Saggen quarter
November 2008 © Thomas Kleissl
8, Bienerstraße
In March 1938 the Gestapo Innsbruck was officially established at 1, Herrengasse and its head was the Bavarian criminologist Dr. Wilhelm Harster. Between March 1938 and May 1939 the headquarters of the Gestapo was moved to 8, Bienerstraße – 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 and remained there till May 1945.
The Gestapo in Innsbruck was run by the following persons:
1938 to 1939 – Dr. Wilhelm Harster, born in Bavaria in 1904
1939 to 1940 – Dr. Forstner und Dr. Leopold Spann, both Germans
1940 to 1941 – Dr. Wilhelm Müller, born in Cologne in 1902
1941 to 1942 – Adolf Hoffmann, born in Mainz in 1904
1942 to 1944 – Werner Hilliges, born in Berlin in 1903; Rudolf Thyrolf, a German born in Warsaw in 1906; Friedrich Busch, a German
1944 to 1945 – Dr. Max Nedwed, born in Hallein in 1904
27, Bienerstraße – Family Krieser
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update 24.10.2018
Translation:
Gerhard Buzas
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