Friedrich Hillegeist [SEP] occupation
Friedrich Hillegeist
Friedrich Hillegeist (born 21 February 1895 in Vienna, died 3 December 1973 in Vienna) was an Austrian politician.
Life.
After attending the Academy of Commerce from 1913 to 1929, Hillegeist worked as a Clerk at Siemens-Schuckert in Vienna. From 1929 he was secretary of the Federation of industry employees in Austria. In 1934 he was a recruiter for small life insurance with the insurance company Phoenix. During the period of National Socialism, he was detained for 14 months, from 1 September 1939
Richard Schmitz, Leopold Figl, Friedrich Hillegeist, and Franz Olah. During the few weeks between the "Anschluss" and the plebiscite, authorities rounded up Social Democrats, Communists, other potential political dissenters, and Austrian Jews, and imprisoned them or sent them to concentration camps. Within a few days of 12 March, 70,000 people had been arrested. The disused northwest railway station in Vienna was converted into a makeshift concentration camp. The plebiscite was subject to large-scale propaganda and to the abrogation of the voting rights of