Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld (18 May 1898 in Vienna â€" 10 May 1977 in
Hamburg) was an Austrian Nazi leader. An engineer by occupation, he
was associated with the pro-Nazi Germany wing of Austrian
Nazism.Frauenfeld was the son of a privy councillor and during the
First World War he served on the Italian front as an Officer Candidate
in the rank of a sergeant with the pay grade of a lance corporal with
the k.u.k. Fliegerkompanie Nr. 48. Working variously as a mason and a
bank clerk, Frauenfeld was initially a member of the Christian Social
Party.However Frauenfeld first came to prominence in the politics of
Vienna, initially in Hermann Hiltl's movement, before becoming a
highly influential figure amongst the city's Nazis during the late
1920s. He seems to have joined the Austrian Nazi Party in August 1929
and very quickly took on the role of bezirksleiter for his district of
Vienna. He was confirmed by Adolf Hitler as Nazi Gauleiter in Vienna
in 1930. In this role he became hugely active, organising over 1000
propaganda meetings in three years and founding a party newspaper Der
Kampfruf with his own money in 1930, before ultimately running four
Nazi dailies and four weeklies. Under his command the Nazis became an
important force in Vienna, winning almost ten times as many votes in
the 1932 elections as they did in 1930. From a few hundred members
when he took over, Frauenfeld had expanded the Viennese party to
40,000 members by 1934. Frauenfeld's success saw him considered for
the post of leader of the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931, although
ultimately Theodor Habicht was chosen for the role by Gregor Strasser
on Hitler's advice. Despite his success as an organiser Frauenfeld
also had a reputation for a domineering and impolite temperament,
something which ensured a frosty relationship with other leading
Austrian Nazis Josef Leopold and Alfred Proksch.Frauenfeld became
associated with the terrorist activities of the Nazis within Austria
and in June 1933 he was held at Wöllersdorf internment camp. He was
also closely involved with Habicht in the abortive putsch of 1934.
Engelbert Dollfuss had actually offered Frauenfeld a cabinet post in
May 1934 in an attempt to avoid rebellion but he refused the offer and
went to Germany to become involved in the plot. He would remain in
Germany after the plot failed and in 1936 was appointed to the
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