Franz Josef Huber Franz Josef Huber ( 22 January 1902 – 30 January 1975 ) was a SS general ( SS number : 107 , 099 ) 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 ( SiPo ) and Gestapo for Vienna , the " Lower Danube " and " Upper Danube " regions . He also was 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 . Early life . Huber was born on 22 January 1902 in Munich . He attended school through " seven classes of gymnasium " . In his last year of school , Huber served as a " Zeitfreiwilligen " ( timed volunteer ) which were reserve units that could be mobilized on short notice by the army . In mid - 1922 he entered the Munich police service and by 1923 was a " auxiliary assistant " . Huber was promoted to " office assistant " and by 1926 joined the political police department . In January 1928 , Huber was made a " police assistant " and later a police inspector . During the years of the Weimar Republic he worked with Heinrich Müller , then chief of the political department of the Munich police . Huber was involved in the suppression of the Nazi Party , communist , and other political groups . Nazi career . In 1933 , " Reichsführer - SS " Heinrich Himmler became chief of the Munich Police and Reinhard Heydrich was commander of Department IV , the political police . Heydrich did not dismiss Huber , Müller or Josef Albert Meisinger as he perceived correctly that these men were thorough professionals and Heydrich needed such men in the national police service . Heydrich was appointed chief of the Gestapo on 22 April 1934 . Immediately thereafter , Heydrich transferred to the Berlin office of the Gestapo , and took with him colleagues : Müller , Meisinger and Huber , referred to as the " Bajuwaren - Brigade " ( Bavarian Brigade ) . Thereafter , in 1937 Huber joined the Nazi Party as member number : 4 , 583 , 151 and also joined the SS with number 107 , 099 . Bloomberg - Fritsch affair . In early 1938 Adolf Hitler , Hermann Göring and Himmler wanted to dispose of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg , a conservative member of the army ' s high command and Hitler ' s Minister of War . Meisinger ' s investigation revealed that Blomberg ' s wife , Erna Gruhn had been a prostitute with a police record and once posed for pornographic photos . Blomberg was forced to resign . In 1936 Meisinger uncovered allegations of homosexuality made against the Commander - in - Chief of the Army Colonel General Werner von Fritsch . A file was prepared and Heydrich passed the information on to Hitler . Hitler choose to dismiss the allegations and ordered Heydrich to destroy the file . However , he did not do so . In late January 1938 , Göring wanted to dispose von Fritsch as he did not want Fritsch to become the successor to Blomberg and thus his superior . Heydrich resurrected the old file on Fritsch . Meisinger at the time was in charge of " Bekämpfung der Homosexualität und der Abtreibung " ( " Campaign against Homosexuality and Abortion " ) Huber and Meisinger led the investigation against Fritsch . At one point Huber and Meisinger interrogated Otto Schmidt , a notorious criminal whose Berlin gang had specialized in blackmail of homosexuals . Schmidt identified Fritsch as a homosexual . Heydrich resubmitted the updated von Fritsch file to Hitler . It was eventually determined that von Fritsch had been confused with a " Rittmeister " von Frisch . The accusations against Fritsch broke down and Schmidt ' s record was revealed . Hitler , in the end , had Fritsch transferred but there was a fallout from the investigation . Meisinger ’ s career in the Gestapo was almost terminated and Huber was transferred to Vienna in 1938 . Huber did remain good friends with Heinrich Müller who was appointed Gestapo chief on 27 September 1939 . The Elser investigation . Johann Georg Elser , a German craftsman from Königsbronn , chose the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in 1939 , to kill Hitler with a bomb during his speech inside the " Bürgerbräukeller " . Elser hollowed out the pillar behind the speaker ' s rostrum , and placed the bomb inside it . On 8 November 1939 , the bomb exploded at 21 : 20 , but Hitler had already left the room thirteen minutes earlier . Elser was arrested when he tried to cross into Switzerland . Elser was transferred to Munich , where he was interrogated by the Gestapo . After his confession to the crime , Elser was taken to the Berlin headquarters of the Gestapo where he was tortured . Himmler wanted an in - depth investigation of the matter and was unconvinced Elser acted alone . Huber was put in charge of the investigation and reported on it to Müller . Himmler was convinced two known British SIS agents were involved in the attempt to assassinate Hitler at the " Bürgerbräukeller " . British SIS agents , Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Henry Stevens were captured in what became known as the Venlo Incident . However , Huber ' s investigation found that neither SIS agent was involved . Vienna . In March 1938 , after the annexation of Austria into the German Reich , Huber was appointed head of the State Police . This appointment made him chief of the SiPo , Gestapo and SD for Vienna , the " Lower Danube " , and " Upper Danube " regions . He worked out of the Hotel Metropole which was transformed into the Gestapo headquarters . Huber had a staff of 900 , of which 80 % were from the Austrian police . It was the largest Gestapo office outside of Berlin . It is estimated that 50 , 000 people were interrogated and tortured there . Huber was also the formal chief of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna , and although the de facto leaders were Adolf Eichmann and later Alois Brunner , was nevertheless responsible for the mass deportations of Jews . In addition , Huber was political adviser to the Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach and his representative as Defense of the Reich Commissioner for the Military District XVII . As a border inspector of the military districts XVII and XVIII , he was responsible for controlling the borders with Slovakia , with Hungary , Yugoslavia , Italy and Switzerland . In late autumn 1944 , Huber was promoted by Ernst Kaltenbrunner to be the Commander of the SiPo and SD in the Military District XVII . In December 1944 , Rudolf Mildner was appointed his successor as chief of the SiPo , Gestapo and SD in Vienna . Post - war . By war ' s end Huber was taken prisoner , but after a trial in 1949 , did not serve any time in prison . He went on to work as a bookkeeper in a Munich office equipment company until his retirement . He died in Munich on 30 January 1975 .