![]() He would ultimately reach the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain). After Austria's Anschluss Stangl was assigned to the Schutzpolizei (which was taken over by the Gestapo) in Linz, where he was posted to the Jewish Bureau (German language: Judenreferat). In 1935, Stangl was accepted into the Kriminalpolizei as detective in the Austrian town of Wels. It was later discovered that Stangl had Nazi Party number 6,370,447 and SS number 296,569. Records suggest that Stangl contributed to a Nazi aid fund at the time but he said that he was misled as to the purpose of the fund. ![]() He later denied that he had been a Nazi in 1931, claiming that he enrolled as member of the party only to avoid arrest after the Germans had seized power in the Anschluss of Austria into Nazi Germany in May 1938. Stangl became a member of the NSDAP in 1931, which was illegal for an Austrian police officer at the time. He was accepted in early 1931 and trained for two years at the federal police academy in Linz. Stangl later suggested that he liked the security and cleanliness that the police uniforms represented to him. He moved to Innsbruck in 1930 and applied for an appointment in the Austrian federal police. Concerned that this trade offered few opportunities for advancement – and having observed the poor health of his co-workers – Stangl sought a new career. In his teens he secured an apprenticeship as a weaver, qualifying as a master weaver in 1927. Stangl completed his public schooling in 1923. To help support his family Franz learned to play the zither and earned money giving zither lessons. Stangl claimed that his father died of malnutrition in 1916. He was so deeply frightened of him that Stangl developed a hatred for his Habsburg Dragoons uniform. The son of a nightwatchman, his relationship with his father was emotionally distressing. Meanwhile, the Foos are currently on the road in Europe, and there's nine days to go until their mysterious countdown clock runs out.Stangl was born on 26 March 1908 in Altmünster, located in the Salzkammergut region of Austria. Learning to Fly is available to purchase here. I guess I never got over Charlie."īelow, watch the video for "My Hero," which featured Stahl (even though he wasn't on the recording). He's also been playing with another reunited hardcore band, DYS.Īll in all, this reminds us a bit of a quote from High Fidelity: "Some people never got over Vietnam or the night their band opened for Nirvana. And it's not as if Stahl doesn't have anything else going on: he's a member of the veteran hardcore band Scream (a band that used to feature Grohl), and they have reunited in recent years. It's a little sad to learn that Stahl is still looking for closure 16 years later, given that he was only in the band for two years and never played on an album. Stahl told Wall, "There's never been any sort of closure on any of it. ![]() This revelation comes from author Mick Wall and his new Foos book Learning to Fly. But while his former bandmates have clearly long since moved on, Stahl has evidently still not fully got over being kicked out back in 1999. Do you remember Franz Stahl? He was the guitarist for the Foo Fighters for a couple of years back in the late '90s before being fired via a conference call.
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