Theodor Veiter

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Theodor Veiter ( pseudonyms : Theodorich D'Agunto , Theodor Innerer ; born September 22, 1907 in Munich ; † October 23, 1994 in Feldkirch , Vorarlberg) was a German- Austrian international lawyer of German nationalism and Catholic denomination.

Life

Theodor Veiter was the son of the academic painter August Veiter (1869–1957) from Kindberg , Styria, who worked at the Munich Academy from 1902 to 1909 . After the early death of his wife, a Munich woman, the father moved back to his hometown, where he became a member of the Christian Social Party city ​​council. Theodor Veiter graduated from elementary school in Klagenfurt and the Jesuit boarding school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, where he graduated from high school in 1926. According to Brigitte Behal, the network of old Stellans, including Kurt von Schuschnigg and Vorarlberg Governor Otto Ender , subsequently played a decisive role in Veiter's advancement. Before completing his legal studies at the University of Vienna , Veiter became secretary of the Christian Social Fraction in the Austrian Federal Council in 1929 . He also worked as a (part-time) assistant for Karl Gottfried Hugelmann . For his work as President of Pax Romana in Austria from 1936 he received the Order of Gregorius . With Edmund Glaise-Horstenau and Hugo Hantsch , CVer Veiter (member of the K. Ö. St. V. Rudolfina Vienna ) belonged to the German national direction of political Catholicism in Austria. Veiter joined the NSDAP as early as 1933 under the pseudonym Theodor Innerer . Until 1938 he worked, among other things, in the culture department of RAVAG . His personal request to establish NSDAP membership in Austria on May 19, 1938 was rejected by the NSDAP Gaugericht on May 21, 1940 with a reference to Veiter's "political Catholicism" - despite Veiter's assertions that he had worked for the “National Socialist idea”, helped party comrades to have “always been very active in promoting the affiliation idea”, to have “ongoing contact with National Socialists outside of Austria”, the NSDAP- To have supported party purposes "financially in the most varied of forms" and to have contributed "very substantially to the weakening of the earlier system from within".

After 1945, Veiter worked as a lawyer, became an honorary professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Königstein (Germany) and the University of Innsbruck, and specialized in ethnic group law. Among other things, he received the European Charlemagne Prize of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in 1976 . But it remained politically controversial; among other things, he was denied reinstatement in the CV.

Veiter, who had set up a “Research Center for Nationality Rights and Regionalism” in Feldkirch in 1981, spoke in the so-called “Vorarlberger Historikerstreit” after the publication of Harald Walser's book The illegal NSDAP in Tyrol and Vorarlberg 1933–1938 in the Vorarlberger Nachrichten from 24. September 1983 denied the historians of the Johann August Malin Society any academic qualifications and expressly warned against rewriting the Vorarlberg regional history "in the interests of the socio-political left".

Works

  • The Slovenian ethnic group in Carinthia , 1936
  • National autonomy , 1938
  • The Italians in the Austro-Hungarian Empire , 1965
  • The rights of ethnic groups and linguistic minorities in Austria , 1970
  • Nationality Conflict and Ethnic Group Law in the 20th Century , 1984
  • The 34s year. Civil War in Austria , 1984, Amalthea Verlag
  • Bibliography on the South Tyrol question , 2 volumes, 1984/91
  • No final line. The Sudeten Germans and the Czechs, Past and Present , 1994

literature

  • Brigitte Behal: Dr. Theodor Veiter: Metamorphoses of a "Volksdeutsch-Oriented Catholic". In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5. Nazi victims from the Lake Constance area. Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 , pp. 286-308.
  • Brigitte Behal: Continuities and discontinuities of German-national Catholic elites in the period 1930-1965. Dissertation, University of Vienna, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, 2009.
  • Stephan Neuhäuser (Ed.): "We will do a great job ...". The Austro-fascist coup d'état in 1934. Norderstedt 2004.
  • Hans-Rüdiger Minow, in: specifically , 07/98, p. 32 (describes Veiter as a “former Nazi specialist for border subversion”).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Behal, p. 69.
  2. ↑ (Awards). In:  Neues Wiener Journal , August 17, 1937, p. 9 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj.
  3. ↑ Cf. Brigitte Behal, p. 197 ff.
  4. ↑ See Brigitte Behal, pp. 346–349.
  5. ^ Vorarlberger Nachrichten , September 24, 1983, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Veiter, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D'Agunto, Theodorich (pseudonym); Innerer, Theodor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian international lawyer, Catholic nationalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1994
Place of death Feldkirch