Otto Raber

Otto Raber

Otto Johann Alois Raber (born November 30, 1900 in Lend im Pinzgau ; † August 9, 1951 in Göriach , Carinthia ) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ). He was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and from 1938 to 1945 a member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Raber attended the elementary and civil school . After working in a forest practice in Zell am See , he was drafted into the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment 59 on February 1, 1918 . After the end of the war he worked as a Forstadjunkt in Zell am See and in 1919 passed the state examination for the forest and hunting protection service in Linz on the Danube. He then worked in Grossarl , Eben im Pongau and Hofgastein . From May 1919 he was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Turnverein . In May 1924 he was one of the founders of the DNSAP local group in Hofgastein. Until September 1926 he was the deputy of the local group leader and leader of the police force. From December 3, 1926 to July 1, 1933, Raber was the head of the Alm forest district near Saalfelden. There he also joined the local NSDAP group on September 16, 1930 . Only seven days later he joined the SA, where he became SA troop leader after a month. In January 1931 Raber became leader of SA Storm 23 of SA Standard 59. On December 1, 1932 he was promoted to SA Storm Leader. Because of his activities in the NSDAP, he lost his job as a forester on July 1, 1933 and was sentenced to a fine of 50 shillings at the same time . On November 9, 1933 he became SA-Obersturmführer. On November 30, 1933, Raber came into custody because he had previously helped an arrested SA man to escape. However, for lack of evidence, he was released on December 24th. In July 1934 he became SA Sturmhauptführer. A few days later, he was arrested on charges of an explosives crime. In August 1934 he was referred by the court in Innsbruck to the court in Salzburg , where he was sentenced to death by hanging on March 2, 1935. The following May, his sentence was commuted to a 20-year prison sentence, which was released after two years on December 24, 1937.

After his release, Raber was again active as a National Socialist. In the Reichstag elections in 1938 he entered the German Reichstag for Austria, to which he belonged until the end of National Socialism in 1945, and was appointed leader of SA-Jägerstandarte 11 (Zell am See) on March 11, 1938, accompanied by a promotion to SA -Lieutenant Colonel. After he was entrusted with the management of the SA Mountain Infantry Standard GJ 11 on October 1, he was promoted to SA Standard Leader on November 9 . On September 26, 1939 he was drafted into the military, where he was used as a mountain fighter on the fronts in France and Russia . On November 9th he was appointed SA Oberführer .

literature

• 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 .

Web links

• Otto Raber in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptism entry by Otto Raber in the birth book of the Roman Catholic Parish Lend Volume V (1894–1911), p. 52.