Hörauf, Franz Ritter von.

Hörauf, Franz Ritter von, born 16-07-1878 in Landau, Pfalz, the son of the barracks inspector Ferdinand Hörauf and his wife Elise, born Buhl. Hörauf married in 1921 with Carola Schwarzmaier. After the Abitur, which he acquired in 1896 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich,  Hörauf joined as a two-year volunteer the Army Service on 18-07-1896, age 21, as a Fahnenjunker in the 10^th Bavarian Infantry Regiment. From 01-03-1907 to 01-02-1898, he was commanded to the War School Munich and then promoted to Leutnant on 06-03-1898. From 01-10-1908 to 30-09-1911 Hörauf graduated from the Military Academy, which pronounced him the qualification for the General Staff. As a result, he was from 26-08-1912 in the staffs of the 6th Cavalry , the 6th Field Artillery Brigade and the 6th Division, under command of General Alexander Ferdinand Ludolf von Quast   , before he was transferred on 01-10-1912 in the central office of the General Staff. General Alexander Ferdinand Ludolf von Quast died 27-03-1939, aged 88,  in Potsdam, Brandenburg. There he was promoted to Hauptmann on 28-10-1912. From 01-04-1913 Hörauf returned to the War Academy and taught here until the closure of the Institute tactics.  With the beginning of the first war he was in the General Staff of the III Bavarian Army Corps. He ended the war in the Staff of the 1^st Bavarian Reserve Corps. In the late 1920s Hörauf joined the NSDAP  and the SA . In 1931 Hörauf was appointed head of SA schools and head of department I in senior management. In this role, he was a SA group leader of the Supreme SA leadership. There was Hörauf, who was a supporter of Gregor Strasser

 also the task of the chief of staff of SA Ernst Röhm on behalf of the party to monitor.

Gregor Strasser, (31-05-1892 – 30-06-1934) was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party. Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party’s left-wing faction, which brought them into conflict with the dominant faction led by Adolf Hitler, resulting in his murder in 1934. The brothers’ strand of the Nazi ideology is known as Strasserism. Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser 10-09-1897 – 27-08-1974) was a German politician and an early member of the Nazi Party. Otto Strasser, together with his brother Gregor Strasser, was a leading member of the party’s more radical wing, whose ideology became known as Strasserism, and broke from the party due to disputes with the dominant Hitlerite faction. He formed the Black Front, a group intended to split the Nazi Party and take it from the grasp of Hitler. During his exile and World War II, this group also functioned as a secret opposition group. Otto Strasser continued to advocate for his vision of Nazism until he died in Munich on 27-08-1974 (aged 76). Gregor, having achieved national power in January 1933, Hitler and the NSDAP began eliminating all forms of opposition in Germany. In what became known as the Night of the Long Knives, the entire SA leadership was purged, which took place from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Hitler, along with other top Nazis such as Hermann Göring and  Heinrich  Himmler,   targeted Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders who, along with some of Hitler’s political adversaries, were rounded up, arrested, and shot by members of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo. Among them was Strasser. Historian Richard J. Evans surmises that Strasser was most likely killed for having been allegedly offered a position by the predecessor conservative Weimar government, a tie which made him a potential political enemy, due to the personal enmity of Himmler and Göring, both of whom Strasser had been critical of during his role in the party’s leadership. Whether Strasser was killed on Hitler’s personal orders is not known. He was shot once in the main artery from behind in his cell but did not die immediately. On the orders of SS general Reinhard Heydrich, Strasser was left to bleed to death, which took almost an hour

As an old monarchist Hörauf also maintained relations with the former Crown Prince William ,  to whom he regularly sent internal information from the Brown House , such. For example, in December 1932, when he informed the Crown Prince about the financial collapse of the NSDAP, which was imminent at the time

Hörauf here between Ernst Röhm   and Hermann Goering , retired from the Service on 31-01-1928 and was placed to disposal of the Army on 26-08-1939. Appointed as Commander of Lodz to April 1941 and Commander of Litzmannstadt until 31-01-1943 and landed in the Führer Reserve (see Adolf Hitler) (did you know) on 31-03-1943.  He also was retired again, age 64.

Hörauf was still in NS Internment to 30-04-1948 and lived in Munich, where he at the age of 79 died, on 08-12-1957. He is buried with his wife Erna, born Clauss, who died age 97 on 1987, on the Ostfriedhof of Munich, and close by the graves of of Hitler’s WWI sergeant Max Amann   , Nazi doctor SS Gruppenführer, Karl Gebhardt, Generalmajor der Kavallerie, Rudolf von Gersdorff

     he wanted to blow himself together with Hitler, SS Gruppenführer, stayed in the Führerbunker till the end, Johan Rattenhuber, Nazi Banker Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s adjutant SS Obergruppenführer, Julius Schaub, SA leader,  August Schneidhuber victim  of the Night of the long Knives  , Hitler’s oldest secretary, Johanna Wolf, Flyer Ace, General der Flieger, Kommandeur ./N.J.G.1, Werner Streib, SS Brigrade Führer, in charge of the SS and Police in the defence section of Metz, Anton Dunckern and Hitler’s secretary, Christa Schroeder.