Victor band

Victor band

Victor Band , also Viktor Band , (born December 4, 1897 in St. Leonhard (Grödig community) , † October 31, 1973 in Vienna ) was an Austro-German engineer and political functionary (NSDAP). Among other things, he was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

Youth and education

Band was the son of a chief inspector of the Austrian Federal Railways. From 1904 to 1916 he attended elementary school, the lower middle school and the infantry cadet school in Vienna-Breitensee . From 1916 he was an ensign in the First World War . Initially with the Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment No. 34, he was deployed to the front in Russia and Italy and wounded several times. After the armistice , Band joined the “German-Austrian People's Army Battalion XXII”, a right-wing extremist paramilitary force, from which he voluntarily resigned as first lieutenant at the end of 1919.

After studying electrical engineering at the Technical University in Vienna in 1927, Band worked as a graduate engineer in Austria, the USA and the Soviet Union . In the latter he worked in the Lenin telephone factory in Gorky . From 1919 Band belonged to the SDAP for ten years . He was also a member of the social democratic union of industrial employees.

Career in the Nazi movement

From 1929 Band turned to the NSDAP. According to his own statements, he joined the NSDAP on September 1, 1932, when this party was still banned in Austria. Nevertheless, in 1933 he only received a very high membership number (6,199,262), which was not changed despite his applications to the Reich leadership of the NSDAP.

In 1933, Band became a volunteer in the National Socialist voluntary labor service of the SA. From 1933, Band was a member of the regional management in a leading position in the National Socialist “Austrian Labor Service” (ÖAD) before it was dissolved by the Austrian government in 1934. He also became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he quickly advanced. In April 1934 he became the leader of the Vienna SA.

After the failed coup by the Austrian National Socialists , Band was arrested as the leader of the Vienna SA in July 1934 and sentenced by the Vienna Military Court on May 25, 1935 to life imprisonment for high treason . Evidence suggests that he drafted the plans for the attack on the Austrian Federal Chancellery in the course of the July coup in which Engelbert Dollfuss was murdered. He served the sentence up to the amnesty of February 1938 agreed in the course of the Berchtesgaden Agreement .

After the " Anschluss of Austria " to the German Reich in March 1938, Band was released. In the SA he reached his highest rank at this time with the promotion to brigade leader with effect from March 12, 1938. In the Reichstag election of April 10, 1938, Band also received a mandate for the National Socialist Reichstag , which he held until the end of the NS Belonged to rule. In 1940 he was awarded the " Blood Order " of the NSDAP.

From 1939 to 1945 Band was Arbeitsgaufführer of Arbeitsgaus XXXV in Vienna. He initially had the rank of Oberstarbeitsführer in the Reich Labor Service , later he was promoted to Obergeneralarbeitsführer . In 1944 he became councilor of the city of Vienna.

After the war, Band was interned in the Glasenbach camp near Salzburg. From June 27, 1947 he was temporarily imprisoned in the prison of Regional Court I in Vienna. Band died in Vienna in October 1973.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of Austria in the Greater German Reichstag. In: Mitteilungen des Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 48 (2000), pp. 229–327.
• Michael Rademacher: Handbook of the NSDAP Gaue 1928 - 1945. The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations at Gau and district level in Germany and Austria as well as in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia, Sudetenland and Wartheland. Lingenbrink, Vechta 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0216-3 .
• Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 1985, ISBN 3-88741-117-X .

Web links

• Victor Band in the database of the members of the Reichstag