Willi Brandner

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Willi Brandner

Willi Brandner , (born August 12, 1909 in Schönbach near Eger , † December 29, 1944 in Oroslavje ) was a Sudeten German SS brigade leader and major general of the police, politician and police area leader .

Life

Brandner completed an apprenticeship as a violin maker after completing his school career . After completing this training, he passed the journeyman's examination and finally the master’s examination. From October 1931 to January 1933 he served in the Czechoslovak Army . Brandner was trained as a gymnastics teacher by Konrad Henlein and directed the Sudeten German gymnastics school in Asch from 1933 to 1938 . He also became team leader of the volkisch gymnastics movement of the Sudeten Germans and in 1938 Gauführer Sudetenland in the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL). After conflicts with the increasingly competitive sports-oriented SS leadership, he gave up the office to volunteer for military service. Until September 1938 Brandner was in command of a voluntary Sudeten German militia, the Voluntary German Protection Service of the Sudeten German Party (SdP). From mid-September 1938 until the implementation of the Munich Agreement in early October 1938, he belonged to the Bayreuth- based group Bayrische Ostmark of the Sudeten German Freikorps . The predominantly made up of refugees Sudeten Free Corps was organized by the SA manages and provoked the border incidents: Czech customs posts, patrols and military facilities were attacked; about 150 people were killed.

After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, Brandner became a member of the Reichstag for the Sudeten German territories. He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 6,644,578) and SS (membership number 310.310) in autumn 1938. From autumn 1938 to January 1941 he was leader of SS-Section XXXVII Reichenberg , then led SS-Section II ( Chemnitz ) until April 1942 and was then a member of the staff in the upper section "Elbe" until July 1943.

From August 1940 Brandner was a member of the Waffen SS , first as a battalion adjutant in the SS Totenkopfdivision until the end of January 1941, then as a reserve officer with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler until November 1941 and finally with the replacement battalion "Germany" stationed in Prague until the beginning October 1942. Brandner was seriously wounded during his time with the Waffen SS; it was used in Greece and in the war against the Soviet Union .

From October 1942 Brandner was employed for training with the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) "Russland-Süd" Hans-Adolf Prützmann . In February 1943 he was given leave of absence for four months for health reasons. From July 1943 to December 1944 he was police area leader in Agram and at the same time deputy of the HSSPF Croatia Konstantin Kammerhofer . On December 28, 1944, Brandner was seriously wounded by a shot in the head during a partisan attack during an inspection tour in Oroslavje near Agram and died the following day.

Awards

Brandner's SS and police ranks
date rank
October 1938 SS-Oberführer
August 1940 SS-Untersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
November 1941 SS-Obersturmführer of the Reserve (Waffen-SS)
October 1942 Police Colonel
July 1943 SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police

literature

  • Andreas Schulz / Günter Wegmann: Germany's Generals and Admirals Part V, Die Generale der Waffen-SS and the Police 1933-1945 , Volume 1, (p. 141 ff.), Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2003, ISBN 3-7648-2373 -9 .
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 59 f .
  • Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2013, p. 169 f. (At the same time: Potsdam, University, dissertation, 2012 under the title: Bahro, Berno: In the sign of the double victory rune - on the organization, function and meaning of SS sport).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Willi Brandner in the database of the members of the Reichstag
  2. ^ Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2013, p. 268.
  3. ↑ Werner Röhr: The "Fall Grün" and the Sudeten German Freikorps . 2007, in: Hans Henning Hahn (Ed.): Hundred Years of Sudeten German History - A Völkische Movement in Three States , Verlag Peter Lang Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna, 2007, ISBN 978 -3-631-55372-5 , p. 251 f.
  4. ↑ Martin Broszat : The Sudeten German Freikorps. (PDF, 5.1 MB) In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 1/1961 (9), pp. 30–49; Long, hand ; Marian Zgorniak: Europa am Abgrund - 1938 , LIT Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2002, p. 166.
  5. ↑ Lilla, extras , p. 60.
personal data
SURNAME Brandner, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), SS-Brigadführer, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönbach near Eger
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1944
Place of death Oroslavje