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Josef Fitzthum (September 14, 1896, Loimersdorf, Lower Austria — January 10, 1945, Wiener Neudorf) was a senior ''SS Gruppenführer, Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS und Polizei'', politician, and ''Beauftragter des Reichsführer-SS Albanien'' (special representative of the Reichsführer SS in Albania) during World War II. ==Biography== Josef Fitzthum was born in 1896 on the Austrian-Hungarian frontier, the son of Josef Fitzthum, an administrative official from western Bohemia. Fitzhum undertook his education at the Austrian ''Militärunterrealschule'' and the ''oberrealschule''. From 1916 he served as a ''Leutnant'' (lieutenant) in the 3rd Regiment of the ''Tiroler Kaiserjäger'' of the Austro-Hungarian Army and was the first junior officer to be awarded the Order of the Iron Crown. In 1917 he was promoted to ''Oberleutnant'' (senior lieutenant) and was deployed to the war on the Italian front. In mid-January 1919 he was dismissed from the much reduced Austrian army (''Volkswehr'') and from 1920 he worked in the civil service. From 1923 to 1933 he worked as a secretary at the Vienna School of Applied Arts.〔''Josef Fitzthum in der Datenbank der Reichstagsabgeordneten''〕 Fitzthum joined the NSDAP (the Nazi party) in 1931 (Membership Number 363,169) and in 1932, the ''SS'' (Membership Number 41,936).〔''Josef Fitzthum auf web.genealogie.free.fr''〕 In 1933 he was sentenced to two and a half years in political detention, from which he twice escaped. In April 1932 he joined the ''XI. SS Standard'' in Vienna, which he led from September 1932 for six months. After his expatriation from Austria, starting in March 1936, he was appointed a full-time ''SS Standartenführer'' (colonel). In May 1936 he was posted to the SS ''Germania'', and led the 58th SS regiment in Cologne from the beginning of January 1937 until the end of September 1937. Fitzthum was married in 1937 and had two children. In 1938 he became a member of the Berlin ''Reichstag''. From October 1937 to March 1938 he was involved in ''SD'' activities. Following the ''Anschluss'' he was appointed Deputy Chief of police in Vienna from 12 March 1938 to March 1940. In March 1938 he was involved in several high profile meetings and public ceremonies with Heinrich Himmler, Kurt Daluege, Karl Wolff, Reinhard Heydrich and Ernst Kaltenbrunner reviewing Austrian police forces in Vienna. In 1940 he was removed from his post following accusations of corruption.〔''Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007''; ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8. (''Aktualisierte 2. Auflage''), p. 154.〕 In 1940 Fitzthum was transferred to the ''Waffen SS'' and appointed as an infantry commander in the ''SS-Totenkopfverbände''. Between mid-April 1942 and May 1943 he was in the Netherlands as a commander for the establishment of the ''Aufstellung von Freiwilligen-Verbänden der Waffen-SS'' (voluntary associations of the ''Waffen SS''). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josef Fitzthum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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