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Obergeneralarbeitsführer Victor Band or Viktor Band (* December 4th, 1897 in St. Leonhard - † October 31st, 1973 in Wien) was a Austrian-German Politician in the NSDAP during World War II.

Youth and Education
Band was the son of Inspector General of the Austrian Federal Railways. He attended from 1904 to 1916 the primary school, the lower secondary school and the infantry cadet school in Vienna Breitensee. From 1916 he was a cadet participants of the First World War. First, the Austro-Hungarian Infantry Regiment. 34, he was employed at the front in Russia and Italy, while wounded several times. After the armistice is band joined the "German-Austrian people's militia battalion XXII", a far-right paramilitary force, from which he voluntarily resigned in late 1919 as a first lieutenant.

After studying electrical engineering at the Technical University in Vienna in 1927 band worked as an engineer in Austria, the United States and the Soviet Union. In the latter he was in the phone factory Lenin in Gorky worked. From 1919 belonged, ten years of SDAP on. He was also a member of the Social Democratic Federation of industry employees.

Career in the Nazi movement
From 1929, the band turned to NSDAP. Claims to be, he joined the Nazi Party, as the party was still illegal in Austria, September 1, 1932.. Nevertheless, he received in 1933 a very high membership number (6199262), that has not changed despite his claims to the kingdom of the NSDAP.

1933 band was working volunteers in Nazi voluntary labor service of the SA. Starting in 1933, was a member of the band as lead country in a leading position in the National Socialist "Austrian labor service" (OAD) active before it was dissolved in 1934 by the Austrian government. He was also a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he advanced rapidly. In April 1934, he became the leader of the Vienna SA.

After the failed coup of the Austrian National Socialists band was arrested as the leader of the Vienna SA in July 1934 and the Vienna Military Court on 25 May 1935 for high treason, sentenced to life hard labor. Evidence suggesting that it plans for the attack on the Austrian Federal Chancellery during the July coup designed in which Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated. The punishment he served up to in the course of the Berchtesgaden agreement adopted amnesty February 1938th

After the " Anschluss "to the German Reich in March 1938 tape was released. In SA he reached his highest rank at that time with promotion to brigadier with effect from 12 March 1938. In the Reichstag elections of 10 April 1938 band also received a mandate for the Nazi Reichstag, which he held until the end of the Nazi rule belonged. In 1940 he was awarded the " Blood Order Award "of the Nazi Party.

From 1939 to 1945 the band was Arbeitsgauführer Arbeitsgaus XXXV in Vienna. He initially had the rank of colonel labor leader in the Reich Labor Service, later he was up to the commanding general labor leaders promoted. In 1944 he was alderman of the City of Vienna.

After the war band was in the camp Glasbach interned in Salzburg. As of June 27, 1947, he was temporarily detained in the prison of the District Court I in Vienna. Band died in October 1973 in Vienna.