Deputy Chief of sub-offices IVA and IVB (Enemies of the Regime & Activities of the Sects and Churches) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). In December 1944, he was appointed the successor of Franz Josef Huber as chief of the SiPo, Gestapo and SD in Vienna. In this capacity, he was responsible for the court-martial and subsequent execution of resistance fighters Major Karl Biedermann, Captain Alfred Huth and First Lieutenant Rudolf Raschke, who had tried to save Vienna from destruction by handing the city over to the Allies. After Vienna was captured by the Soviets, Mildner returned to Linz where he was the deputy of Franz Josef Huber. In May 1945, he escaped to the west and was arrested by U.S. Army soldiers and testified at the Nuremberg Trials. The American army detained Mildner and "saved him from landing in the hands of war crimes investigators, because his knowledge of communist subversion was considered useful." Nuremberg trials At Nuremberg he testified with regards to RSHA chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Mildner declared that while he was Gestapo leader at Katowice he frequently sent prisoners to Auschwitz for imprisonment or execution. He visited Auschwitz on several occasions and was shown the extermination installations. Mildner stated that he had tried to prevent the Jewish persecution in Denmark, but was overruled by Himmler. He was released in 1949 and disappeared to escape prosecution. According to A declassified CIA Report, Mildner was allowed to escape to South America Adolf Eichmann claimed to have met Mildner in Argentina in 1958, but this claim has not been verified. The date and place of his death is unknown. See also List of people who disappeared Bibliography Goldensohn, Leon N., and Gellately, Robert (ed.): The Nuremberg Interviews, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004 References 1902 births 1950s missing person cases 20th-century Freikorps personnel Auschwitz concentration camp personnel Austrian Nazi lawyers Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I German prisoners of war in World War II held by the United States Gestapo personnel Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Year of death unknown Naturalized citizens of Germany People from Austrian Silesia People from Bruntál District Reich Security Main Office personnel SS-Standartenführer University of Innsbruck alumni