!!!Eigruber, August

b. Steyr (Upper Austria), April 16, 1907, 
d. Landsberg (Germany, executed), May 28, 1946, lathe operator and 
National Socialist politician. 1927 E. joined the NSDAP, 1936 became 
gauleiter (head of administrative district) in the illegal NSDAP in 
Upper Austria, then on March 12, 1938, took over the office of 
Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. On May 23, 1938, was appointed 
gauleiter of the Upper Danube region, and on March 15, 1940, federal 
representative in the Third Reich; 1943 became "SA Obergruppenfuehrer" 
(highest rank). E. always considered himself a leader of the working 
classes. His actions and decisions became increasingly brutal towards 
the end of World War II. In mid-April 1945 he commanded the killing of 
all Upper Austrians imprisoned in Mauthausen concentration camp, and 
planned to destroy the art treasures stored in the Altaussee salt 
mine. Arrested on August 10, 1945 and sentenced to death in the 
Mauthausen War Trials.

!Literature
H. Slapnicka, OOe., als es Oberdonau hiess, 1978.



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