Hubert Klausner

Hubert Klausner (1 November 1892 – 12 February 1939) was an Austrian officer and Nazi politician. He served as Gauleiter of Reichsgau Kärnten and Landeshauptmann (premier) of Carinthia in from 1938-39.

Born in Raibl (today: Cave del Predil, Tarvisio) in the Carinthian Val Canale, the son of minor customs official, he attended the Gymnasium in Villach. Taking his Matura exams in 1912, he completed his military service as a Einjährig-Freiwilliger ("one-year volunteer") in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Thereafter he served in World War I; in the rank of a Lieutenant in Galicia, where he was seriously wounded in 1915, and reached the rank of Oberleutnant at the Italian Front. In 1916 he was transferred to the reserve, commanding a casualty assamblies in Klagenfurt and Trento.

When the war ended, Klausner from 1919 fought in the Volkswehr paramilitary forces in the armed conflicts against Yugoslav troops, which led to the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920. Afterwards he joined the Federal Army of the First Austrian Republic and was promoted to the rank of Captain (Hauptmann). Having initially joined the Greater German People's Party, he switched to the Austrian Nazi Party in 1922, which he again left in 1927, after the ill-fated Beerhall Putsch. In 1930 he was promoted to Major – the highest rank that he would reach in the Austrian Army before he had to leave for political reasons in 1933.

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