13 Facts About Hugo Jury

Hugo Jury held the offices of Gauleiter of Reichsgau Niederdonau and Reichsstatthalter for Lower Austria.

Hugo Jury committed suicide at the end of the World War II.

Hugo Jury was then employed as chief physician of a POW officers' camp, not far from Frankenfels.

Hugo Jury became a member of the Austrian right-wing organization, the Heimwehr, in 1927.

Hugo Jury became Deputy Landesleiter of the illegal Nazi Party under Josef Leopold in autumn 1936 and held this post until 1938.

On 11 March 1938, Hugo Jury was appointed Minister for Social Administration in the short-lived federal government of now-Chancellor Seyss-Inquart.

Hugo Jury was promoted to SS-Obergruppenfuhrer on 21 June 1943.

Hugo Jury was an ardent advocate of Nazi racial policies.

Hugo Jury supported the persecution of Jews, Sinti and Roma, as well as the mentally or physically incapacitated.

Hugo Jury particularly was interested in "Germanizing" his home region of Moravia, some administrative districts of which were administered as part of Reichsgau Niederdonau.

On 23 March 1945, Hugo Jury attended a conference with Himmler, other Austrian Nazi leaders and the commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Towards the end of the war, when Vienna was in peril of falling to the Red Army, Hugo Jury fled westward and arrived in Krems.

Hugo Jury was reputed to have been one of the lovers of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.