SA Obergruppenführer. Joined the National Socialist Worker Youth of Austria in 1925 and the Nazi Party in 1928. From May 1935, he was the Gauleiter in the Upper Austria Gau. After the Anschluss in 1938, he was appointed Landeshauptmann, joined the SS with the rank of Brigadeführer, and became a Standartenführer under Reinard Heydrich. In April 1945 he ordered the killing of all imprisoned Austrians and anti Nazis in the Mauthausen concemtration camp in Austria. He was arrested after the end of the war, tried in the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out in the prison yard at Landsberg am Lech. He was first buried in Spöttinger Cemetery and later reburied in the family grave of Richard Drauz on the Stadtfriedhof in Heilbronn.
SA Obergruppenführer. Joined the National Socialist Worker Youth of Austria in 1925 and the Nazi Party in 1928. From May 1935, he was the Gauleiter in the Upper Austria Gau. After the Anschluss in 1938, he was appointed Landeshauptmann, joined the SS with the rank of Brigadeführer, and became a Standartenführer under Reinard Heydrich. In April 1945 he ordered the killing of all imprisoned Austrians and anti Nazis in the Mauthausen concemtration camp in Austria. He was arrested after the end of the war, tried in the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials and sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out in the prison yard at Landsberg am Lech. He was first buried in Spöttinger Cemetery and later reburied in the family grave of Richard Drauz on the Stadtfriedhof in Heilbronn.
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