August Meyszner
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SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei August Meyszner |
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August Meyszner wearing the rank
of SS-Oberführer in 1938 |
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| Birth name | August Edler von Meyszner |
| Born |
3 August 1886 Graz, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 24 January 1947 (aged 60) Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Allegiance |
 Austria-Hungary Austria Germany
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| Service/branch |
Austrian Gendarmerie Ordnungspolizei Allgemeine SS |
| Years of service | 1906–1945 |
| Rank | SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei |
| Commands held | Higher SS and Police Leader, German-occupied territory of Serbia (1942–44) |
| Awards |
Iron Cross 1st Class War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords |
| Spouse(s) | Pia (née Gostischa) |
August Edler von Meyszner (3 August 1886 – 24 January 1947) was an Austrian gendarmerie officer, right-wing politician, and senior Ordnungspolizei (order police) officer who held the post of Higher SS and Police Leader in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from January 1942 to March 1944, during World War II. He has been described as one of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's most brutal subordinates.
Meyszner began his career as an officer in the Gendarmerie, served on the Italian Front during World War I and reached the rank of Major der Polizei by 1921. He joined the Austrian Nazi Party in September 1925 and became a right-wing parliamentary deputy and provincial minister in the Austrian province of Styria in 1930. Due to his involvement with the Nazis, Meyszner was forcibly retired in 1933 and arrested in February 1934, but released after three months at the Wöllersdorf concentration camp. That July, he was rearrested following an attempted coup, but escaped police custody and fled to Nazi Germany, where he joined the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) and then the Allgemeine SS. After police postings in Austria, Germany and occupied Norway, Himmler appointed Meyszner as Higher SS and Police Leader in Serbia in early 1942. He was one of few Orpo officers to be appointed to such a role.
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