Given the question: Facts: - death place: volhynia - title: oberstleutnant in the sturmabteilung - birth name: josef leopold - death cause: killed in battle - citizenship: austrian , german -lrb- after 1938 -rrb- - party: nazi party - death date: 24 june 1941 - birth date: 18 february 1889 - name: josef leopold - image size: 220px - birth place: langenlois Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of josef leopold .
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josef leopold -lrb- born 18 february 1889 in langenlois - died 24 june 1941 in volhynia -rrb- was a leading member of the nazi party in austria .he was the '' landesleiter '' of the party from 1935 to 1938 and the head of the sturmabteilung in austria .he belonged to the pro-independence tendency within austrian nazism and insisted that adolf hitler was only a spiritual leader rather than a future austrian leader .