Anton Pfrogner

Anton Pfrogner

Anton Pfrogner (born September 28, 1886 in Klein Chotieschau ; † August 1, 1961 in Ottobrunn ) was a Sudeten German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Career in the Austro-Hungarian military

Pfrogner graduated from the cadet school in Vienna after attending primary and secondary school. As an ensign, Pfrogner entered the Kaiserschützen Regiment No. II in Bozen , where he was employed as an ensign , platoon commander , mountain guide , ski instructor, telegraph officer, pioneer officer and adjutant . In 1912 Pfrogner switched to Mountain Rifle Regiment No. 1 in Klagenfurt .

From 1914 Pfrogner was platoon and company commander and was injured shortly after the outbreak of the First World War on August 26, 1914 near Przemislany by a knee shot. In the spring of 1915 he was employed as a company and then as a battalion commander in a Tyrolean Kaiserjäger regiment . From the summer of 1915 took Pfrogner in combat operations on the Italian front part after he fell into Italian prisoner of war in 1916 he returned as a so-called Austauschinvalider for kuk Army as an intelligence officer in the General Staff Division of the 11th Imperial Army and Army Group of Hölzendorf the Austrian army back.

After the war ended, Pfrogner was dismissed from the army with the rank of captain with several awards.

Agriculture and Nazi agricultural policy

From 1919 Pfrogner worked in the agricultural cooperative sector, where he ultimately achieved the position of director of the Mies warehouse cooperative . In addition, Pfrogner was president of the cooperative association in the Sudetenland .

Pfrogner first became a member of the Federation of Farmers , switched to the German National Party and, from 1933, became involved in Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German home front , which from April 1935 was named Sudeten German Party . Pfrogner was at the Sudeten German Home Front as a peasant leader, main leader for agricultural policy and peasant issues until autumn 1938. Between May 1935 and the end of October 1938, Pfrogner was senator of the Czechoslovak National Assembly for the constituency of Pilsen . In addition, he chaired the Sudeten German nutritional status from spring 1938.

From autumn 1938 Pfrogner was chief of staff in the Sudeten German Freikorps . At the beginning of November 1938, Pfrogner switched to the NSDAP ( membership number 6,656,758). After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, Pfrogner became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag until the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945 for the Sudeten German areas. In the Sudetengau he initially headed the development staff of the Reich Labor Service (RAD). From January 1939 until the end of the war, Pfrogner was general labor leader for the Sudetenland-West area. During the Second World War Pfrogner was deployed in an Luftgau command as a leader of the RAD. Pfrogner was awarded the Knight's Cross for the War Merit Cross with Swords on December 21, 1944.

At the end of the war, Pfrogner was arrested and interned by soldiers of the US Army . After his release, Pfrogner moved to Austria.

After the Second World War

In Austria, Pfrogner was organizational manager of the Grazer Versicherung Nordstern between 1947 and 1952 . He also became the first leader of the Sudeten German Youth of the Graz group.

After moving to the Federal Republic of Germany , Pfrogner moved to Unterhaching . There he became a member of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft , headed the organization of the 1954 Sudeten German Day in Munich and then held a managerial position at the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft. Pfrogner died in the Ottobrunn hospital in early August 1961.

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

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 .
• Joachim Lilla: The representation of the “Reichsgau Sudetenland” and the “Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia” in the Grossdeutsche Reichstag. In: Bohemia . Journal of the history and culture of the Czech lands. Volume 40, Issue 2, 1999, p. 465.

Web links

• Anton Pfrogner in the database of members of the Reichstag