1939 - 1941 Governor of Krakow, Polandįollowing the defeat of Poland in September 1939, the Germans established a puppet state known as the General Government which was ruled over by Hans Frank. Because of the fact that the former Austrian bureaucracy was strictly Anti-Semitic, only a small fraction of the officials were actually dismissed. The government body he headed known as the "Wächter-Kommission", and responsible for the dismissal and/or compulsory retirement of all Austrian officials who did not conform with the Nazi regime. In 1937 he started working in the relief organization of Austrian NS-refugees in Berlin.ġ938 - 1939 State Secretary in the Nazi government in Viennaįollowing the “Anschluss”, (the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany) on 12 March 1938, Wächter held the post of state commissar in the "Liquidation Ministry" under the Nazi governor of Austria Seyss-Inquart from to 30 April 1939. In 1935 his Austrian citizenship was denied and German citizenship conferred upon him whilst he completed his academic training and education as a lawyer in Germany. He entered the SS on 1 January 1932, (SS No: 235368) and completed his German military service in Freising, Bavaria.
After the failed coup, Wächter fled to Nazi Germany. Wächter continued to work for the Nazi Party in Vienna as organizer and defender of accused Nazis in court and subsequently played a leading role in the organization of the failed July Putsch of 25 July 1934, which eventually led to the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by his former Vice-chancellor Major Emil Fey. On 11 September 1932, Wächter married Charlotte Bleckmann (born 20 October 1908) daughter of a Styrian steel magnate.
His clients included indicted members of the Nazi Party, which he joined on 24 October 1930(party No: 301093). He received his doctorate in 1925 and in 1929 began practicing as a lawyer. In 1923 he joined the SA and became Austrian Champion in M8+ (eight-man rowing team). The family moved to Vienna where Wächter studied law and joined a number of diverse national and sporting organizations.
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Please improve this article by adding a reference.įor information about how to add references, see Template:Citation. This article does not contain any citations or references. In 1922, after the first Austrian Republic was established, he was twice nominated as Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Monsignor Dr. In the last year of the First World War, Joseph Freiherr von Wächter was decorated with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Maria Theresia, that earned him the title of Freiherr (Baron). His father Joseph Freiherr von Wächter, was born in northern Bohemia and served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Otto Wächter was the third child and only son of Martha Pfob, daughter of the owner of the Graben Hotel in Vienna Centre.
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