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WOODEN HEAD SCULPTURE OF GAULEITER KLAUSNER
BEAUTIFUL WOODEN HEAD SCULPTURE OF GAULEITER KLAUSNER.
This is a superb and huge !! ( Twice life size) wooden bust sculpture of Gaulieter Klausner. This bust was made by the known Austrian Artist Sepp Dobner ( 1898-1972 ). Dobner is well known as an artist in wood and stone in the Nazi period and was exhibited at the House of Art in Munich.

The Bust is superb and weighs in at 18 Kilos !! There is a small split on the left side of the face through war damage !! but does not affect it. It stood in the Office of Gauleter Rainer until wars end - The bust was then seized after the War by the Austrian Authorities and was only later returned to Frau Klausner - the buyer will receive original letters deatiling this from the State Officials Office.

Hubert Klausner was born on November 1st 1892 in Raibl/Kanaltal and died on February 12th 1939 in Vienna. Klausner was also Landeshauptmann (premier) of Carinthia. Hubert Klausner went to Gymnasium and enlisted in the army as a one-year volunteer. During the First World War he became seriously wounded in 1915 and was promoted to first lieutenant. After the war he served between 1919 and 1920 in the Volkswehr and moved to the Austrian Federal Army where he was promoted to Major in 1930. He left the army in 1933 because of poor health. Klausner joined the Nazi party already in 1922, terminated his membership in 1927 to join again in 1931 to be appointed NSDAP Gauleiter in January 1933. He became leader of the illegal Nazi party in Carinthia. He later joined the SS with the rank of SS-Oberführer rising to Brigadefuhrer. Klausner was imprisoned for a couple of months in 1936 for political reasons. Klausners career was boosted after the annexation of Austria by Germany. While he still remained in the position of Gauleiter of Carinthia, he became Minister for Political Decision Making under the National Socialist government of Arthur Seyß-Inquart in 1938 and in May of the same year he became the deputy of Reichskommissar Josef Bürckel's and the Austrian interior minister. Hubert Klausner died suddenly on February 12th 1939 of a stroke. During his state funeral in Klagenfurt, Adolf Hitler was present.

This is a LARGE head, and well detailed! Its about three feet tall, and heavy.

Code: 1412

Price: $1200.00