Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt
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Imprisonment 16.03.1938 - 02.04.1938,
Dachau concentration camp 02.04.1938 - 27.09.1939,
Flossenbürg concentration camp 27.09.1939 - 02.03.1940,
Dachau concentration camp 02.03.1940 - 02.01.1945,
Murdered on 02.01.1945
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Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt is born as the son of the k.u.k. Officer Major Ferdinand Eifler Edler von Lobenstedt was born. His father was elevated to the hereditary nobility on April 25, 1894 on the basis of an officer's privilege and rose to the rank of field marshal lieutenant. Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt completed his officer training as a lieutenant in 1909 and joined the Sachsendragoner. He took part in the First World War, was wounded and disarmed as a captain.
Like Schutzbund chairman Julius Deutsch, he advocated a military orientation for the Schutzbund and shaped its organization and training accordingly. This brought him into conflict with Theodor Körner, who only considered the Schutzbund's mission to be promising if it was also supported by actions of the workers' movement. Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt's operational plan for the Schutzbund contained a number of terrorist elements; in the event of an uprising, all officers of the army and the police were to be rendered harmless immediately; he advocated "black lists" on which the relatives of the opposing leaders (members of the government, banks, editorial offices ...) were to be detained, and the holding of "revolutionary tribunals" and the application of so-called martial law. "The active part of the bourgeoisie must be isolated and the application of class terror against arrested opponents of the bourgeois parties must be proclaimed"
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Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt was unable to take part in the socialist uprising in February 1934 as he was in prison at the time. He was nevertheless tried in April 1935 along with twenty other Schutzbund functionaries and sentenced to 18 years in prison. However, he was released on parole with the Christmas amnesty of 1935, but was destitute due to the withdrawal of his officer's pension. Shortly before the German Wehrmacht invaded Austria, Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt tried unsuccessfully to establish contact between illegal socialists and government forces in order to defend Austria's freedom and independence militarily if necessary.
After the occupation of Austria in March 1938, Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt was arrested by the Gestapo on March 16, 1938 and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on the so-called Prominent Transport. When Dachau concentration camp was cleared for the SS at short notice at the end of September 1939 after the outbreak of the Second World War, Alexander Eifler von Lobenstedt was sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp on September 27, 1939. On March 2, 1940, he was transferred back from Flossenbürg concentration camp to Dachau concentration camp. He remained there until shortly before the end of the war. He was murdered there on January 2, 1945.
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Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
Wikipedia unter de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Eifler
Das Rote Wien unter www.dasrotewien.at/seite/eifler-alexander-edler-von-lobenstedt
