Rudolf Hautmann (senior)

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Rudolf Hautmann (born January 20, 1907 in Vienna; † March 15, 1970 ibid) was the head of the Police Auxiliary Service founded in Vienna in 1945.

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Rudolf Hautmann, a trained locksmith, joined the KPÖ in 1926 and was active in the resistance in Austria during the era of Austrofascism and during the Nazi era . On April 10, 1945, immediately after the 11th Simmering district of Vienna was captured by the Red Army during the Battle of Vienna , he took over the economic and food agendas and proved himself in this position.

On April 17, 1945, Hautmann was appointed Police Chief of Vienna by the Soviet city commandant Lieutenant General Blagodatow. He took over the management of the "Police Auxiliary Service for the Vienna City Command", which, from a legal point of view, was subordinate to the Soviet command. His relatives were originally deployed by local commanders of the advancing Soviet troops. The Police Aid Service began even before the Provisional Government enacted the registration of members of the NSDAP and especially of the “illegals” in the Prohibition Act of 1947 , with the creation of lists and initial arrests.

It is considered Hautmann's merit to have given the Police Auxiliary Service a uniform structure and with it to have created a somewhat functioning police apparatus. On the occasion of the re-establishment of the Federal Police Directorate Vienna on June 13, 1945 , 6,800 of the 7,200 auxiliary police officers were taken over. In December 1946, Hautmann was appointed police advisor by Minister of the Interior Oskar Helmer , head of Department III (administrative police department) of the Vienna Federal Police Department until 1954, then worked in the higher police service until 1970. In 1954 he was president of the cultural association of police officers and was mayor of Favoriten in 1954/55. He then worked at the passport office and traffic office and from 1956 headed the office for combating venereal diseases and trafficking in girls for ten years. In 1966 he switched to the investigation office. The initially strong presence of members of the KPÖ within the Viennese police apparatus, not least connected with his person, was pushed back by Police President Josef Holaubek from 1947 and after the withdrawal of the occupying powers in 1955 .

Hautmann was the founder of the Austrian Volleyball Association , which he chaired from 1953 to 1968, a member of the Austrian Olympic Committee and the Federal Sports Council. In the Police Sports Association in Vienna he held the position of vice-president for several years, in the cultural association of police officers from 1954 that of the president. In the Austro-Soviet Society he headed the sports section. In 1969 he received the Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria .

Rudolf Hautmann is the father of the architect Rudolf Hautmann (junior) and the historian Hans Hautmann as well as the father-in-law of the architect Klara Hautmann-Kiss .

Rudolf Hautmann (senior), Klara Hautmann-Kiss and other relatives are buried in the family grave in the urn grove of the Simmering fire hall (Department 7, Ring 3, Group 1, No. 99).

literature

  • Ulrike Wetz: History of the Vienna Police Headquarters from 1945 to 1955 taking into account the time before 1945 . Dissertation. University of Vienna 1971.
  • Hans Hautmann: The reconstruction of the Vienna police in 1945 . In: Path and goal . No. 4, 1975.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 98.
  • Hans Hautmann: The police auxiliary service for the commandant's office of the city of Vienna in 1945 . In: The Alfred Klahr Society and its archive . Alfred-Klahr-Gesellschaft, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-9501204-0-8 , pp. 277f. (Sources & Studies).
  • Winfried Garscha: The role of the security executive in denazification: files and gaps in files. In: Walter Schuster, Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Denazification in regional comparison: the attempt to take stock (= historical yearbook of the city of Linz 2002 ). Archive of the City of Linz , Linz 2004, ISBN 3-900388-55-5 , pp. 551-561.
  • Hans Hautmann: Communists in the Vienna Police . In: "Alfred Klahr Society. Communications". No. 2, June 2012
  • Hans Hautmann: The cultural association of police officers . In: "Alfred Klahr Society. Communications". No. 4, December 2012

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of KPÖ members in the Vienna police at www.klahrgesellschaft.at
personal data
SURNAME Hautmann, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hautmann, Rudolf (senior)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter, police officer and Vienna's first police chief in 1945
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1970
Place of death Vienna