Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Globocnik (April 21, 1904 - May 31, 1945) was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. Image File history File links Globocnik. ... Image File history File links Globocnik. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop...

Born to an Austrian family of Slovene descent in Trieste (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Location within Italy Quay along the Adriatic Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Italian Trieste, German and Friulian Triest, Slovenian and Croatian Trst) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border to Slovenia. ... Official languages Latin, German, Hungarian Established church Roman Catholic Capital & Largest City Vienna pop. ...

His father was a Habsburg cavalry lieutenant, later a senior postal official. His mother was born in Hungary. Globocnik could claim partial Germany ancestry, since both grandmothers bore German names. The family moved from Trieste to Klagenfurt. There is much conflicting evidence as to when this precisely took place, but according to a 1935 report of the Prefecture of Trieste, the move occured in 1923. Location within Italy Quay along the Adriatic Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Italian Trieste, German and Friulian Triest, Slovenian and Croatian Trst) is a city and port in northeastern Italy right on the border to Slovenia. ... Klagenfurt is the capital of the federal state of Austrian Carinthia (German Kärnten, in Austria, on the Glan River. ...

Odilo Globocnik first worked as a building tradesman. From 1922 he was an active member of pre-Nazi Carinthian paramilitary organisations. He joined the Austrian Nazi party in 1930 and became a member of the SS in 1933. Between 1933 and 1935 he was arrested four times by Austrian authorities for his activities in the illegal NSDAP and for high treason. Altogether, he spent over a year in jail. Carinthia (German Kärnten, Slovenian Koroška) is a Austrian state or Land, located in the south of Austria. ... Austrian National Socialism was a Pan-Germanic movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi swastika 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. ...

Regarded as an extremely energetic and dynamic person, Globocnik quickly climbed the NSDAP career ladder. He was appointed Deputy Gauleiter for all of Austria in 1933. He became one of the leading Austrian National Socialists who helped to organise the overthrow of the Austrian government and make the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich possible. As a reward for his assistance, Adolf Hitler made Globocnik Gauleiter of Vienna on May 24, 1938. (help· info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. ... 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. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Croatian and Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

But soon his decline commenced. One reason was that Globocnik loved using an astonishing number of dirty tricks, in particular in financial matters. Another reason was that he was an absolutely uncompromising person who was extremely successful in finding new opponents and enemies in the party ranks, mainly in the Catholic wing of the NSDAP. More importantly, Hermann Göring, Germany's economic dictator, endeavored to have Globocnik removed from his high party office. On January 30, 1939, Globocnik was suspended as a Gauleiter. Hitler proclaimed Josef Bürckel as his successor. Himmler proceeded to pardon Globocnik. Hermann Göring Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was an early member of the Nazi party, founder of the Gestapo, and one of the main leaders of Nazi Germany. ... January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 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. ... Joseph Bürckel, (b. ...

Globocnik soon volunteered for the Waffen-SS and served as a non-commissioned officer with the SS-Standarte Germania from March until November 1939, serving with distinction in the German invasion of Poland. Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler had not forgotten one of his most obedient servants: surprisingly enough, on November 9, 1939, Globocnik was appointed SS and Police Leader in the Lublin district of the General Government. After a disappointing party career, Globocnik now had a second chance in the ranks of the SS and the police. The following years proved what he was capable of. Heinrich Himmler as the Reichsführer-SS Reichsführer-SS was a special SS rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945. ... Heinrich Himmler â–¶ (help· info) (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Higher SS and Police Leaders were senior Nazi Party officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to the Second World War. ... Lublin (pronounce: [lublin]) is the biggest city in eastern Poland and the capital of Lublin Voivodship with a population of 355,954 (2004). ... The General Government (in full General government for the occupied Polish areas, in German Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete) was the name given by Germany to the governing authority in Poland after its occupation by the Wehrmacht in September and October 1939. ...

On October 13, 1941, Globocnik received a verbal order from Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on Belzec, the first extermination camp in the General Government. The construction of three more extermination camps, Sobibór and Maidanek in the Lublin district, and Treblinka at Małkinia Górna, followed in 1942. All in all, Globocnik was responsible for killing more than 1.5 million Polish, Slovak, Czech, Dutch, French, Russian, German, and Austrian Jews and non-Jews in the death camps which he organized and supervised. He exploited Jews and non-Jews as slave labourers in his own forced labour camps, and was responsible for seizing the properties and valuables of murdered inmates while in charge of Operation Reinhard. October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Heinrich Himmler â–¶ (help· info) (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ... Belzec was the first of the Nazi German extermination camps created for implementing Operation Reinhard during the Holocaust. ... Majdanek - crematorium Extermination camp (German Vernichtungslager) was the term applied to a group of death camps set up by Nazi Germany during World War II for the express purpose of killing the Jews of Europe, although members of some other groups whom the Nazis wished to exterminate, such as Roma... Sobibór was a Nazi extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard. ... Monument at Majdanek Memorial. ... Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. ... One million (1000000), one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ... Unfree labour is a generic or collective term for forms of work, especially in modern or early modern history, in which adults and/or children are employed without wages, or for a minimal wage. ... The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. ... Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard, Einsatz Reinhard, Aktion Reinhardt or Einsatz Reinhardt in German) was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the former General Government and rob their possessions. ...

After Mussolini's downfall, and because he looted some of the stolen assets from the extermination camps, Globocnik was transferred from the Polish General Government to Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the German-occupied portion of Italy in September 1943 and was stationed in his hometown of Trieste. He was appointed Higher SS and Police Leader of the Operation Zone of Adriatic Coastal Region. Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... SS and Police Leaders were senior Nazi Party officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to the Second World War. ...

His main task there was combatting partisans, but again, he played a leading role in the persecution of Italian Jews. With the advance of Allied troops, Globocnik retreated into Austrian Carinthia and finally went into hiding high in the mountains in an alpine hut near Weissensee, still in company of his closest staff members. Payerhütte in the Ortler Alps, Italy An Alpine hut is a building located in the mountains intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers and climbers. ...

According to some accounts, he was tracked down and captured by British troops at the Möslacher Alm, overlooking the Weissensee Lake on May 31, 1945, and may have committed suicide either the same day in Paternion or later while in prison awaiting trial by biting on his capsule of cyanide. Other sources put his death in either early May, 1945 or June, 1945 at the hands of either partisans or a Jewish revenge squad. May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... It has been suggested that Suicide and culture be merged into this article or section. ... A cyanide is any chemical compound that contains the cyano group C≡N, with the carbon atom triple-bonded to the nitrogen atom. ...

There is a false story circulating that Globocnik did not die at all, but was turned over to US intelligence by the British. This is based on a supposedly "official US document signed by US CIC S/A Operations Officer Andrew L. Venters, dated October 27, 1948, more than three years AFTER his supposed death". However this document was exposed as a forgery in the 1980s by the investigative writer and historian, Gitta Sereny; she gives all details in a long article in the Observer newspaper ("Spin Time For Hitler", London, April 21, 1996). Gitta Sereny is a Hungarian-born British biographer, historian and journalist. ...

Trivia

Globocnik features as a major character in the alternate history Fatherland by Robert Harris. In the novel, which revolves around the notion that Germany had been victorious in World War II, Globocnik (commonly referred to by his nickname "Globus") has risen to become a feared leader within the Gestapo. Globocnik is the main villain in the story. He is also a minor character in Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel In the Presence of Mine Enemies. Alternative history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Fatherland is a 1992 thriller novel by the English writer and journalist Robert Harris which doubles as a work of alternate history and postulates a world in which Nazi Germany was triumphant in World War II. // Plot Spoiler warning: The story begins in Nazi Germany in April 1964, in the... Robert Harris is an English TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the city of Nottingham. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas). ... The Deaths Head emblem similar to Skull and crossbones, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The ▶ (help· info) (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... A typical cartoon villain. ... Harry Turtledove at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949), is a historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ... In the Presence of Mine Enemies (ISBN 0-451-45959-8) is a novel by Harry Turtledove. ...

Literature

• Siegfried J. Pucher, "... in der Bewegung führend tätig". Odilo Globocnik - Kämpfer für den "Anschluss", Vollstrecker des Holocaust, Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt/Celovec 1997, ISBN 3854352786.
• Joseph Poprzeczny, "Hitler's man in the East – Odilo Globocnik", McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, and London 2004, ISBN 786416254.

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