August Eigruber (born 16 April 1907 in Steyr; died 28 May 1947 in Landsberg am Lech) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Steyr is a town (population 39,495 as of 2001) in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria, located on the Enns river. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Landsberg am Lech is a town in the southwest of Bavaria, Germany, about 50 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. ... Landeshauptmann (literally country captain or state captain) is the German title of the governor of a state of Austria or of the Italian province of Bolzano (South Tyrol). ... Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ...

After finishing middle school, Eigruber underwent training in geodesy and fine mechanics at the Austrian Federal Teaching Institution for Iron- and Steelworking. Thereafter, he was active in his profession. It has been suggested that geodetic system be merged into this article or section. ... Mechanics refers to: a craft relating to machinery (from the Latin mechanicus, from the Greek mechanikos, meaning one skilled in machines), or a range of disciplines in science and engineering. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... The old steel cable of a colliery winding tower Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...

In November 1922 he joined the National Socialist Worker Youth of Austria, whose leader he became in 1925. In April 1928, he joined the Nazi Party, whose Steyr-Land district leadership he took up in October 1930. 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Nazi swastika symbol The National Socialist German Workers Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), better known as the NSDAP or the Nazi Party was a political party that was led to power in Germany by Adolf Hitler in 1933. ...

For his activities in the NSDAP, which was banned in Austria, Eigruber was sentenced to several months in prison in, among other places, the Anhaltelager in Wöllersdorf.

From May 1935, Eigruber was the Gau Director (Gaugeschäftsführer) for the banned Party in the Upper Austria Gau, and he took over complete leadership of the Gau as of 1936. After Anschluss, he was appointed Landeshauptmann on 14 March 1938. From 10 April 1938 he furthermore functioned as a ministerial adviser. Gau can denote Gau, the German term for shire. ... German troops march into Austria on 12 March 1938. ... March 14 is the 73rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (74th in Leap years) with 292 days remaining in the year. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Shortly before this, in March 1938, Eigruber joined the SA, in which he bore the rank of Brigadeführer. On 22 May 1938, he transferred to the SS as a Standartenführer. The seal of SA The â–¶ (help· info) (SA, German for Storm Division and is usually translated as stormtroops or stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organisation of the NSDAP – the German Nazi party. ... Brigadeführer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945. ... May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The infamous double-sig rune SS insignia. ... SS-Standartenführer insignia Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in both the SA and the SS. First created as a title in 1925, in 1928 the rank became one of the first commissioned Nazi ranks and was bestowed upon those SA and SS officers...

On 1 April 1940, he was installed as Reich Governor (Reichstatthalter) of Oberdonau, which in November 1942 led to his appointment as Reich Defence Commissar (Reichsverteidigungskommissar). In June 1943, Eigruber was promoted to SS-Obergruppenführer. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zalewski SS-Obergruppenführer patch SA-Obergruppenführer insignia Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA. Translated as Senior Group Leader, the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer was held by...

Right after Germany's unconditional surrender in May 1945, Eigruber was arrested in the Salzkammergut by the United States Army, and he was questioned as a witness at the Nuremberg Trials. Unconditional surrender refers to a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. ... Salzkammergut is a resort area east of Salzburg, Austria, spanning the federal states of Upper Austria, Salzburg, and Styria. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces that has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... The Nuremberg Trials is the name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ...

In the so-called Mauthausen Trial, Eigruber was sentenced in March 1946 by a US military court in Dachau to death for his responsibility for crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp. This article is about Dachau town. ... Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz. ...

The sentence was carried out on 28 May 1947. May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...