Theodor Habicht
Theodor August Otto Wilhelm Habicht ( born April 4, 1898 in Wiesbaden, † 31 January 1944 Nevel ( Pskov ) ) was a German politician ( NSDAP). He was from 1937 to 1938 mayor of Wittenberg and 1939 of Koblenz and member of the Reichstag. Hawk is the most important mastermind of the July coup, the Vienna SS -Standarte 89, in which the Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss was murdered on 25 July 1934.
Life
Habicht, son of a typesetter changed, after visiting the middle school in Wiesbaden 1908 on the local reformed grammar school. In 1910 he moved with his parents to Berlin, acquired in September 1914, the average high-school maturity and began a business education.
On November 2, 1915, hawk announced at the age of 17 years volunteered for military, where he came into the Field Artillery Regiment 74, which was moved to the Western Front in February 1916. In February 1917 he was transferred to the Field Artillery Regiment 500 to Italy, where he had an accident in December 1917. He healed his injuries in the hospital in January 1918, and then became the foot artillery regiment 129 moved to the Western Front. By demobilization on 4 January 1919, he returned with the Iron Cross 2nd Class awarded as a reserve lieutenant returned to Berlin, where he met German - nationalist ideology, and went to 1920/21 back to Wiesbaden. There he became a clerk and married on May 20, 1922 Margarethe Meyer. It carried out a middle class life and was in a department store department manager perfumery products.
Initially hawk was a Marxist and Communist Party member, but on July 29, 1926 Habicht joined the NSDAP. In April 1927 he became deputy local leader of the NSDAP in Wiesbaden. In July 1927, Hawk founded the weekly magazine Nassauer observers and gave his job to commercial. An offshoot of the Nassauer observer hawk founded in December 1927 Palatine observers; the Journal became the official organ of the district. Due to offenses against the press law hawk was sentenced to 200 RM fine. He justified his offense in the Nassau observers. Hawk soon became local leader of the Nazi Party Wiesbaden and was from the May 20, 1928 the City Council of Wiesbaden. 1930th hawk in the provincial parliament of Hesse- Nassau and was next in the Protestant Church Nassau represented. Due to intra-party clashes took place on 11 June 1930, the renaming of the Nassauer observers in Rheinwacht; the newspaper reported on June 20, 1931 bankruptcy.
On July 21, 1931 Bonelli fled first from the consequences of bankruptcy and took him close down task of building the NSDAP in Austria true as the state inspector. With the advent in the German Reichstag on September 16, 1931 hawk fell under the control immunity for parliamentarians. At the request of Adolf Hitler sat hawk his work in Austria continued. The resignation of the then Austrian Chancellor Karl Buresch hawk was counted as a success. Habicht supported by the downcast February uprising of the Social Democrats with the help of Nazi escaped from prison and fled to Germany Richard Bernaschek. Bureschs successor, Engelbert Dollfuss, trying to prevent cuts by the growing power of the Nazis. Subsequently, plans were made to eliminate Dollfuss. The attack succeeded, the National Socialist coup failed, however. Habicht was relieved of his Nazi institutions, fell out of favor with the leader and disappeared first into oblivion.
The main office for local politics at the national leadership of the NSDAP in 1936 interest to take hawk in municipal services. As a result, he was mayor of Wittenberg. During his tenure, the lengthy Eingemeindeverhandlungen with communities Teuchel (1938 ) and Labetz (1938 ) were completed in Wittenberg. Wittenberg received ministerial approval to the decision of the Municipal Council of 1922 that officially Wittenberg should bear the title " Wittenberg ".
At the urging of the President of the Upper Rhine Province and Gauleiter Gustav Simon Josef Terboven Koblenz Mayor Otto Wittgenstein had to retire on March 20, 1939. The NSDAP certain hawk to succeed and this came into effect on July 4, 1939 to the Office. After August 27, his mobilization took place, he moved on 16 November 1939, the Wehrmacht.
When the Wehrmacht hawk came first in the first Feldersatzbataillon Division 14 in Oschatz / Saxony. Although he was on leave in October 1939 for the purpose of being able to accept the office of mayor in Koblenz, but he did not do this, but applied in 1939 for a position in the Foreign Office in Berlin, where he and Adolf Hitler as Under Secretary Head of Information, Press and broadcasting department has been appointed. The Koblenz solved then his employment ratio as mayor in December 1939.
In September 1940, hawk went back to the military, where he was assigned to the Infantry Regiment 27. In combat operations in the vicinity of the river Pola on 12 September 1941, he was wounded. He cured these injuries in a military hospital III at Konigsberg, the Reserve Hospital 123 Berlin Zehlendorf and the Reservekurlazarett Bad Reichenhall to 4 December 1941. In the spring of 1942 he returned to the fighting troops as a company commander back, was promoted in February 1943 to Captain and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. Because of his probation with the troops he was sent in the autumn of 1943 the battalion leader course and took over on November 25, 1943 the post of a battalion commander in the 83rd Infantry Division.
In fighting this division hawk fell on January 31, 1944, probably in the area around Newel. The promotion to major was posthumously.