Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg
The Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg was a Reichsgau in Austria at the time of National Socialism . It was formed in April 1939, shortly after Austria was " annexed " to Nazi Germany . The Reichsgau existed according to the Ostmarkgesetz from 1939 to 1945. From 1939 to 1942 the seven Reichsgaue in the former Austria were designated as Ostmark , from 1942 as Alpen- und Donau-Reichsgaue in order to remove any reference to the former Austria . It consisted of 10 circles. The regional capital was Innsbruck . The NSDAP included 1940 335 local branches, 813 cells and 4,821 blocks.
The Austrian NSDAP already had a party branch in Tirol-Vorarlberg until 1928 and again from 1932 . From 1928–1932, Tyrol and Vorarlberg formed the Westgau together with Salzburg . For Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Tirol 1932 Innsbruck was Franz Hofer determined and he remained so in the illegal phase after party ban in 1933, until he Edmund Christoph replaced 1935th Under him, the National Socialists took power on March 13, 1938, but he was considered too weak. On May 24, 1938, Hofer was again Gauleiter in the NSDAP-Parteigau Tirol-Vorarlberg, which had its seat in the Neues Landhaus and was subordinate to the NSDAP Reichsleitung in Munich (not in Vienna ). The state president instead of the governor was Hans-Reinhard Koch . On September 1, 1940, Hofer was also appointed Reich Governor of Tyrol-Vorarlberg and remained so until 1945. Edmund Christoph was the deputy Gauleiter in 1938, and Herbert Parson from March 1939 to 1945 .
The Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg consisted of the areas that are known today as North Tyrol and Vorarlberg . It was divided into circles with district leaders and district leaders .
In Vorarlberg there were the following circles:
- District of Bregenz with district manager Hanns Dietrich (1939–1945)
- Dornbirn district with district manager Anton Plankensteiner (1939–1941)
- District of Bludenz with district leaders Hans Bernard (1939–1941) and Wernfried Richter (1941–1945)
literature
- Rolf Steininger , Sabine Pitscheider (eds.): Tyrol and Vorarlberg in the Nazi era. Studies Verlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1634-9 .
- Horst Schreiber : The takeover of power. The National Socialists in Tyrol 1938–39. Haymon, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-85218-152-6 .
Web links
- Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg. (pdf; 4.3 MB) In: Ostmark Yearbook. 1942, pp. 258–276 (Findbuch NSDAP Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg; reproduced on findbuch.at).
- Joachim Lilla: Overview of the NSDAP Gaue, the Gauleiter and the Deputy Gauleiter between 1933 and 1945. In: Zukunft-bendet-erinnerung.de. February 25, 2007 .
Single receipts
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Gau Tirol-Vorarlberg of the NSDAP. In: territorial.de. January 1, 2005, accessed July 10, 2020 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. tirol.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).