| Felix Rinner | |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Sport: | Sprinting |
| Event: | 200 metres |
| Birth Date: | 6 January 1911 |
Felix Rinner (6 January 1911 - 2 April 1976) was an Austrian sprinter and an officer of the Austrian SS.
He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1] Rinner was a ten time national champion across four different sprint events in the 1930s.[2]
When Austria was annexed by Germany, on March 11, 1938, he led a command of 40 armed SS men who forced their way in and occupied the Austrian Federal Chancellery.[3] [4] [5]
In 1941 Rinner was a member of the Austrian SS (Obersturmbannführer) to the SS Panzergrenadier Division “Viking”, was Adjutant to SS leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946, executed by hanging in Berlin for being a major perpetrator of the Holocaust), the commander of the entire Austrian SS, and was involved in the organization of the Gestapo in Austria.[6] [7] From 1945 to 1947 Rinner was interned by the Americans.[6]