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Roman hunter

Roman Jäger (born October 24, 1909 in Weißenkirchen in der Wachau (Lower Austria); missing since September 22, 1944 near Vydrau , Slovakia ) was a National Socialist lawyer and since 1938 a member of the National Socialist Reichstag .

Life

Jäger was the son of a winemaking family. After attending elementary school in Weißenkirchen and high schools in Seitenstetten and Krems an der Donau , he began studying law in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1934. His further professional career was impaired by his political activities: after a few months at the district court of Spitz an der Danube he was dismissed "as unworthy of trust" and then worked in his parents' business.

From 1924 he worked in the National Socialist Workers' Youth, a forerunner of the Hitler Youth . From 1929 he appeared as a party speaker. On June 24, 1931, he joined the NSDAP . In 1932 he was a functionary in the NSDStB and in 1933 he was banned from the youth education activity that he exercised as a district youth gymnastics warden. Jäger was imprisoned from August to October 1933 for his political activities. He was later a district leader in the Waldviertel and, because of his political activities, escaped in the spring of 1936, imprisoned and given an amnesty in July. A later entry in the Reichstag handbook indicates for 1937 that Jäger had already been a district training director and even a district leader that year. In March 1938 Jäger was appointed SA Standartenführer . Again in 1938 he fled until the amnesty. After the "Anschluss" he was for a short time Gauleiter of Lower Danube , later Governor of Lower Austria and county leaders of the Reich Federation for Physical Education . Jäger had been a member of the Reichstag since 1938. From May 1938 on, he was head of regional training for the NSDAP in the Niederdonau region .

In 1938, Jäger described himself as a Roman Catholic in his vita for the Reichstag handbook . When he married Helene Naber-Binder , the former leader of the BDM -Obergau Niederdonau, in December 1940 , the registry office registered him as a “ believer in God ”.

During the Second World War, Jäger took part in the German army in 1939/40, among other things in the French campaign. From 1940 to 1944 he was indispensable as a full-time political leader . In 1944 he was deployed as a lieutenant on the Eastern Front. Most recently, a hunter was with Grenadier Regiment 946, the 357th Infantry Division . It is very likely that he was killed in the fighting against the Red Army over the Duklapass in eastern Slovakia ( Eastern Carpathian Operation ) in September 1944. The Regional Court of Vienna declared him dead in 1955 and determined September 22, 1944 as the date of death.

literature

  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Herta Weber-Stumfohl: Ostmarkmädel: an adventure book from the early years and the illegal fighting time of the BDM in the Ostmark. Young Generation Publishing House, Berlin 1940.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weber-Stumfohl: Ostmarkmädel. 1940, pp. 145 and 147
  2. ↑ Change of leadership in the BDM. ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online: Feldpostbrief Niederdonau, 1940, Issue 4, pp. 21-24, accessed on January 3, 2018
  3. ↑ Kleine Volks-Zeitung, November 26, 1938, p. 8
personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Weißenkirchen in the Wachau
DATE OF DEATH after September 22, 1944