!!!Bürckel, Josef

b. Lingenfeld (Germany), March 30, 1895, 
d. Neustadt/Hardt (Germany, suicide), Sept. 28, 1944. National 
Socialist politician; gauleiter of the NSDAP in Austria, member of the 
National Socialist Reichstag. On March 13, 1938 appointed acting head 
of the NSDAP to carry out the referendum on the Austrian Anschluss 
with Germany, from April 23, 1938 to March 31, 1940 Reich commissioner 
for the reunion of Austria with the German Reich, in charge of fully 
integrating the "Eastern March" (Ostmark, i.e. Austria) politically, 
economically and culturally into the German Reich; from Jan. 30, 1939 
to August 7, 1940 gauleiter of Vienna. Then head of civil 
administration in Lothringen/Lorraine and from 1941 governor of the 
"Western March" (Westmark); from January 1, 1942 also held a leading 
position (SS Oberfuehrer) in the staff of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, 
Heinrich Himmler.

!Literature
P. Huettenberg, Die Gauleiter, 1968; G. Botz, B. und die 
Wiener Stadtverwaltung, Wiener Geschichtsblaetter 30, 1975.



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