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(Documents) Der Reichsstatthalter in Wien Baldur von Schirach – Verabschiedung des SS-Gruppenführers Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1938. Added an unused piece of writing paper of Reichsleiter Baldur von Schirach. Two documents in total.
Named to Hofrat Rudolf Koppensteiner and wife.
Der Reichsstatthalter in Wien und frau von Schirach bitten Hofrat Rudolf Koppensteiner w. Frau, anlässlich der Veranbschiedung des SS-Gruppenführers Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner zu einem Empfang am Mittwoch, dem 27. Januar 1943, um 20 Uhr in den Zeremoniensaal der Burg zu Wien. [The Reich Governor in Vienna and Frau von Schirach request that Court Councillor Rudolf Koppensteiner and his wife visit the reception on the occasion of the farewell of SS-Gruppenführer Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner on Wednesday, January 27, 1943, at 8 p.m. in the Ceremonial Hall of the Vienna Hofburg].
Background: in jaunary 1943 Baldur von Schirach was the appointedReichsstatthalter in Vienna.
Following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (Anschluss), SS-Gruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner became State Secretary for Security Affairs in the government of Arthur Seyss-Inquart in August 1938. In September of that same year, he was appointed Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Donau by SS Leader Heinrich Himmler. In this position, he was in charge of the entire SS of the Austrian part of the German Reich. Kaltenbrunner felt inferior to Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the domestic security service of Nazi Germany. Components of the RSHA included the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). The SD and the Gestapo were guilty of torture and murder on a large scale, particularly of Jews, dissidents, and potential enemies of the Third Reich. After a successful assassination attempt on Heydrich was carried out in Prague on May 27, 1942, Kaltenbrunner was appointed as the new head of the RSHA on January 30, 1943. Due to this appointment he had to leave Vienna and focus on his new job as chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). For this an event was held, for which the here for sale invitation card was issued to Hofrat Rudolf Koppensteiner.
This is as such a rare historical document of historical importance.
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Hofrat Rudolf Koppensteiner (1892–1980) was an Austrian historian, genealogist, and author. He was known in Vienna as “Burghauptmann,” serving as the head of administration for the Vienna Hofburg palace complex. In 1937, he published the infamous Ahnentafel des Führers Adolf Hitler (The Führer’s Ancestry Table). The frequent association with the year 1943 stems specifically from the genealogical work and official reports he submitted that year to the German Reich Ministry of the Interior regarding Adolf Hitler’s family history.
