Paul Hudl

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Paul Hudl

Paul Hudl (born May 6, 1894 in Vienna ; † unknown) was an Austrian politician ( NSDAP ) and SS officer.

Life

After attending elementary school and secondary school, from which he graduated from high school, Hudl joined the 4th regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger in 1913 as a one-year volunteer . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. In November 1917 he was promoted to first lieutenant. During the war he was "honored before the enemy" seven times and wounded twice.

After the end of the war, Hudl embarked on a commercial career and set up in Vienna in 1924 in the timber trade. Politically, he was involved in the NSDAP since 1930 ( membership number 612.509). From 1920 to 1926 he was a member of the DNSAP . In December 1933, he switched from the SA engine squadron to the SA military standard and joined the SS the following year . As a member of the SS (membership number 107.003) Hudl achieved the 1940 rank of Sturmbannführer.

On July 25, 1934, Hudl took part in the attempt by the Austrian National Socialists to overthrow the Austrian government by means of a coup and to take over state power in the Alpine state. He was - disguised in a false uniform - involved in the storming of the Federal Chancellery on Ballhausplatz that day , during which the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was shot. After the coup was suppressed, Hudl was sentenced on August 2, 1934 by a military tribunal to life in severe imprisonment with the removal of the Order of the Iron Crown and the Military Cross of Merit. After forty-three months in prison in Stein an der Donau, Hudl was finally given amnesty on February 18, 1938 and set free.

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich in March 1938, Hudl received a mandate for the meaningless National Socialist Reichstag in the Reichstag election on April 10, 1938 , to which he belonged until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945. Hudl, who ran a sawmill in Neuberg, became special representative of the State Commissioner for Private Sector Walter Rafelsberger in 1938 and for the DAF Commissioner of German Trade and later Gauhandelswalter of the DAF in Vienna. During the Battle of Vienna in April 1945, he left the city.

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 , p. 264 .

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