Walter Rentmeister
Walter Rentmeister (born December 3, 1894 in Feldbach , † December 3, 1964 in Peggau ) was an Austrian politician ( DNSAP , NSDAP ). Rentmeister was a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament from 1932 to 1933 .
Live and act
Rentmeister was born the son of a merchant in Feldbach in Styria and raised a Roman Catholic . He attended high school in Graz and Klagenfurt and, after graduating from high school, studied pharmacy at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , where he became a member of the university choir Barden . He completed his studies in April 1919 with the academic degree Mag. Pharm. and temporarily performed military service.
During the First World War he served in the k.-und-k. 4th Infantry Regiment and was assigned to a medical force as a pharmacist. In 1919 he fled to Klagenfurt and on September 1, 1919 founded the DNSAP's Klagenfurt branch. He was elected to the local council in 1922 and was regional leader of the National Socialist Party between 1923 and 1925. In 1926 he went to Vienna, where he also took over the Gauleitung until October 1928 in the district under the Viennese forest and in Northern Burgenland. After moving to Oberlaa in 1931 , he worked as an employee in a pharmacy and represented the NSDAP in the Lower Austrian state parliament between May 21, 1932 and June 23, 1933.
After the NSDAP was banned in Austria, Rentmeister lost his mandate in the state parliament and fled to Germany, where he was working for the German Labor Front in Berlin, as he was wanted on a wanted list . With effect from October 30, 1933, his Austrian citizenship was revoked. From May 1, 1934, he was a department head employee of the Central Office of the Labor Front.
In 1938 Rentmeister returned to Austria. In April he became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for Austria. In 1941 Rentmeister volunteered in the Wehrmacht, where he was assigned to a medical depot for the Africa Corps in Naples . After his return to Vienna in 1943, he became a city councilor.
After the end of the war Rentmeister was arrested in Sankt Gilgen on May 22, 1945 and deported to Germany on the basis of his German citizenship acquired in 1934. Rentmeister was able to return to Vienna in 1947, where he was sentenced to six years in prison and financial collapse in 1951. In 1959 he bought a pharmacy in Styria.
literature
- Lower Austria Landtag Directorate (ed.): Biographical manual of the Lower Austrian Landtag and the Lower Austrian provincial government 1921–2000 (= Lower Austria publications. Volume 128). Lower Austria Landtag Directorate , St. Pölten 2000, ISBN 3-85006-127-2 .
- Maren Seliger: Sham parliamentarism in the Führer state: "Community representation" in Austrofascism and National Socialism: Functions and political profiles Vienna councilors and councilors 1934-1945 in comparison , LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 3643502338 , p. 857.
- Erich Stockhorst : 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . 2nd Edition. Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 .
Web links
- Walter Rentmeister on the website of the Lower Austria state parliament
- Walter Rentmeister in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rentmeister, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rentmeister, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (DNSAP, NSDAP), MdR, member of the state parliament |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd December 1964 |
| Place of death | Peggau |