Franz Josef Huber

Who was Franz Josef Huber?

Franz Josef Huber was a SS general who rose to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei. He was a German police official under both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. Huber joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and worked closely with Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller. In 1938, Huber was posted to Vienna after the annexation of Austria where he was appointed chief of the State Police and Gestapo for Vienna, the "Lower Danube" and "Upper Danube" regions. He was also responsible for the deportations of Jews from the area. After the war ended, Huber never served any prison time and died in Munich in 1975.