Robert Osler-Toptani

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Robert Osler-Toptani (born June 9, 1878 in Vienna , † April 16, 1953 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Carinthia ) was an Austrian officer and briefly politician ( CSP ).

Life

After finishing high school , Robert Osler-Toptani first attended a commercial academy in Vienna.

From 1899 to 1900 he graduated from the one-year volunteer school of the 3rd regiment of the kuk Kaiserjäger . In 1901 he took the supplementary examination to become a career officer . In the same year Osler-Toptani was promoted to lieutenant , in 1915, in the course of the First World War to captain . He served in the registry office of the Joint Army of Austria-Hungary .

Osler-Toptani was also taken over into the army after the war , where he was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1933 . In 1936 he finally became head of the intelligence service of the 7th Division in the army.

He held his only known political mandate from August 1929 to January 1931, when he represented the interests of the federal state of Carinthia as a member of the Federal Council .

In 1938, after the annexation of Austria , he spent six months in Gestapo custody. Then he was banned from entering the Reichsgau Carinthia .

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