Alfred Bonfert

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alfred Bonfert (born August 10, 1904 in Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania ; † August 21, 1993 in St. Ingbert , Germany ) was a German veterinarian and, as a Romanian-German politician , was President of the National Socialist German People's Party from February 10, 1935 to October 28, 1938 Romania (DVR).

Life

After graduating from high school in Hermannstadt ( Romanian Sibiu ) in 1923, Bonfert studied veterinary medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover until 1928 and obtained his doctorate in medicine. med. vet. Here he was a member of the Adler und Falken , a youth association with a völkisch character . After his studies he practiced as a veterinarian in Romania.

Since 1919 Bonfert was a member of the "Hermannstädter Wandervogel ". He was co-editor of the Bündische Jugend magazine “Die Kommenden”. In 1929, the existing Wandervogel clubs in Romania merged under Bonfert's leadership in the southeast German Wandervogel . In 1931 Bonfert introduced youth labor camps in Transylvania, which were influenced by the Nazis . He was a member of the renewal movement under Fritz Fabritius . As leader of the “self-help work teams”, Bonfert was a member of the delegation of the “self-help movement” received on January 25, 1933 by Bishop Viktor Glondys , which discussed the position of self-help in Christian preaching and the relationship between the “self-help teams” and the church fraternal and fraternal Sororities advised. In 1934 the Wandervogel Association was incorporated into the "Transylvanian-German Youth Association". Bonfert was the second to sign the declaration by leading National Socialists directed against Bishop Viktor Glondys on July 21, 1934, “To clarify the situation. A word to all German national comrades ”.

As a result of the electoral victories in the regional people's councils, Fritz Fabritius was elected chairman of the Romanian-German umbrella organization on June 29, 1935, which was renamed "German People's Community in Romania". The association received a inspired by Nazism People program , nor against, neither the Conservative Evangelical Church in Romania rebelled, but rather the radical faction of the "innovators", which is now under Waldemar Gust and Bonfert on February 10, 1935 (initially with with the approval of Fabritius) had founded the radical Nazi "German People's Party of Romania" (DVR). The radicals complained that the people's program did not correspond to the “real spirit of National Socialism”. The conflict between the national community and the DVR shaped the political discussion of the Romanian Germans until October 1938 . The "quarrel separated court neighbors and divided families, children fought in the street and shouted 'Fabritius should rule, Bonfert should die' or vice versa (depending on the attitude of the parents)"; Hall battles raged in the cities.

In October 1938, Bonfert took part as a representative of his party in the talks on the synchronization of Romanian Germans under the direction of Edit von Coler . As a result, his party was assimilated into the "ethnic group leadership", with Bonfert as deputy state chairman. Since the radical group around Bonfert continued the dispute even after the unification in 1939, the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi), the Foreign Office and Heinrich Himmler intervened in the conflict, since the leadership of the German Reich wanted full cooperation of the German minority in one Time for sensitive relations with Romania was needed. Fabritius excluded Bonfert from the leadership of the ethnic group in the spring of 1939 because of an alleged attempted coup with his followers. Bonfert, Gust and the regional youth leader Friedrich “Fritz” Cloos were removed from their offices and deported to the “Reich”.

During the Second World War , Bonfert was awarded "in the fighting in the east" as a member of the Wehrmacht with the star of Romania in the knightly degree with swords on the bravery ribbon and the medal in memory of the crusade against communism . As a member of the German Africa Corps , he took part in the fighting in North Africa . In 1943 he was taken prisoner by the English, from which he was released at the end of the war. He then practiced as a veterinarian in Schleswig-Holstein and Saarland . In Saarbrücken he was in charge of the "insemination center of the Saarland".

Alfred Bonferts son Wolfgang was from 1983 to 1989 National Chairman of the Homeland Association " Association of Transylvanian Saxons ".

Publications

  • Comparative studies on the homology of the intestinal parts in rodents with partial consideration of the arterial blood supply. Wagner, Weimar 1928
  • About the development and path of our wandering bird. In: Karl D. Paetel: Südostdeutscher Wandervogel, German youth hikers in Romania. Flarchheim (Thuringia) 1930, pp. 7-17.
  • Labor camp and voluntary labor service. In: Klingsor. Volume 11, 1932, pp. 421-429.
  • The labor camp in Meschendorf 17.-23. August 1931. In: Saxon youth at work. 1933, pp. 6-12.
  • The big labor camp in the summer of 1932, 7.-21. August. In: Saxon youth at work. 1933, pp. 14-27.
  • Labor service in general. The development of the labor service among Germans in Romania. In: State Office for Labor Service: German Youth at Work, reports from the labor camps of the German youth in Romania 1933. Kronstadt 1934, pp. 5-8.
  • Fight for work. Kronstadt 1936.
  • Weltanschauung fight in the Germans of Romania. In: Sachsenspiegel. August 7, 1939, pp. 21-24.
  • Necessary remarks on contributions and documents on contemporary history. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 2/1972, p. 133f.
  • Necessary remarks on the statement by Gustav Markus on my contribution in volume 2/1972, p. 133/136. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 3/1972, pp. 204f.
  • From the other point of view. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 4/1974, p. 292f.
  • The youth day in Agnetheln 1935. In: Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter. 1/1986, p. 69.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stefan Breuer , Ina Schmidt: Die Kommenden: a magazine of the Bündische Jugend (1926-1933). (= Edition Archive of the German Youth Movement. Volume 15). Wochenschau Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89974-529-0 , p. 316.
  2. ↑ a b c biografii.ro: Intreaba despre Alfred Bonfert , Biography Alfred Bonfert, in Romanian
  3. ^ A b c d Paul Milata : Between Hitler, Stalin and Antonescu: Romanian Germans in the Waffen SS. (= Studia Transylvanica. Volume 34). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-13806-6 .
  4. ↑ a b c Bonfert Alfred. In: Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa .
  5. ^ Georg Weber, Renate Weber: Zendersch: a Transylvanian community in transition. Delp, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7689-0222-6 , p. 265.
  6. ↑ Valdis O. Lumans: Himmler's Auxiliaries: The people of German Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933-1945. University of North Carolina Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8078-6311-4 , p. 111. (English)
  7. ↑ Johann Böhm : Techniques of manipulation - tehnici de manipulare (opinion) . In: Half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics . 1st February 2013.
  8. ^ Proceedings. Volume 4: Contributors International Congress of Physiology and Pathology of Animal Reproduction and of Artificial Insemination, International Congress on Animal Reproduction. (books.google.ro)
  9. ↑ Lutz Connert: blaster or a bridge builder? The Landsmannschaft of the Transylvanian Saxons and their chairmen (I.). In: New way . April 19, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Bonfert, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-German President of the German People's Party of Romania (DVR) and veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Kingdom of Romania
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1993
Place of death St. Ingbert , Germany