Paul Waibel

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Paul Friedrich Waibel (born September 24, 1902 in Dornbirn ; † September 12, 1994 ) was an Austrian politician during the time of National Socialism in Austria and a lawyer. Waibel was mayor of the city of Dornbirn from the annexation to the German Reich in 1938 until 1940.

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Paul Waibel was born on September 24, 1902 as the youngest of 14 children of the master bottle maker Maximilian Waibel and his wife Juliana (née Schweiger) in the Vorarlberg town of Dornbirn in the Rhine Valley . He attended the Dornbirn secondary school , where he also graduated . During his high school days in Dornbirn, he became a member of the youth fraternity Germania Dornbirn and the Pennal Association of German- Ethnic Students Alemannia . He completed an apprenticeship as a business graduate. Finally, Waibel studied political science and law at the universities in Cologne and Graz . During his studies he became a member of the Germania Cologne fraternity in 1922 and of the Cheruskia Graz fraternity in 1924 . in the winter semester 1926/27 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . In 1930 Paul Waibel passed the bar exam and was admitted to the bar, and in 1933 he opened his own law firm in Dornbirn. On April 8, 1929, he married Hildegard Rhomberg, with whom he had three children in 1930, 1932 and 1939.

Paul Waibel joined the NSDAP and the SS , which were still banned in Austria at that time , before Austria was annexed to the German Reich. After the National Socialists took power in Austria in March 1938, the previous mayor of Dornbirn, Ludwig Rinderer, was deposed and Paul Waibel was appointed provisional mayor. Waibel and the three councilors as well as the 20 councilors of the Nazi city administration were officially sworn in on March 28, 1939. Paul Waibel, as mayor in the National Socialist system, was the supreme executive authority in the city. The aldermen and councilors only acted in an advisory capacity.

Subsequently, Paul Waibel fell out with the plans of NSDAP Gauleiter Franz Hofer , who wanted to dissolve Vorarlberg as an independent federal state and create a joint Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg . Until then, Waibel and parts of the Vorarlberg NSDAP leadership, including Governor Anton Plankensteiner , had hoped that Vorarlberg could become an independent district with Dornbirn as the district capital. Hofer promised Waibel that he could become mayor of Innsbruck if he gave up resistance to the merger plans. After Paul Waibel refused to do so, he had to hand over the office of mayor of Dornbirn to Josef Dreher , was drafted into the Wehrmacht and assigned to the Eastern Front, where he survived the war.

After the end of the Second World War and the regaining of Austrian sovereignty, Paul Waibel made several applications for re-admission as a lawyer, which were finally answered positively in 1948. From this point on, Waibel was able to return to his original practice as a lawyer and did so until he retired in 1975.

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literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 364.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Paul Friedrich Waibel. In: Family book of the Dornbirn City Archives . Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 522.
predecessor Office successor
Ludwig Rinderer Mayor of Dornbirn
1938–1940 		Josef Dreher
personal data
SURNAME Waibel, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waibel, Paul Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Dornbirn
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1994