Anton Franzen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anton Franzen

Anton Leonhard Franzen (born April 9, 1896 in Schleswig ; † May 16, 1968 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer and politician of the NSDAP . On October 1, 1930, he became the first NSDAP state minister in the Free State of Braunschweig .

life and work

Franzen attended the cathedral school in Schleswig . During the First World War he served as a volunteer and was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve and company commander. After he was seriously wounded in the war, he studied law in Kiel , Hamburg and Berlin. He passed the legal state exams in 1921 and 1924 and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. He worked as general counsel of a trading company before 1926 local and district judges and 1,928 county magistrate was. In 1928 Franzen joined the Schleswig-Holstein NSDAP in Kiel, where he was elected to the Reichstag on September 14, 1930, and Minister of the Free State of Braunschweiger on October 1, 1930.

Braunschweig State Minister

Franzen in party uniform next to Hitler.

In the state elections in the Free State of Braunschweig on September 14, 1930, the NSDAP received 22.2 percent of the vote (after 3.7 percent in the election on November 27, 1927). The SPD received 40.99% (after 46.2%); the left no longer had a majority in the state parliament . The DVP refused to form a grand coalition.

The NSDAP politician Ernst Zörner (* 1895) was elected President of the State Parliament on September 30, 1930, and a right-wing coalition government was formed. The civil unity list consisted of DNVP , DVP , center and WP and together with the NSDAP formed the government under Prime Minister Werner Küchenthal (DNVP). Franzen received the office of State Minister for the Interior, Culture and National Education. Important decisions of the previous Jasper government (SPD) were soon reversed. The Sieversche school reform was lifted just four days after taking office. Social democratic district directors, police officers, professors, school councilors and teachers were dismissed from civil service. Franzen responded to a two-day school strike in April 1931 following the dismissal of 26 teachers with a three-week ban on the SPD newspaper Braunschweiger Volksfreund . Franzen filled important offices with NSDAP and DNVP members. On January 1, 1931, he appointed the National Socialist and teacher Dietrich Klagges to the government council in the Ministry of Education. As a result of a perjury affair , Franzen resigned from his ministerial office on July 27, 1931. Klagges succeeded Franz on September 15, 1931 (and from 1933 to 1945 Braunschweig Prime Minister). Franzen resigned from the NSDAP, resigned from his Reichstag mandate and worked as a lawyer in Kiel. He had worked there since 1932 as a district judge and since 1937 as district court director.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Rosemarie Henning: Franzen, Anton, Dr. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 186-187 .
  2. ^ Rudolf Rietzler: "Kampf in der Nordmark". The rise of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein (1919–1928). Neumünster 1982, p. 431.
  3. The Free State of Braunschweig - State election 1927 (table)
  4. The Free State of Braunschweig - Events 1918–1933 (chronology)
  5. ^ Anton Franzen in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic