Franz Langoth was an Austrian nationalist politician who later became a leading figure in the country's Nazi movement. He was a judge on the People's Court, an SS-Brigadeführer and the mayor of Linz.

The Heimwehr or Heimatschutz was a nationalist, initially paramilitary, group that operated in the First Austrian Republic from 1920 to 1936. It was similar in methods, organization, and ideology to t