Bienerstrasse 8

In March 1938 the Gestapo Innsbruck was officially established at Herrengasse 1 and its head was the Bavarian criminologist Dr. Wilhelm Harster. Between March 1938 and May 1939 the headquarters of the Gestapo was moved to Bienerstrasse 8 - today's administration centre of the Austrian Federal Railways.

On the night of the pogrom many Jews were taken to Bienerstrasse and imprisoned there.

In 1939 the Gestapo moved back to Herrengasse 1 and remained there till May 1945.

November 2008 © Thomas Kleissl

The Gestapo in Innsbruck was run by the following persons:

1938 - 1939 1939 - 1940 1940 - 1941 1941 - 1942 1942 - 1944	Dr. Wilhelm Harster, born in Bavaria in 1904 Dr. Forstner und Dr. Leopold Spann, both Germans Dr. Wilhelm Müller, born in Cologne in 1902 Adolf Hoffmann, born in Mainz in 1904 Werner Hilliges, born in Berlin in 1903 Rudolf Thyrolf, a German born in Warsaw in 1906 Friedrich Busch, a German
1944 - 1945	Dr. Max Nedwed, born in Hallein in 1904

Literature:	Thomas Albrich - Wir lebten wie sie... - Jüdische Lebensgeschichten aus Tirol und Vorarlberg, Haymon Verlag 1999 Wilfried Beimrohr - "Gegnerbekämpfung" - Die Staatspolizeistelle Innsbruck der Gestapo, in: Rolf Steininger / Sabine Pitscheider (Hg.), Tirol und Vorarlberg in der NS-Zeit (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte 19), StudienVerlag 2002, S 131-150 Johannes Breit - Das Arbeitserziehungslager Innsbruck-Reichenau und die Nachkriegsjustiz, Maturafachbereichsarbeit Juni 2007 Andrea Sommerauer - Die Gestapo-Zentrale, in: Gabriele Rath / Andrea Sommerauer / Martha Verdorfer (Hg.), "Bozen Innsbruck - zeitgeschichtliche stadtrundgänge", Folio Verlag 2000, S. 109-113
Reference:	Wilfried Beimrohr - Mail
Translation:	Gerhard Buzas