later as district leader.

literature

  • Daniel Blatman: The Death Marches 1944/45. The last chapter of the National Socialist mass murder. From the Hebrew v. Markus Lemke . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 3-498-02127-3
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 79 .
  • Joachim Lilla: The Deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the “Third Reich”. (= Materials from the Federal Archives , issue 13) Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 , p. 27.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Daniel Blatman: “The death marches 1944/45.” P. 357
  2. ↑ Martin F. Polaschek : In the name of the Republic of Austria! The People's Courts in Styria 1945 to 1955. (= Publications of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchives, Volume 23), Graz 1998, p. 29. Joachim Lilla also mentions the same day of death: The Deputy Gauleiter and the Representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP , 2003, p. 27 .
personal data
SURNAME Christandl, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kristandl, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1946
Place of death Graz