Walther Oberhaidacher

Walther Oberhaidacher

Walther Philipp Anton Oberhaidacher (born September 22, 1896 in Bozen ; † April 30, 1945 in the Dresden area (uncertain)) was Gauleiter of Styria and a member of the Reichstag in the National Socialist German Reich .

Life

The merchant's son attended elementary school and high school in Bozen and finished his school career in 1915 with the Abitur. During the First World War , Oberhaidacher was employed as a one-year volunteer from April 1915 in the war against Italy , including the Isonzo battles . Oberhaidacher initially did his military service with the 4th Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger , in 1917 he became a lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war he studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Graz , but without finishing his studies. In civil life Oberhaidacher worked as a factory technician and from 1926 to 1933 he was technical manager in a bed spring factory.

Since April 1, 1924, Oberhaidacher was a member of the old NSDAP in Austria and held the offices of secretary and then paymaster in the Graz branch. After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in Austria , he joined the party on September 10, 1926 ( membership number 50.478). From January to April 1928 he was Gau Propaganda Leader and from the beginning of May 1928 Deputy Gau Leader for Styria ; on November 25, 1928 he became Gauleiter there. He published the Nazi organ Der Kampf . From 1929 to 1933 he was a councilor in Graz. In 1933/34 Oberhaidacher was NSDAP negotiator in negotiations with leaders of the Styrian Homeland Security for the purpose of integrating the Styrian Homeland Security into the NSDAP. After two arrests in 1933, Oberhaidacher stayed in Munich from the end of June 1933; in July 1934 he was given leave of absence as a Gauleiter.

From March 1936 until his death Oberhaidacher was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Chemnitz. In mid-January 1938 he was trained at the police administration in Düsseldorf . On January 30, 1938, he joined the SS (membership no. 291.207) with the rank of SS-Oberführer . On November 9, 1938, he was promoted to SS Brigade Leader, the highest rank he achieved in the SS. From August 4, 1938 to March 1944, Oberhaidacher was police chief in Bochum . From January 5, 1939, he was an honorary member of the People's Court . From the end of March 1944, Oberhaidacher was police chief of Dresden. In addition, from October 1944 he was initially acting and from the beginning of February 1945 he was definitely in command of the Ordnungspolizei at the Higher SS and Police Leader in Dresden. Since 1944 he was authorized to wear the uniform of a major general in the police. The time and circumstances of Oberhaidacher's death are uncertain: According to other information, he was said to have died in the air raid on Dresden in February 1945 .

literature

• Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Hermagoras-Verlag, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 .
• Nazi apologetic: Karl Höffkes : Hitler's political generals. The Gauleiter of the 3rd Reich; a biographical reference work. Grabert-Verlag , Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-87847-163-7 .
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. Aschendorff, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-402-06799-4 , p. 230 ( Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. 22, A, 16 = historical work on Westphalian regional research. Economic and social history group. 16).

Web links

• Walther Oberhaidacher in the database of members of the Reichstag
• Biography of Walther Oberhaidacher on the Internet portal "Westphalian History"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46). Biographical manual. , Münster 2004, p. 230.
2. ^ ^{A b} Wolfgang Graf: Austrian SS Generals. Himmler's reliable vassals , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 2012, p. 319f.