Anton Mündler

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Anton Mündler

Anton Mündler (born June 5, 1896 in Neuburg an der Donau , † April 28, 1945 in Augsburg ) was a German judicial officer and National Socialist politician.

Life

After attending elementary and secondary school in his hometown, Mündler was a candidate for the middle legal service (court clerk). During the First World War he served in the Bavarian field artillery , was wounded in Flanders in 1917 and was then no longer fit for use in the war. Discharged from the army as a non-commissioned officer in November 1918 , Mündler took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic . Then he passed the examination for the middle legal service in 1920 and was employed as a court clerk until the end of September 1933, most recently as the judicial secretary.

Mündler became a member of the NSDAP in 1923 , which he rejoined after the party was banned in April 1925 ( membership number 1,592). In Neuburg an der Donau, initially until 1928, he was propaganda leader and local group leader, then until 1938 he was district or district leader for the party in Neuburg an der Donau . He was a Gau speaker and from 1931 to 1942 Gau inspector in Gau Swabia. In 1932, Mündler followed up with Hans Weber, who died in a motorcycle accident on October 12, 1932, in the Bavarian state parliament and was a member of this parliament for the following electoral term , which was already harmonized . After that, on October 1, 1933, he succeeded Karl Mayer, who had been ousted from office, and became 1st Mayor of Neuburg an der Donau and held this office until his death. In November 1933, Mündler entered the National Socialist Reichstag .

In mid-September 1942 he became the deputy of Gauleiter Karl Wahl for the NS- Gau Schwaben . Within the SS he rose to SS-Standartenführer in June 1944 . He committed on 28 April 1945 in Augsburg suicide as an American raiding party stormed the Augsburg command center in Riedinger bunker and Augsburg fell to the Americans.

literature

  • 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 .

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SURNAME Mündler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judicial officer and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1945
Place of death augsburg