Otto Kemptner

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Otto Kemptner (born August 19, 1890 in Hainfeld in Lower Austria; † May 3, 1944 in St. Florian Monastery ) was an Austrian functionary and Augustinian canon .

Life

Otto Kemptner was the son of a train driver. His family moved to Vienna in 1894 , where he graduated from high school in 1908 . He was a member of KaV Norica Wien , co-founder of the Catholic student association KÖHV Franco-Bavaria Vienna , and founder of the Catholic secondary school association K.Ö.St.V Bavaria Vienna. He completed a philology degree with a teaching degree.

During the First World War he served as a one-year volunteer and was one of the first officers in the Austro-Hungarian Army to take a course in anti-aircraft guns . In 1920 he switched from the people's armed forces to the financial service and at the same time began a double degree in law and political science, both of which he completed with doctoral degrees.

Otto Kemptner was the first secretary of the Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , whom he already knew from working days. He was commissioned by Engelbert Dollfuss in 1933 to set up the Fatherland Front , which was finally founded on May 20, 1933. From August 12, 1933 to February 19, 1934 he was also the managing director of the Fatherland Front. In 1938 he was President of the Financial Directorate in Salzburg.

After the “Anschluss” of Austria, Kemptner was arrested by the Gestapo as a leader of the Fatherland Front and interned in the police barracks in Salzburg for six months. In October 1938 he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp , where he spent months in bunker custody. He was later transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he was assigned to a penal company. In October 1939 he was released from concentration camp detention.

Because of his experiences, he joined the order of the Augustinian Canons in St. Florian Monastery in 1941 , but died shortly before he was ordained a priest .

Fonts

  • Who is to blame? , Fatherland Front, Vienna 1934.

literature

  • Herbert Fritz, Peter Krause (Ed.): Wearing colors - Confessing colors, 1938–1945. Catholic Corporates in Resistance and Persecution (= Tradition and Future . Volume 15). Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 2013, p. 361.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Krejci : Always on course despite rough seas . (PDF; 102 kB), accessed on February 16, 2010.
  2. ^ History of the young Catholic group in Austria: Church in the corporate state. (No longer available online.) Catholic Young Group Austria , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Change in the management of the Fatherland Front. In:  Wiener Zeitung , August 13, 1933, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ^ New head of the Fatherland Front. In:  Wiener Zeitung , February 20, 1934, p. 4 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  5. ^ A b Leonhard Steinwender : Christ in the concentration camp. Ways of grace and sacrifice. Müller Verlag, Salzburg 1946.
  6. ↑ KÖSTV Bavaria Vienna celebrates its 100th birthday. (PDF; 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Pfarrblatt Gumpendorf St. Egyd . 2008, p. 2 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kemptner, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian functionary and Augustinian canon
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainfeld (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1944
Place of death St. Florian Monastery