August Eigruber 1907 – 1947

Biography

August Eigruber was born on April 16, 1907, in Steyr, Austria, during a time of significant change for his nation. He would come of age during the interwar period and go on to hold positions of considerable political authority in Austria during the Second World War. As Gauleiter of Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, he wielded substantial administrative power over the region during Nazi rule.

Eigruber’s life came to an end on May 28, 1947, when he was executed by hanging at Landsberg Prison in Bavaria. His death marked the conclusion of proceedings related to his wartime activities and positions of authority. The circumstances of his imprisonment and execution reflected the broader postwar accounting for those who had held leadership roles under the Nazi regime.

Today, Eigruber is remembered as a figure of Austria’s complex twentieth-century history, a period marked by tremendous upheaval and moral reckoning. His life and death represent a chapter in the historical record of how individuals navigated, and bore responsibility for, the events of that transformative era.