Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna

Adolf Eichmann, who had been sent from Berlin as the head of the Agency, and his associate Alois Brunner, set the emigration quotas, the fulfillment of which was delegated by the Nazi Party to the Israelite Community of Vienna.

In the summer of 1938, Löwenherz and co-workers of the Jewish Community of Vienna appealed to Eichmann to simplify the bureaucratic preliminary procedures for those wishing to emigrate.

The Reichskommissar responsible for Nazi Austria, Josef Bürckel, subsequently established the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna on 20 August 1938, formally under the leadership of Walter Stahlecker, but in reality led by Eichmann.

[2] Huber delegated most of his duties to his deputy Karl Ebner, who became known as the “gray eminence” [3] of the Vienna Gestapo in light of his nearly unrestricted police powers.

Alois Brunner, although officially named as the leader of the Central Agency in Vienna in January 1941, was already the de facto chief after Eichmann left in 1939.

[14] The postwar biographies of the personnel of the Central Agency of Vienna are very diverse: some were brought to justice, with punishments ranging from relatively mild prison sentences (Ernst Girzick, Richard Hartenberger, Franz Novak, Alfred Slawik, Franz Stuschka, Josef Weiszl) to death sentences for Anton Brunner, Adolf Eichmann and Karl Rahm.

[16] Rudolph told the press that this discovery consisted of an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 dossiers, making up nearly 100,000 single documents from Eichmann’s Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.

In addition, some personal effects of Eichmann and a manhunt proclamation from the Society of Persecuted of the Nazi Regime were found.”[20]The supposed main archives of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, whose archive signature location Rudolph attempted fruitlessly in the year 2000 to sell to Vienna historians for 15,600 marks (just over 8,000 US dollars at the time),[21] consisted in fact of just 20 dossiers.

"[22] The main archives of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna were probably destroyed, along with other material from the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), in Ghetto Theresienstadt near the end of the war.

The nearly complete records of the Israelite Community of Vienna were transferred after the war to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem.