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Felix Landau was born on 21 May, 1910 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, is a Felix Landau was SS Hauptscharführer. Discover Felix Landau's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation SS Hauptscharführer
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May 1910
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 4 April, 1983
Died Place Vienna, Austria
Nationality Hungary

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1910

Felix Landau (May 21, 1910 – April 4, 1983) was an SS Hauptscharführer, a member of an Einsatzkommando during World War II, based first in Lwów, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine), and later in Drohobycz.

Landau was a participant in numerous mass shooting of Galician Jews.

1911

Born as the illegitimate child of Paul Stipkowich and Maria Maier, Felix Richard Landau received the surname of his Jewish stepfather after his mother had married Jakob Landau in 1911.

1925

In 1925, Landau joined National Socialist Youth and was expelled from apprentice boarding school (run by a Catholic lay order) for active recruitment activities.

1930

In 1930 he joined Austrian Bundesheer (2nd Dragoner Squadron).

1931

In March 1931 he joined NSDAP and in May became a political leader of a local Nazi army district.

1933

In June 1933 was expelled from Bundesheer for Nazi activities.

From June 1933 to April 1934, Landau was a member of Sturmabteilung, after that in SS.

During the July Putsch, Landau was a member of the group which stormed the Federal Chancellery, holding several staff members under guard with a submachine gun.

After the coup's failure, Landau was arrested and sent to Wöllersdorf detention camp.

1937

Landau was conditionally released under an amnesty on February 17, 1937.

The conditions of his release were stringent, requiring him to report to the authorities on a daily basis, not go outside after 8:00 PM, not use a telephone or any kind of transportation.

He was also not allowed to hold a job and was prohibited from receiving unemployment benefits.

As a result, Landau fled to Germany in April 1937.

He became a naturalized German citizen, got married, and worked as a police assistant in the Gestapo.

1940

In 1940, Landau transferred to KdS/SD in Radom governed by the General Government where he met typist Gertrude, to whom he later addressed his letters.

1941

In June 1941, Felix Landau volunteered for Einsatzkommando service.

He began his diary in July 1941, interspersing sentimental letters to his fiancée with detailed records of his participation in actions related to the Holocaust.

He describes "shooting exercises" and "wild actions", shooting sprees wherein he and his men would pick off random Jews who worked nearby or passed by on the street.

At the end of 1941, he lived with Gertrude in an aristocratic villa.

1942

He is known for his daily diary and for temporarily sparing the life of the Jewish/Polish artist Bruno Schulz in 1942.

Landau liked Schulz's art and supplied him with protection and extra food.

In return, he ordered the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom, depicting scenes from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

In one such event in November 1942, Landau killed the personal dentist of a fellow officer, Karl Günther.

In revenge, Günther caught up with Bruno Schulz, then under the protection of Landau, and shot him twice in the head.

According to Schulz's friend Izydor Friedman, who witnessed the death, this happened at the corner of Czacki and Mickiewicz Streets.

Later, Günther told Landau: "You killed my Jew - I killed yours."

He divorced his first wife in 1942 and married Gertrude in 1943 (divorced in 1946).

1943

Until May 1943, Landau was in charge of organizing Jewish labor.

1946

In 1946, a former worker recognized him in Linz.

1947

Landau was arrested by the Americans but escaped from Glasenbach prison camp in August 1947.

Under the name of Rudolf Jaschke, he started an interior decorating company in Bavaria.

1958

In August 1958, Landau was arrested and accused of participating in massacres.

1962

In 1962, he was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Stuttgart Assize Court.

1973

Landau was released from prison in 1973, and died in 1983.

He was buried in the Hernalser Cemetery in Vienna, Austria.

2015

Landau also was the SS officer assigned to watch over Maria Altmann, the subject of the 2015 film Woman in Gold.