!!!Rauter, Hanns Baptist

Rauter, Hanns Baptist, b. Klagenfurt (Carinthia), Feb. 4, 1895, 
d. Walsdorper Flakte (Netherlands, executed), March 25, 1949, 
politician (Heimatschutz, NSDAP). Together with W.  Pfrimer he founded 
the "Selbstschutzverband Steiermark" in 1922, in 1931 played a leading 
part in the  Pfrimer-Putsch ; systematically led the Steirischer 
Heimatschutz over to the National Socialists and led the NS uprising 
in Carinthia in July 1934; became member of the German Reichstag in 
1938, 1940 superior commander of the SS and the police in Holland. 
After his attempted assassination on March 6, 1945 H. Himmler ordered 
the execution of 225 Dutchmen. R. was extradited to Holland and 
sentenced to death in 1949.

!Literature
W. Wiltschegg, Die Heimwehr, 1985; R. B. Birn, Die 
Hoeheren SS- und Polizeifuehrer, 1986.



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