Viktor Altmann

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Viktor Altmann (born March 7, 1900 in Vienna , † March 10, 1960 in Monte Carlo ) was an Austrian political activist . In the 1930s he was a leader in the Austrian Home Guard movement.

Life and activity

Altmann was the son of a regional court president . After attending school, he studied law ("Jus"). With official date of 22 July 1925, he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna to Dr. phil. He worked as a university assistant and then became police superintendent. He achieved at least the rank of Police Council.

As a monarchist, Altmann was active in the 1930s in the Austrian Home Guard movement, which he co-founded. He became one of Emil Fey's closest collaborators , for whom he took on duties as adjutant and press officer. In Fey's staff Altmann was, in the words of Hellmut Andics, "a kind of private foreign minister of the Vice Chancellor", who established underground connections for Fey to foreign embassies and journalists.

The National Socialist police authorities also suspected Altmann, as can be seen from a surviving investigation file, of the author of the work Braunbuch published in 1933 in the Austrian State Printing House. To be a swastika against Austria , a combat and educational pamphlet that was directed against the disintegration work of the Austrian National Socialists against the Austrian state with the aim of its destruction and its integration into the German Reich .

After the annexation of Austria by the German Reich in March 1938, Altmann fled to Great Britain via Switzerland and France. The National Socialists expatriated him and announced his expatriation in the Reichsanzeiger . Furthermore, his doctoral degree was revoked on September 11, 1943 because of his parentage, since he was "considered unworthy of the academic degree of a German university as a Jew" (the revocation was revoked by the University of Vienna on May 15, 1955 or for annulled from the start).

The Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB in the spring of 1940 , a directory of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, identified and arrested subsequent SS special commands with special priority from the occupying forces should be.

He was interned in Great Britain from 1939 to 1942 as an Enemy Alien .

In Great Britain Altmann was probably in contact with the British intelligence service.

literature

  • Heinz Lunzer, Victoria Lunzer-Talos: Joseph Roth in exile in Paris 1933 to 1939 , 2008, p. 211.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viktor Altmann. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Scheu: The way into the unknown. Austria's curve of fate 1929–1938 , 1972, p. 107; Hans Habe: All My Sins. An Autobiography , 1957, p. 178.
  3. ↑ Hellmut Andics: The state that nobody wanted , 1962, p. 448.
  4. ↑ Michael Hepp / Hans Georg Lehmann: The expatriation of German citizens 1933-45 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger , 1985, p. 598.
  5. ↑ Memorial Book of the University of Vienna .
  6. ^ Entry on Altmann on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
  7. ^ Viktor Altmann in the database Britain, Enemy Aliens and Internees
  8. ^ Winfried Meyer: Company Seven. A rescue operation for those threatened by the Holocaust from the Foreign Office / Defense in the High Command of the Wehrmacht , 1993, p. 500.
personal data
SURNAME Altmann, Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian political activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1960
Place of death Monte Carlo