11 Facts About Siegfried Uiberreither

Siegfried Uiberreither was an Austrian Nazi Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of the Reichsgau Styria during the Third Reich.

Siegfried Uiberreither remained active in the underground Party as an ideological officer and, from October 1937, leader of the illegal SA-Brigade 5, "Mittel-Steiermark", based in Graz.

On 1 October 1938, Siegfried Uiberreither officially joined the Nazi Party with membership number 6,102,560.

In May 1939 Siegfried Uiberreither married Kate Wegener, the daughter of Alfred and Else Wegener.

Siegfried Uiberreither was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class and the War Merit Cross, 1st and 2nd class.

Siegfried Uiberreither convened a meeting on 6 May 1941 at Maribor to plan measures that resulted in the expulsion to Serbia of tens of thousands of Slovenes in three waves beginning in July 1941.

On 30 January 1939, Siegfried Uiberreither was awarded the Golden Party Badge.

Siegfried Uiberreither was charged with construction of defensive positions against the anticipated assault by the Red Army, which involved the procurement of forced civilian labor.

In May 1945, after the Allies had overrun the Reich and Hitler was dead, Siegfried Uiberreither was arrested in Murau by British authorities and later testified as a defense witness at the Nuremberg Trials.

Siegfried Uiberreither was held at the former Dachau concentration camp but he fled in 1947 when he learned of plans to hand him over to Yugoslavia for prosecution.

Siegfried Uiberreither died there in 1984, reportedly of Alzheimer's disease.