Thomas Kozich

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Thomas Kozich (born March 24, 1901 in Vienna ; † November 10, 1983 ibid) was an Austrian politician (NSDAP) and SA leader. Among other things, he was temporarily Vice Mayor of Vienna.

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Kozich attended the Stiftsgymnasium Seitenstetten and was active at the football club Vienna and as a long-distance runner and swimmer. As a youth he volunteered to take part in the First World War , where he was deployed in the Hoch- und Deutschmeister infantry regiment . After the war he took part in the Carinthian defensive battle . In the 1920s and 1930s, after dropping out of world trade studies, he earned his living as a bank clerk at Escompte-Bank in Lower Austria . After the Vienna Justice Palace fire , he joined the Styrian Homeland Security in 1927 and took the Korneuburg Oath in May 1930 .

In 1931 Kozich joined the NSDAP . He also became a member of the NSDAP's task force, the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1934 Kozich took over the leadership of the SA subgroup Vienna, with which he became local commander of the SA in Vienna. During the ban on the NSDAP in Austria, Kozich was temporarily imprisoned for illegal Nazi activities. He reached his highest rank in the SA in 1935 when he was promoted to SA brigade leader .

After the " Anschluss of Austria ", Kozich was appointed one of three Vice Mayors of the City of Vienna under Mayor Hermann Neubacher in March 1938 . The others were Gauleiter Franz Richter and SS-Sturmbannführer Hanns Blaschke . Kozich retained his position as Vice Mayor on October 14, 1938. Subsequently, until the end of the Nazi regime in 1945, he was City Councilor of the City of Vienna and Gausport Leader, who was known as the “patron of Viennese football, advocate of the Viennese school and advocate for football fans”.

During the Second World War , he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 1942 and did military service. At the end of the war he was able to settle with his family in Oberzeiring , where he was arrested in May 1945 and was then held as a Soviet prisoner of war . In March 1947, he was sentenced in a people's court to ten years of heavy prison and financial collapse. In 1951 he was pardoned on the occasion of the assumption of office by Federal President Theodor Körner . In 1953 Kozich was employed by the Association of Socialist Academics (BSA).

literature

  • Edmund Glaise von Horstenau , Peter Broucek (ed.): A general in the twilight. The memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau. "Volume 2: Minister in the corporate state and general in the OKW". Series “Publications of the Commission for Modern History of Austria”, Vol. 70, Böhlau, Vienna 1983, ISBN 978-3-205-08743-4 .
  • Gerhard Urbanek: Austria's Germany Complex: Paradoxes in Austro-German Football Mythology , LIT Verlag Münster, 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhard Urbanek: Austria's Germany Complex: Paradoxes in the Austro-German Football Mythology , Münster 2012, p. 261.
  2. ^ Gerhard Urbanek: Austria's Germany Complex: Paradoxes in the Austro-German Football Mythology , Münster 2012, p. 264.
personal data
SURNAME Kozich, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (NSDAP) and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1983
Place of death Vienna