Anton Kreissl

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Anton Kreissl

Anton Kreißl (born February 14, 1895 in Hochlibin ; † June 28, 1945 in Rabstein ) was a Sudeten German lawyer, member of the Reichstag and SS leader , most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader .

Life

Kreißl was a son of the Hochlibiner landowner Anton Kreißl, who had sold his estate to the brewery entrepreneur Theodor Dreher in 1898. He attended high school in Tetschen until 1914 . Even during his school days he was a member of ethnic-oriented student organizations, which is why he was punished several times by the school authorities. After completing his school career, he studied law at the University of Prague until entering the army , where he joined the Constantia fraternity in 1918 (now the Sudetia fraternity in Munich), and in Innsbruck . Between 1915 and 1918 Kreißl participated as an officer of the Imperial Army on the part of Austria-Hungary in the First World War in part. From December 1915 to 1918 he was involved in frontline missions in Russia and Italy . After the end of the war he was a member of the Sudeten German People's Army. Kreißl founded the Sudeten German National Socialist Student Union in Prague and was its 1st chairman. Kreißl became a member of the DNSAP in 1919 and took on tasks at its management level. He continued his studies in the same year continued and received his doctorate in 1921 in Innsbruck for Dr. jur. Kreißl was then a trainee lawyer until 1926. He also founded the Sudeten German National Socialist Jurists' Association and was also its chairman until this organization was banned in autumn 1933. From 1931 he was on the city council of Bodenbach . After the DNSAP was banned in 1933, he lost all public offices. From 1926 to the beginning of October 1938, Kreißl worked as a lawyer in Bodenbach and Tetschen. Kreißl was a member of the SdP , but was expelled from the party in May 1936 for infidelity. After a few months, under pressure from the German Reich, he was accepted back into the party and from October 1936 belonged to the party's leadership council. He was also the main head of self-government there. He also headed the party's legal office. In addition, Kreißl was the representative of the NSDAP Reichshauptstelleleiter Hans Krebs in the Sudetenland. On August 23, 1938 he became mayor of Bodenbach.

After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, Kreißl became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the Sudeten German areas that had been added to the German Reich by the Munich Agreement . Until the spring of 1945, Kreißl was a member of the Reichstag of the NSDAP, as the SdP was already incorporated into the NSDAP in autumn 1938 . Kreißl now belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 6,600,842) and also the SS (membership number 313.996), in which he reached the rank of brigade leader in November 1942. In February 1939, Kreißl became Gauamtsleiter for local politics, Gauhauptmann in the Sudetenland, head of the Reichsgaudienststelle of the German Municipal Assembly and the Reichenberg Administrative Academy and from November 1940 Gauorganisationsleiter of the NSDAP. On January 30, 1943, he received the NSDAP's golden party badge . From September 1943 he was the successor to Friedrich-Karl Surén and headed the municipal department in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . He also became Heinrich Himmler's personal clerk . After the end of the war, Kreißl was interned in the Rabstein camp, where he was murdered in June 1945.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia . Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 462.
  • 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 .
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 170-171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joachim Lilla (editor): extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945 , Düsseldorf 2004, p. 592.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 338
  3. ^ Biography of Anton Kreißl ( Memento from April 12, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) on Axis Biographical Research (English)
  4. ↑ a b Joachim Lilla: The representation of the "Reichsgau Sudetenland" and the "Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia" in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag . In: Bohemia. Journal of History and Culture of the Bohemian Lands , Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 462
  5. ^ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Golden Party Badge and its honorary awards 1934-1944. Studies of the history of awards Volume 4. Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-931533-50-6 , p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Kreißl, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreissl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH High bib
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1945
Place of death Rabstein