Richard Steidle

Richard Steidle
Steidle (middle), 1930
Born(1881-09-20)20 September 1881
Died30 August 1940(1940-08-30) (aged 58)
Cause of deathGunshot wounds
CitizenshipAustrian
EducationDoctor of jurisprudence
Alma materUniversity of Innsbruck
OccupationLawyer
Known forLeader of the Heimwehr in Tyrol
TitleHeimwehr leader
Term1927-1930
SuccessorErnst Rüdiger Starhemberg
Political partyChristian Social Party

Richard Steidle (20 September 1881 – 30 August 1940) was an Austrian lawyer and the leader of the paramilitary Heimwehr in Tyrol. He was a leading representative of the pro-independence tendency on the far right of Austrian politics and as such was opposed to the Nazi Party which supported the incorporation of Austria into a Großdeutschland. Following the Anschluss, Steidle was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was killed in 1940.