Facts:   - death place: volhynia    - title: oberstleutnant in the sturmabteilung    - birth name: josef leopold    - death cause: killed in battle    - citizenship: austrian , german -lrb- after 1938 -rrb-    - party: nazi party    - death date: 24 june 1941      - birth date: 18 february 1889    - name: josef leopold    - image size: 220px    - birth place: langenlois   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of josef leopold .
josef leopold -lrb- born 18 february 1889 in langenlois - died 24 june 1941 in volhynia -rrb- was a leading member of the nazi party in austria .he was the `` landesleiter '' of the party from 1935 to 1938 and the head of the sturmabteilung in austria .he belonged to the pro-independence tendency within austrian nazism and insisted that adolf hitler was only a spiritual leader rather than a future austrian leader .