Neubacher, Hermann#
Neubacher, Hermann, b. Wels (Upper Austria), June 24, 1893, d. Vienna, July 1, 1960, economics expert and politician. From 1920 worked in the wood industry, managing director of the GESIBA (communal housing projects in Vienna). From 1933 member of the illegal NSDAP, from March 13, 1938 until May 1939 Mayor of Vienna, from 1940 envoy to Bucharest and Athens. For his activities as "special commissioner South-East" 1940-1945 and as the authorized representative with the military command in Serbia (from 1943) sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Yugoslavia in 1951, but released in 1952 on grounds of ill health. Later worked as a building contractor in Salzburg and 1954-1956 was charged with the expansion of Ethiopia´s administration.
Works#
Kampf um Mitteleuropa, 1932; Sonderauftrag Suedost 1940-45, 1956; Die Festung der Loewen, 1959.