Oberst d.G. Edmund Alexin
Personalia
Born:
Died:
Profession:
Persecution:
Imprisonment 13.04.1938 - 16.06.1938,
Dachau concentration camp 16.06.1938 - 13.03.1939
Honors:
Knight's Cross of the Austrian-Imperial Order of Leopold with war decorations and swords
Order of the Iron Crown III class with war decoration and swords
Military Merit Medal with war decorations and swords
Officer's Cross of the Red Cross with war decorations and swords
Memberships
Curriculum Vitae
Edmund Alexin was born in Budapest, the son of a k.u.k. artillery colonel. He attended elementary school in Kronstadt [today: Brașov in Romania] and one year at the Hungarian secondary school. He then transferred to the military secondary school in Eisenstadt and then to the infantry cadet school in Vienna, from where he joined Infantry Regiment 72 'Freiherr von David' in 1898. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1899. Between 1903 and 1905, he graduated from the war college in Vienna and left as a first lieutenant. He subsequently married. However, the marriage remained childless.
Edmund Alexin was stationed in various regiments in different cities of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. He was promoted to captain in 1910 and completed the general staff officer course in 1913. With the outbreak of the First World War, he was first deployed on the Austro-Hungarian Eastern Front and then on the Italian front. In 1915 he became a major and in 1917 a lieutenant colonel. In 1918, he became the last Chief of Staff of the Burgenland Division.
After the defeat and the break-up of Austria-Hungary, Edmund Alexin and his wife moved to Graz. There he joins the Reichsbund der Österreicher
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His attitude during the system and prohibition period was impeccably patriotic and he supported the goals and interests of the VF at every opportunity.
He describes himself as an absolute supporter of independent Austria and was also active as a higher official of the VF in the 7th district.
Alexin was very active in the interests of the VF and 'independent Austria' and repeatedly denounced 'grievances', Nazi propaganda and illegal activities in reports and submissions to VF offices (Zernatto).
Inquiries are still being made into the current conduct of the respondent. It is clear that Alexin must be regarded as a radical patriot and active monarchist (he was, among other things, General Secretary of the Emperor Franz Joseph Association).
There are serious political concerns.
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On March 12, 1938, Edmund Alexin witnessed the demise of a free and independent Austria with the invasion of German troops. He was arrested by the Gestapo on April 13, 1938 and deported to Dachau concentration camp on June 16, 1938. He was released there on March 13, 1939.
On his return to Vienna, he was assigned to the Vienna Military Command as a courier. In Vienna, Edmund Alexin witnessed the liberation of Austria by the Allied troops in April 1945. He joined the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP Comradeship of the Politically Persecuted and Confessors for Austria
Citations
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (ÖStA)
Archiv der Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten (KPV)
