Robert Lippert

Robert Christian Julius Lippert (born May 28, 1902 in Mühlbach im Pinzgau , † 1966 ) was an Austrian lawyer and paramilitary activist.

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Lippert was a son of the Austrian Forestry Councilor Adolf Lippert and his wife Eleonore, née Röhm. Lippert's maternal uncle was the NSDAP politician Ernst Röhm , his brother the diplomat Bernhard Lippert .

Lippert spent his youth in Salzburg , where he attended the state high school. In 1916 he moved to Vienna . Already at a young age Lippert began to be active in the circles of the extreme political right: In 1919, during the school holidays, Lippert participated as a time volunteer in the Epp Freikorps - in which his uncle Röhm held a leading position as chief of staff of Franz Ritter von Epp - in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic . After finishing school Lippert studied 1920-1922 jurisprudence at the University of Munich and then from 1923 to 1925 at the University of Vienna , where he 1929 Dr. jur doctorate . In the following years he worked as a trainee lawyer in the court service.

During his Munich studies, Lippert was a member of the Munich Corps Palatia until 1922 . In 1923 he joined the NSDAP . At the same time he became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA). After they were banned, he became involved in the Rossbach Sturmabteilung , in which in 1926 he took over the post of Federal Deputy Leader of the Schill Youth for Austria.

After passing the bar exam at the Innsbruck Regional Court in 1932 , Lippert settled as a lawyer in Salzburg. In the next few years he was, among other things, legal advisor to the NSDAP Gauleitung in Austria. In 1935 he became permanent legal advisor to the German Consulate in Salzburg.

After the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in 1938, Lippert was appointed President of the Salzburg Bar Association and on November 1, 1939, Gaukämmerer of the Reichsgau Salzburg. In the last-mentioned capacity, among other things, he was involved in the Aryanization of Jewish property within the Gau area. In the Sturmabteilung Lippert reached the rank of Obersturmbannführer on January 30, 1940.

After Lippert October 1944 active World War II had participated, he fell in the war in Allied captivity. He was then interned until July 1947. A preliminary investigation initiated against Lippert before the Linz regional court in the same year was discontinued. Instead, he got a job in power plant construction in Kaprun , before he was a member of the Salzburg magistrate from 1957 , where he later became department head and senate councilor.

literature

• Maurizo Bach: Fascism as a Movement and Regime , 2010.
• Oskar Dohle: Workers for the final victory. Forced labor in the Reichsgau Salzburg 1939–1945 , 2004.
• Ernst Hanisch: National Socialist rule in the province. Salzburg in the Third Reich , 1983.