33 Facts About Alfred Frauenfeld

Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld was an Austrian Nazi leader.

Alfred Frauenfeld attended Volksschule and Realschule there, obtaining his Matura in May 1916.

Alfred Frauenfeld then entered the Austro-Hungarian Army and fought in the First World War.

Alfred Frauenfeld saw 15 months of front-line service with Feldjagerbattalion 21 on the Italian front as an officer candidate in the rank of a sergeant with the pay grade of a lance corporal.

Alfred Frauenfeld then volunteered for the Fliegertruppe, was assigned to Fliegerkompanie 48 and was commissioned as a Leutnant in January 1918.

Alfred Frauenfeld first came to prominence in the politics of Vienna, initially in Hermann Hiltl's movement, before becoming a highly influential figure amongst the city's Nazis during the late 1920s.

Alfred Frauenfeld seems to have joined the Austrian Nazi Party in August 1929 and very quickly took on the role of Bezirksleiter for the Wieden District of Vienna.

Alfred Frauenfeld was confirmed by Adolf Hitler as Nazi Gauleiter of all Vienna in 1930.

From a few hundred members when he took over, Alfred Frauenfeld expanded the Viennese party to 40,000 members by 1934.

Alfred Frauenfeld's success saw him considered for the post of leader of the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931, although ultimately Theodor Habicht was chosen for the role by Gregor Strasser on Hitler's advice.

Alfred Frauenfeld became associated with the terrorist activities of the Nazis within Austria, and the Nazi Party was banned on 19 June 1933 following a violent hand grenade attack on an auxiliary police unit in Krems.

Alfred Frauenfeld was again arrested and held at Wollersdorf internment camp from December 1933 to May 1934.

Alfred Frauenfeld obtained a position in the Nazi Party headquarters in Munich in May 1934, working with the Landesleitung of the now-underground Austrian Nazi Party He was closely involved with Habicht in planning the abortive July Putsch of 1934.

Alfred Frauenfeld was something of a patron of the arts, and enjoyed a close relationship with the conductor Clemens Krauss and had been an actor.

Alfred Frauenfeld was named to its Prasidialrat and served as its Geschaftsfuhrer until 1939.

However, in what proved to be a fraught selection process Alfred Frauenfeld lost out to Odilo Globocnik, an old rival from Carinthia.

Alfred Frauenfeld was instead given the title of Honorary Gauleiter and was awarded the Golden Party Badge.

Alfred Frauenfeld was not sidelined completely and found a number of positions within the Nazi administration.

In October 1939, after the onset of the Second World War, Alfred Frauenfeld was named as a Generalkonsul in the Reich Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became the ministry's representative to the Army.

Alfred Frauenfeld was sent to Oslo, where he was charged with establishing an information and propaganda department at the German embassy.

Alfred Frauenfeld was assigned as the foreign ministry liaison officer to army units in France, the Balkans and the Soviet Union.

On 1 September 1942, Alfred Frauenfeld was appointed as the Generalkommissar for the Generalbezirk Krym-Taurien with headquarters in Melitopol where he served under Reichskommissar Erich Koch, of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine.

Alfred Frauenfeld had jurisdiction over only an area north of the Isthmus of Perekop, with the Crimean peninsula remaining under military administration throughout the war.

Alfred Frauenfeld did not share the ruthlessness of Koch, and the Austrian's unwillingness to follow a policy of brutality towards the local population led to a series of public spats between the two men.

Alfred Frauenfeld had hoped to transfer the South Tyrolean population to the region in order to unite them with their kin as a common Nazi belief suggested that the German inhabitants of South Tyrol were descendants of Goths.

Alfred Frauenfeld further wished to settle the Volga Germans and the Russian Germans of North America to the peninsula.

Alfred Frauenfeld's role had originally been intended for his fellow Austrian Josef Leopold, although his death left the position open.

Alfred Frauenfeld, who finished the war in Germany, was tried and sentenced in absentia to 15 years imprisonment by a Vienna court in 1947.

Alfred Frauenfeld was close to Gustav Adolf Scheel who was active in similar secret societies.

From 1951 to January 1953, Alfred Frauenfeld was a member of the Naumann Circle, a group of former Nazis that tried to infiltrate the West German political parties.

In 1951, Alfred Frauenfeld helped found the Freikorps Deutschland, a Neo-Nazi paramilitary.

However, Alfred Frauenfeld was released from custody several days later, and the charges against him were later dropped.

Alfred Frauenfeld lived out his days in Hamburg, dying in 1977.